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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-06-23
PAYING THE STATE EMPLOYEES.

HA1INO he 9lAlE EMF LO Lo.
The Vermont state board of control
is now wrestling with the rather diff
cult problem of adjusting salaries of
various employees of the state. Al
ready, as we understand the situation,
the wages of part of the employees
have been raised. Now the balance
want a similar adjustment. This in
spite of the fact that the cost of liv-
ing has been going down, steadily ever
though gradually. The cost of living
forms one of the bases for determine
tion whether wages should be ad-
vanced, reduced or maintained as they
are. If the cost Of living goes down,
it is reasonable to expect that there
would eventually be an adjustment OF
salaries and wages to correspond. II,
however, tie efficiency of the employees
should advance n%oticeably it would be
only reasonable to assume that the
emoluments Of the service would be
increased in spite of the lower cost
of living. Efficiency should furnish the
chief basis for the increase in salaries
or wages. Therefore, the state board
Of control will no doubt be influenced
considerably in reaching a decision on
salaries of state employees by the ad-
vance which the employees are making
in their work. In case a marked de-
gree of efficiency i. shown there ought
to be no hesitancy in increasing the
salaries, although, OF course, the finan-
cisl Of the state government
must be taken into consideration.
This matter of state finances is even
more important now than it was be-
fore the World war. Expenses are
mounting greatly through the addition
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-06-23
RANDOLPH

Col. Israel Converse chapter, Daugh-
ters of American Revolution, held their
annual meeting at the home of Mrs,
G. H. Temple on Wednesday afternoon,
June % with the usual business. The
old board Of officers was re reelected
and is as follows; Mrs. Flora M. II.
Temple, regent; Mrs. Alice Gay
Blanchard, vice regent; Abbie F. Clark,
secretary; Mrs. May G. Scott, treas
urer; Mrs. Winnie Steele, assistant
secretary; Mrs. May K. Mccullough,
registrar Mrs. l.. A. Parish, historian,
and Mrs. G. A. Chedel, chaplain. A
social hour followed and delicious re.
freshments were served by the hostess,
Mrs. Temple and her daughter.
The meeting of the district foreign
missionary society vas held here on
Wednesday with a good attendance,
Delegates began to arrive here on the
early trains, and were well provided
for by the people of the Methodist
church with whom the meeting was
held. There was an afternoon session
and also an evening session with an
attractive program, and the meeting
was pleasant and profitable. Mrs. II.
7. Clark of Northfeld, the wife OF the
pastor of the church, came as a dele
gate to the meeting on Wednesday.
A banner was thrown across the
street in the square on Wednesday,
bearing the lettering Randolph the
Center of Vermont July 4th." This
was to mark the celebration of the
! 4th, which is to be observed on that
day by a parade, airplane, ball game,
horse racing and other attractions. In
the evening a big ball will be held in
the Salisbury warehouse with a large
orchestra to furnish music.
Miss Elizabeth Holden has been in
Montpelier for a few days with friends.
Mrs. Chester Hood, who underwent a
serious operation at the sanatorium
recently and went TO her home in
, South Royalton, was obliged to re
turn for a second operation, which
she had this week.
Mrs. T. A. Bruce is making a good
recovery from her late surgical oper'
alton al the ~sanatorium and is ex
pected to improve steadily.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-06-23

of various departments and many
lines of activity. Vermont is not alone
in this respect. Each state has its
financial problems. The great state OF
Massachusetts is not free from them,
and Gov. Cox of that state is taking
steps to %curtail, or at least to pro-
hibit increase by refusing to sanction
the raise of salaries for many employees
of the state. If Massachusetts is TAX
ing such a stand it is important that
Vermont, too, should carefully scruti-
nize requests for more salaries and ex-
anime into the merits of the individ-
ual case. Merit of pronounced sort
should be back of any salary increases
at this time,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-06-23

Senatorial investigation of the
claims made by former Captain Ed
mund G. Chamberlain to performance
of remarkable deeds while ai%rplaining
on the western front in Europe on
July 2s, 1918, will not, it is expected,
develop much additional information
over and above what was brought out
by the courtmartial which dismissed
the young man from the main corps,
inasmuch as the Senate committee is
not likely to be in position to I'M
earth testimony which the courtmar-
tial was unable to get. However, the
new investigation may have the effect
of ending the discussion. 1t is partic'
ularly interesting to Vermont because
ex-Capt. Chamberlain is a descendant
of Vermont people.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-06-23
BETHEL

Miss Louise Austin, aged IS yearsis
the Oldest person in town at the pres.
ent time. She is a native OF this
place and her great-grsndfather, David
Stone. who was one of the earliest set
tiers in town and lived where Dana
! Shaw now lives, was seized and carried
to Montreal by British Indians during
the Revolution.
Mrs. Elizabeth Chamberlin reached
her SD anniversary yesterday.
Miss Louise bearing has returned
from a six weeks stay in Columbus,
10. Returning by way of Boston, she
was accompanied home by her niece,
Miss Ruth Burlingame.
Joseph Orticari was brought home
from the quarry yesterday with a
somewhat crushed foot, which DR.. o.
". Greene was called to treat. No
bones were broken.
Miss Dorothy Bliss of Cornwall, a
graduate of Middlebury college, has
been secured as teacher of Latin,
French and Spanish at the high school
for the coming year.
] A successful clinic was held at the
high school yesterday and today, more
than 20 boys and girls of the public
schools being operated on for the re-
moval of adenoids and diseased tonsils.
Drs. Greene, Burrell, Huntington and
Clifford attended. Miss Helen Sander
son was the chief nurse.
Miss Marion Fifeld has been very
seriously i'll with ivy poisoning, o n
tracted while picking field straw
berries.
Miss Gertrude Plunkett, the dis
trict nurse. who began work June i
will not return to Bethel from Troy,
In. Y, where she was called last week
bv an accident to her mother. Besides
a broken jaw and a broken leg, her
mother sustained a severe nervous
I shock and will need her daughters care
all summer.
Reginald Schoheld is working at the
Clifford pharmacy and Clarence Fair
child at the Arnold meat market.
Miss Ella Washburn is assisting
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-06-23

Orange county, VT, gets in line with
agricultural progress in the recent
move to engage a home demonstration
agent, to enlarge boys and girls club
work and to get the whole family in
terested in the work Of the organiza
ton. Carried on under the right lead
ership, these various moves ought to
prove to the undoubted benefit of Or,
ange county, especially of its agricul'
tural interests. Farmers who show
willingness to get the benefits of or
ganization and efficient leadership in
new movements are likely to gair
largely by the move
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-06-23

The recovery Of the international
polo trophy by a team made up OF
Americans in competition with a Brit
ish team makes no startling addition
to the triumphs of the United States.
but as a sporting proposition it has
its mild interest. The Americans,
among whom was J. Watson Webb,
the town representative of shelburne
in the Vermont legislature, seem to
have demonstrated their superiority in
no uncertain manner, and the cup
rightfully comes back to the United
States, TO be defended by some team
on the occasion of a challenge. The
polo players made a somewhat better
showing in this international match
than some other of our American rep
tresentatives have done this year in
different lines Of sport.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-06-23

The tentative declaration that the
liabilities of a Boston brokerage firm
NAV show as much as 100000 owing
to clients of the firm who entrusted
money TO the firm for investment and
never had it invested demonstrates
that it is wise to pick your company
through which to dc business as well
as to be careful of the nature of the
investment. There is a w~ide-open
chance for displacement of funds by
those who are, perhaps, not gullible
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-06-23

James Rowland Angel comes to the
presidency of Yale university under
most favorable conditions. He has an
almost unlimited field of e%ndeavor, a
splendid university plant, money in
reasonable plentitude, a faculty of
prominence and an alumni body filled
with loyalty to tn" institution. What
more could a college president ask
President Angel has the chance to rem
der great service tc the cause OF edu'
cation and to Yale.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-06-23

The Rutland high school pupils who
are alleged to have acquired 100 pei
cent because they had been enabled
through trickery to get hold of the ex'
animation questions in advance viii
find that they will be marked in life
for what they really are and not fol
what they seem IL be. It's a poor starr
by attempting to deceive your teach
ers, for in the long run the perpetra
tors deceive themselves.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-06-23

Four Russian roubles for an Ameri'
can cent d. not make a very enticine
appeal to investors in the United
States despite the fact that the rouble
used to be- valued at s0H cents in
United States gold. The present esti-
mate on the rouble shows what prof
cheney the soviets have in driving down
Russian values.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-06-23

A gang Of bandits, who intruded on
the privacy of a Burlington mans
summer home, Immediately ordered
the householder to the cellar. Which
order might have had its significance
providing the cellar had been better
stocked than it was. As it was, the
bandits were forced to take money and
a gold watch.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-06-23

-Four masked bandits Tuesday night
held up y. A. Woodbury., a farmer, and
grandson of the late x-Governor Ur'
ban A. Woodbury. Of Vermont, and for
two hours ransacked his house at Ap,
pletree Point, a few miles north OF
burlington. A watch and less than a
hundred dollars in money was OBJ
tanned. They made their getaway in
an automobile.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-06-23

Eighteen more persons went on the
Black record Wednesday. Which re-
minds that the remaining motorists
win have to touch up their deport
ment or their deficiency in car opera
ton.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-06-23

We have not yet received the drift
of that 1921 Vermont Senate boatride
on Lake Champlair. a few days ago
but we suspect it is coming in on the
political waves.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-06-23

The colleges, in most instances, were
less free in their distribution of hon
orary degrees this year; but Old Sol
il right there at the old stand pass
ing out high degree. to each and every
one.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-06-23

vermont's hay crop is showing the
blasting effects Of a whitening sun,
The 1921 total crop is likely to be far
below the average.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-06-23

but who are almost wholly ignorant
of the firm in which they seek to do
business.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-06-23

That sharp drop in the price OF Hour
this week ought to make the bread
rise in greater quantities.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-06-23

Mrs. Mary Quimby in the work at the
Arnold house.
Evening journal., 1921-05-25
CONTRACTS FOR
TWO SHIPYARDS
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The engine equipment will consist
of two water tube boilers built by
the Babcock and Wilcox Company,
of New York, and a geared turbine,
which will make the tanker of the
latest construction in every detail.
The boilers and engines will be ship
ped and installed here.
Actual work on the ship will not
start until the plans have been
drawn and the material assembled.
II is expected that the molds will be
laid down the first of July and that
the keel will be laid about the mid
die of the month.
An official of the Harlan Plant said
this morning that as almost enough
men are now employed at the plant
to build the tanker, very few new
hands will be hired. 1t is expected
that between so and rs ironworkers
will be taken on about the middle Of
July. Prospects are bright, how
ever, for securing additional con-
tracts from the Atlantic Refining
Company.
The plant is now also negotiating
for a contract to construct ten steel
railroad coaches. Securing Of this
work may mean the obtaining OF
more Of the same kind. The Loretta,
private car Of Charles NJ. Schwab,
chairman of the board of directors
of the Bethlehem Steel Company, is
now at the plant for a general over
hauling.
Evening journal., 1921-05-25
WILMINGTONIANS In
STERLING STORES co.

The Sterling Stores Company has
been Incorporated under the laws of
the State of Delaware with an au-
thorized capitalization of 100000.
Its officials are: President, A. n.
KINNEY; vice-president, David Full
ton Conover; secretary and treasurer,
Willard X. Handy; directors. w b.
Barba director, Girard National
Bank); S. Jones Phillips (president
American Road Machinery Com
pany) Samuel b. Eckert (vice-pres-
ident Sun Oil Company; Alexander
Dallas Thayer Cnsurance); +. Will
son Prichett (capitalist); A. n. Kim
mey (president); David Fulton Con-
over (vice-p e-presidenD. Its main Of
fees are in Philadelphia.
Allison n. KINNEY, president OF
the company. is well known in Will
mington, where he resided for many
years. Born in New Castle, his fam
ily moved to Wilmington while he
was still little and he attended and
graduated from the Wilmington High
School. For a short time after grad
uation he engaged in the real estate
business in Wilmington. AS an ac-
countant, Mr.. KINNEY has been as
sociated with many large enterprises,
including the Barber Asphalt Paving
Company and Hopes and Townsend,
and Charles T. Hires Company, all
of Philadelphia.
He served as general auditor and
director of the Acme Tea Company
and on its merging with the Amer
ican Stores Company he continued in
the same capacity with the latter or
ganization for several years. Mr..
KINNEY also managed for several
years, under power of attorney OF
the owners, the Hubbs Stores Com
pany. Inc. which have branches at
various suburban points outside OF
Philadelphia.
Mr.. KINNEY has been a deep stu
dent OF the theory OF chain store
merchandising and his practical ex-
lperience makes him one Of the fore
most authorities on the subject Mr..
KINNEY married Miss Ellen NJ.
Kirn. also a native OF Wilmington.
David Fulton Conover. vice presi-
dent Of the company. is widely
/ known in the insurance world in
/ Philadelphia. For many years he
was associated with the firm OF
Stokes. Packard. Houghton & Smith.
W. K. Handy, secretary and treas
urer Of the company. was born and
educated in Wilmington and for over
twelve years was associated with the
! Wilmington Office OF Armour 6
Company.
Evening journal., 1921-05-25
WOLCOTT SILENT
ON APPOINTMENT
sneclal to Nd Evening Jonrnal.

Special to The Evening Journal.
WASHINGTON. May Ex-senator
Josiah O. Wolcott Is maintaining
rigid silence regarding the offer OF
Governor Denney to make him chan
cellor OF Delaware. He refused to-
day to discuss the matter in any way.
He does not feel that he has an eth
ical right TO make a public state
ment until the offer is officially made
by the governor and is officially ac-
cepted or declined by himself.
It is understood that the Senator
likes the kind Of work that Governor
Denney has proposed that he shall
devote himself TO.
The Republican majority is so
great that an additional member OF
that party in the Senate viii make
little difference in the adoption OF
final policies. For this reason Sena-
tor Wolcott could quit his post here
without subjecting himself to the
charge by his party associates Of try
ing to weaken the Democratic organ
lzation in the upper house Of the
Congress.
Senator Wolcott is now busy on
work assigned to the Joint Congress
sional Commission for the codih-
cation Of the Federal statutes. He is
supervising this work at the solicit
tation Of Senator Curtis, OF Kan
sas.
Il have nothing TO say" was all
Senator Wolcott would vouchsafe.
Some Of the Senator's friends say
he will not in any event, be a candi-
date for reelection next year. In
that case they argue ne can well af-
ford to resign now and accept the
appointment Of Chancellor, rendered
by Governor Denney. As a member
Of the minority party he has little
or no patronage TO dispense and on
strictly party measures his vote
would be immaterial. Therefore.
why not quit while the cuttings
good argued some OF his friends
who are urging him to accept the
judicial offered him by the Delaware
executive.
Evening journal., 1921-05-25
WRIGHT, HUNTER
ONLY SURVIVORS

HOYLAKE. England. May 20.
Omitted Press) Fred J. Wright
and DR.. Paul Hunter were the only
Americans in the chase after the
british amateur golf title at the con-
clusion of the fourth round here to-
day
Bobby Jones, last of Americas
'big three" and Cyril Tolley, Brit
ish champion. started the day with
terrific jolts by being put out.
Jones went down before Allan j.
Graham. of the Royal Liverpool
Club. six up and FIVE to play. and
Tolley, the British title holder. was
forced out of the running by Beddar'
the Midland champion of 1919, three
up.
Captain "Bil" Fownes. who as.
sumed the role of an American hope
yesterday by defeating the U. S
champion, Chick Evans, also con
tributed to the day OF surprises by
falling down before his team mate.
Fred Wright, three up and two to
lay
DR.. Paul Hunter kept in the run
ming by making a casualty out OF the
British player, Pegler, 2 up.
John Ball. the veteran Britisher,
fecame England's hope for the title.
when he vanquished another Ameri-
can. ]. L. Douglas. the former
Princeton player. In an extra hole
match.
Evening journal., 1921-05-25
WANT TO ESTABLISH
AUTO PLANT IN CITY

The r r. r. Company, chartered
at Dover yesterday with 100000
authorized capital to build automo-
biles and automobile accessories,
hopes to establish a plant either in
Wilmington or Dover, according to
a statement today Of Henry Harrell.
one Of the corporators. He said an
effort will be made to interest Della
ware capitalists in the venture to
manufacture products Of Henry
williams, an inventor who is presi-
dent Of the company. IN addition to
Williams and Harrell, the corpo-
rators are Guy NJ. McCleary. Yer
non J. Swanson, William Richard
son, Raymond White. Edward Hills
from, and c. A. Belcher, all OF Hart
ford, Conn. The company has de-
signed four-cylinder car with air
cooled engine and with air-compres-
sion shock absorbers connecting the
frame and axles TO take the place
of springs. The company also has
designed a larger water-cooled en-
gine to use a mixture Of gasoline and
crude oil.
Evening journal., 1921-05-25
RICHARD PETERS, OLD
RAILROAD CHIEF, DEAD

Richard Peters. descendant OF a
famous Colonial family and socially
prominent. died last night in the
woman's College Hospital, Philadel-
phia.
Mr.. Peters was identified with
many railroad enterprises and was
active in the industrial developmen
Of Delaware county, Pa. He had
been IN several weeks with stomach
trouble.
Mr.. Peters was born in Atlanta,
Ca, November 1S4S. a son OF Rich
ard Peters, a railroad engineer who
had gone south with J. Edgar
Thomson, of Philadelphia, about
1910. President Grant appointed him
commissioner from Georgia to the
Centennial Exposition in Philadel-
phia in 1875.
He became associated with Samuel
NJ. FELTON, in an iron business in
Chester, and was associated with
other industrial enterprises in Della
ware county. At one time he was
president of the old Philadelphia
Wilmington and Baltimore road.
Two sons and three daughters sur
vive Mr.. Peters.
Evening journal., 1921-05-25

INTEREST IN
new JUDGES
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to act on the judicial appointments.
possibly on June, Is, Not word
has been uttered by these Salisbury
factionalists to question the recog-
nized legal ability of Senator VOL
colt and his high qualifications to
III the office of chancellor, but the
opposition they are seeking to fos-
ter is on partisan and political
grounds only.
1t is significant in this connection
that former Senator Willard sauls-
bury, who was ousted from control
of the Democratic party by the fol-
lowers of Senator Wolcott. came out
in "A statement in which he made no
attempt to conceal his resentment
of the appointment OF Senator VOL
colt as chancellor.
Friends OF Senator Wolcott today
said the attempt of Salisbury fol-
lowers to inject partisan and fac.
tional politics into the confirmation
of Mr.. Wolcott as chancellor would
/ fail as other drivers of the Sauls-
bury faithful" against Wolcott
have failed. They said they hac
no doubt but that he will be con.
hrmed by the Senate along with the
other judicial appointments made by
the Governor.
II anything. the salisbury opposi-
tion will strengthen sentiment for
Wolcott, it was predicted today. 1t
Is known that Senator Wolcott con-
suited some Of his close personal
friends before deciding to accept the
appointment as chancellor
Governor Denney has given no in
timation as to whom he will appoint
United States Senator to succeed
Senator Wolcott, although those
dealing in political speculation are
mentioning long list of names.
Naturally friends OF Chancellor
Curtis and Judges Boyce and Conrad
are disappointed because they were
not reappointed to the bench by the
Governor. 1t is admitted the Gov
ernor has a right to appoint whom
he desires. and it is pointed out tina
/ his selections are in on sense a re
Election on the judges whom he die
not reappoint.
As was set forth yesterday, IN,
Governor evidently desired to havl
younger men on the bench.
Evening journal., 1921-05-25
PICKPOCKET
HELD FOR COURT

Tesdfying in Municipal Court this
morning against Joseph johnson,
Negro, charged with attempting to
pick his pocket at the circus
grounds last Saturday. William J.
Kyle. a white man. said the Negro
had a hole cut in the lining Of his
coat through which he could poke
his hand and pick a pocket while it
appeared that he had his hands in
his pockets.
Kyle said that he was in the side
show at the circus and had a small
boy in his arms when he felt a mans
hand leasing" in his back pocket.
He turned swiftly around when he
accused Johnson Of attempting to
rob him. The Negro. he said, de-
clared. Boss, I amt got your
pocketbook," at the same time
showing his hand through the hole
in his pocket, according to KyIe's
testimony.
Judge Hastings held johnson in.
1000 bail for court James Sauls-
bury represented the Negro.
Evening journal., 1921-05-25

emphasize this purpose. Frederick
w. Carpenter. executive engineer of
the commission, has been industri-
ously collecting the names of those
Delaware men who made the su-
preme sacrifice. These names will
be placed on an appropriate tablet,
which will be given a prominent po-
sition on the viaduct.
Mr.. Carpenters chief fear is that
the name of some Delaware service
man who died for his country and
State inadvertently may be omitted.
He asks that all such names be sent
to him, care of the Washington
Street Bridge Commission, Public
Building.