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Dynamite Blast Sends Blazing EN-
bers Over Village--Echo Inn In
Ruins Church Saved

The historic little village Of East Charleston. ~
miles from Newport Is practically wiped out AZ tho
result Of Sloo0o0 fire which leveed a score If
buildings and deprived fifteen families Of their
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1921-06-09
WHY AUTOMOBILE ADVERTISERS
CHOSE THE CALED0NLAN.RECORD

The most discriminating buyer Of adyer-
tising In the country today rs the automobile
dealer He does not buy space simply To spend
money. Tie buys 10 get service and results.
that's Why Nortnern Vermont automobile
dealers chose almost unanimously the Caledon-
ian-Reeord for the advertising OF their ears at
the recent Newport Automobile show.
Here are the comparative figures auto
mobile advertising Of the Newport Automobile
show
Caledonian- Record 3.so2 inches display ad-
,ertising. =
Other papers 355 inches display ad,ertising.
Making 5-2iI inches difference in favor of
the Caledonian- Record.
Why did the automobile dealers chose al
most exclusively. the Caledonian- Record. the
only daily newspaper In Northeastern Vermont,
a. their advertising medam. Here are the
sons.
Because the Caledonian- Record reaches the
greatest purchasing power IN Northeastern Yer
mont
Because the reader Of the daily paper shows
be- j. progressive and Wlde-awake and wants
news and advertising that l. timed 10 the minute.
Because the automobile dealer, as in fact
every enterprislRg merchant and salesman,
wants u reach the persos who y progressive
eHough % want 10 read news while il Il news,
and advertising that Is timely and does not take
q week to hatch cut"
AtN8A@t fNttN aMkuAAANAG thAh anu AA*f~
chant wants to reach the quality" person and
he knows that the readers of the Caled0nian-
Record arr the quality class Of Northeastern
Vermont.
Tie Boston Transcript has a circulation Of
about @2uo0. hat lts readers represent the great
est huying power reached by any newspaper IN
the Hited States. That's Why the Boston Tran
script il the greatest advertising medium IN Bos-
ton. Tie Caledonian-kecord reaches the same
comparative class Of buyers in Northeastern
Vermont.
If sou want 10 sell goods you want to talk
- the person who has the money to buy them.
The automobile dealers voted almost ioo per
cent that the Caledonian- Record reaches the
persons who have the dollars. The crowd Of
lo.Ue0 visitors at the Newport show showed that
the Caledonian-R Record reached the people.
Follow tie tip given you by the automobile
dealer and pL. your advertising, not only with
the paper that has the largest circulation m
Northeastern Vermont. but the paper that has
q equality" circulation aS well. That paper Nv
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The New York herald., 1921-10-02

O. gCredV Victims Own Essnha t p

But the physician who believes in cutting
off all drugs from tAe patient looks out more
hopefully He says both body and nervous
system can be built up again. restored to
normal health by proper food, by admirable
conditions and by reawakening the soul!
To cause the patient to hope for a cure is
the first step to get him to iUiI a cure Is
the whole distance
How widespread the drug habit is few
realize A society woman who established a
business address in this city for Offering an
English "cure" for the drug habit has an
nounced as a result of her experience that
three-fourths OF society uses some kind of
drug 1t Is possible that coming into such
close contact with addicts as she did caused
her to exaggerate. Her interest was as
much philanthropical as business; that Is.
no sufferer was refused the remedy II he
could not pay for II. The results of this
business philanthropy seemed encouraging
for time. The remedy was a taperng off
process, and many addcts, in their first
relief testified to its efficacy The fame OF
the remedy spread.
A faithful believer in this remedy was a
clever woman who had been cured by II, and
she offered to take charge of the Office in
sort of philanthropic way. seeing and talking
with the poor creatures who came there for
relief She could talk to them understand
ingly because she made no secret but rather
gloried in the statement that she had her
self been cured.
A year passed, and her work OF devotion,
for IL was really this, continued with ad-
mirable results. Then one morning the
business clerks connected with the place
found her in a state Of coma on the floor Of
the waiting room. She had drained off bottle
after bottle of the remedy in order to get
the full eject Of her favorte drug The
woman did not die as it was feared at first
she must but she is still i'm an institution.
Dr. Simon's office at Police Headquarters
shows a second rogues' gallery Of portraits
OF venders who have been stirred out OF their
nests by the countrywide search for them,
inaugurated by this active official. who de-
votes his life TO their discovery and the de-
struction Of their business From Seattle TO
the borders of Mexico they are being hunted
down, and some queer incidents result from
the relentless search. Under the Mann act.
for instance the Federal officers hunted the
country over for vender named silver
who when they last heard OF him, had been
seen at work in Calgary. lie slipped through
theirs meshes. when DR.. Smon's aids took
up the search again they found him. Silver,
under another name, is in Leavenworth
prison working out a three year term for
selling forbidden drugs after paying fine
of 81 900 to the Government.
In the Deputy Commissioners office Is to
The New York herald., 1921-10-02
Note from DR.. MacCracken

" ONCERNING my interview in last
Sundays magazine. I am afraid that
- my enthusiasm for the womans
college may have led me not to exerciso
enough care in a few Of the details. Nav
insert these few corrections:
Underwood College and the Woman's Col
iege at Rutgers are traceable TO the attitude
OF the women's colleges in general. rather
than to Vassar in particular, in restricting
their numbers. Vassar should have been
cited merely an Illustration.
In the same way. Vassar did not take tho
lead In organizing the Conference of Four
Colleges. except that II was organized at
Nassar.
The decision on the debate az Colgate was
not unanimous. but two to one One OF the
judges explained that Vassar was better IN
argument but not so good in form.
There was no intention to draw contrast
between employment agencies at womens
colleges as compared to the mems.
II was not six vassar graduates but six
members Of the Vassar faculty who declined
elections TO deanships in the last year.
The New York herald., 1921-10-02
wv the New Law Against Habit Forming Drugs Is Working

yielded to the officers a quantity of dope
worth in the present state of the market
where opium is selling at $50 a pound
almost a million dollars.
A haggard, anemic youth Of the "stoo
pigeon" variety was boasting the other day
of what he had done the night before in un-
covering a nest of heroin. His talk was a
mixture of profanity and lies and facts
which had to be extricated from the others
1t began with a wall about his own condi
ton:
"Snce I'm off it, / can't eat nothin'--
couldn't eat chicken If you give 1t to me.
I'm always a-coughing and | spit up green
stuff half the time. But I'm Off the dope
Want to know what done last night? Say,
I'm the feler, nobody else could done It
Took the cops right to the nest
"On the corner round here by the Bow
cry fellow comes up to me with the high
sign. Got it?' asks l. Hell. no. says he;
think I'm taking chances?'
"He leads me up 10 a cellar on East 10th
street. where Italian takes me, and ne
paws my fare back to Seventy-sixth street
There another guy takes willie's little hand
and up we goes to The Bronx. An old
woman-looks like she must be S0-she has
the stuff, and I buys a little card box OF
heroin for 81.
They was two or three others waitin' tin
/ come. They hadn't got the 50. Neither
did have IT, but we all chips in and shares
the box after she produced II. She chased
us right out when we got it, and the others
shifted theirs right away. Me; I bring my
share down to the boss"
The scene the dealer. the purchaser.
every item of this hidden traffic has been
described by no less a writer than Charles
Dickens. Most of us have sb Iddered over
his description in The Mystery of Edwin
brood"
The New York herald., 1921-10-02

will pronounce some formula that will cure
them. Whatever he advises these amenable
unfortunates will do. try to do, which Is
not the same thing. If he practised a black
art which still could cure them there is no
power in reason or religion that would keep
them from trying it.
And they are aware-these hopeless ones
when they put themselves in his power, that
they are deliberately shutting off their
source of supply of the stuff that keeps
them alive. They realize that they will be
given what an unhappy bit Of slang calls
1.-The cold turkey treatment" This means
that they will have to tell where they got
their dope" which is to be taken from them
to the least tiny atom. No tapering off proc
ess under the new law. Who can realize
the courage these victims of drug display
as they trail into DR.. simon's office?
1t is the courage of despair.
In front of the Commissioner sat the other
day a good looking Irish woman, we'll
dressed healthy in appearance except Cor
her eyes. the teltale eyes of the drug fend.
She had come to Pelice Headquarters of
her own volition. Here is the story she
told
Il am over thirty and come from Ireland
three years ago. 1t was easy for me to get
work as chambermaid in a big hotel where
the wage was good. l sent money back to
the folks every fortnight. Then they give
me charge of the linen room and the wage
was more. / kept myself to myself and held
my speech on all the gossip round me. /
was getting along fine.
"Then with the damp towels and so got
rheumatism. / ached terrible and nothing
helped. One of the girls says she could
get me something that would cure me aches.
but a little of 1t cost SO. says I'll have it
should it cost $780, Next day she brought
me a wee phial with some white powder,
half inch of 1t. I took II quick and l was
new girl The stuff worked like magic. I
asked for more and she brought it. For a
year / used 1t. and It costing me SO day,
more than me wage.
"The time wasn't long when the dose give
me no more help than so much sugar. and
says / to the girl What's happened to me
medcne? She says I need a bigger dose,
but to get IL must come along of her. ]
went quick; j had gone anywhere. my
trouble was so deep.
"She takes me to the man she says she's
living with, and with that she says she amt
married. i could see how far l had come
when this made no difference. Once was
q good girl. am a good girl now. God
knows 1 am
She began to cry bitterly, but with long,
slowly dropping tears.
You believe me. don't you. Mister? I
could go back to ireland il I was free of
The New York herald., 1921-10-02

be seen also a very interesting exhibit of
narcotic drugs. Beginning with the father
of them all, opium, the poppy flower Is
shown, then the gum that 1t exudes in
various raw and prepared forms. glance
at these exhibits quickly clears up some
errors that are general in the minds of
people. From the poppy flower and seed
come gum opium leaf and mud. shown IN
its highest form prepared for an ex-
elusive market to the yen shea, or scrapings
from the bowls of pipes. Then comes NOR
phine. opium also. in cubes and powders. and
lastly heroin. which Is diacetlylmorphine
hydrochlorate. This is the favorite dope of
the addict and the chief dependence of the
street vender because 1t is easily concealed
and can be snuffed by the nose. 1t Is not
by-product as many persons mistakenly
think, but real opium.
Cocaine is another product. 1t comes
from the cocoa leaf and the commercial
product depends on the supply from South
America. This produce, mainly prepared In
Germany is cocain hydrochloric. Cocaine is
not habit forming, but morphine and heroin
are These two drugs in the language of
the addict are necessities, while cocaine Is
luxury. AS morphine is always used hypo-
derrnically II Is not so easily handled as
heroin. whence the popularity of the latter
form Of the opium drug.
Cannotis Indies Gust TO finish the lesson)
a
opium il is called hasheesh. Cocaine also Is
generally mixture having heron added
70 IL for effect.
Heroin then Is the most popular narcotic.
although II Is more dangerous than NOR
phine because OF its powerful toxic effect.
II is the cheapest too. 50 will provide
sufficient quantity for a beginner and from
that up TO So as the quantity has TO be in
creased is all his dope will cost him day.
Very long hours are a rule nova day
in the narcotic bureau at Police Headduar-
ters and DR.. Simon. in charge. who. II
should be remembered, receives no compen-
satlon for his services, is often at his Office
all day long and frequently is kept there
until 2 A. M. He is indefatigable in run
ming down the venders and their victims
and is equally busy in discovering the dis
tributing sources of the poison in the
European markets, on which these venders
big and little depend for supplies.
The New York herald., 1921-10-02
By WILLIS STEEL.

r TOW are habits formed? AT o'clock
H one morning you wake up unae-
= countably from a sound sleep.
You're restless and to settle your nerves
you light and smoke cigarette.
That's the start. You don't believe it?
Listen. Next morning you hear the clock
strike 2. You say to yourself: Is this
going to be a regular thing? Without wait
ing for the answer you automatically start
for a cigarette, but you pull yourself up
and the following colloquy ensues:
"I don't want a cigarette" Something or
somebody asserts that you do. "Pm not
going to form habit Of smoking in the
middle of the night" you say with an air
of finality. The answer to this is a jeer
Form habit by smoking one two
cigarettes. Are You such weakling?
Can't you indulge an innocent craving once
in a while?"
OF course you can and you smoke. In a
week, in two weeks, you wake up regularly
at A. NJ. and smoke a cigarette, or two
cigarettes. or three cigarettes.
It's as easy as that-this habit business.
The New York herald., 1921-10-02
Drug Addiction Is Old
As China's Civilization

This article isn't being written on q
wager, but the assertion was made when it
was contemplated that nobody at this late
day could write a story about drug addcts
that would be read.
The subject is certainly old enough. II
is as old as opium and that is as old as
China, and China boasts of the Oldest civil
ization of the world.
Drug addiction has been written about ad
nauseam. De Quinceys claim on us rests
principally on his Confessions of an Opium
Eater but while everybody knows about
It few read 1t. De Quincy is an eloquent,
powerful writer; he Is. in fact, too eloquent
he knows too many words. his sentences are
too long. He fatigues the ordinary mind:
at least he fatigues this ordinary mind.
But the confessions of the poor devils
who are to-day In the ruthless grasp of that
biggest OF all the devils opium, are simple;
they tell OF their agonizing struggles to
free themselves In poor, one syllable words,
Their stories are very often lying stories
but they mix up the truth in them too.
And the listener. II he has any Judgment of
what is true and false, soon is able to dis
criminate.
For more than a month a new drug law
has been working. Under IL addicts, dis
covered or confessed. are arrested or placed
under surveillance by the Police Depart
ment In charge of DIR. Carleton Simon,
officially commissioner, sent to q public hos
pital or to an institution more or less penal
according to circumstances and Dr. Smon's
decision. Seven hundred of these cases have
been passed on by him in thirty days. He
shoulders a terrible responsibility.
Not all the poor devils are forcibly brought
before him. Many come'of their own accord,
hoping, but almost without hope. that he
The New York herald., 1921-10-02
Work of Stool Pigeon
In Ferreting Opium Nests

The stool pigeon" has to be depended on
unfortunately, but as IL has always been so
will 1t always be In these sordld purlieus
of detestable crime. Through such chan
mel came vague information of a small fiat
in Carroll street, Brooklyn, which was raded
recently. Furnished with table. chairs. a
broken looking glass. &c. this fiat yet
The New York herald., 1921-10-02

the stuff and swear it to me old mother!
"The man she took me to done no work,
but he sold heroin to poor folks like me-
And when he asked me SO for little more
than my first dose I paid 1t quick. Six dol
lars a day il has been costing me since and
all me savings out of the Enigrant Bank
is gone he's got 'em. Now / amt able to
get so much money-but I must have me
medicinel I've scraped and borrowed and
contrived till see that 10 get tho money
would steal. And me an honest girl"
There Is but One Gre:
One Only. Says DR.. Simon
She wiped her eyes as DR.. Simon said
''One person, and one only can cure you"
"Who is it, Mister? | would take any
thing, do anything"
That person is yourself You have to
will to cure yourself, and you can do it if
you will try hard enough"
The woman looked dazed and began to
ask il there was no medicine or treatment.
Finally the truth broke through her
troubled understanding and she clasped her
hands imploringly, begging to be told more
The Commissioner asked her If she was a
Catholic, and she answered yes.
II will send for the priest in headquarters
who tries to comfort and help the people Of
your religion. You will talk to him and tell
Nun all you nave tOlu me- ana iloTe. linen
he will bring you back to me and / shall
have decided where to send you. Oh not
to an institution (for she had looked at him
in terror). to people who will be your friends
and who will do all in their power TO help
you in your fight For il is your fight
You have to conquer yourself"
There's the rub. as Hamlet said, who had
little will himself. 1t is precisely the Will
that narcotic drugs attack. drug hend
has no will: he cannot exert what he hasn't
got In short a time as to be almost
incredible the drug user loses all control or
his appetites. His will dsintegrates. cor
roded by opium. If II ever had a firm tex
ture. in a few months of indulgence, some
times in few weeks that will becomes as
impalpable as a fine dust blown by the
lightest breeze of desire.
The death of the will precedes that OF
the body, and before the latter gives outer
signs of breaking down il joins the senses
i'm demanding the accustomed drug. This
demand is a thousand times more insistent
than the craving of whisley soaked body
for its stimulant.
Drug hends therefore are sick in double
sense. Their bodies are sick, their nerves
are sick unto death. What will tho cold
turkey" treatment do for them except to
lead them by an unexamped calvary to a
horrible DEATH longer drawn out more
agonzing than cruchxion?
The New York herald., 1921-10-02
There Is but One Gre:
One Only. Says DR.. Simon

She wiped her eyes as DR.. Simon said:
"One person, and one only. can cure you."
"Who is It. Mister? / would take any
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-10-14
Mhite Rohsd Men Fired on

Durant, Several shots were
fired last Friday between grounp OF
officers composed Of Sheriff Taylor OF
Bryan county and three deputies and
a band of nine masked white robed
men whom the officers discovered an
a pasture north of the city. None Of
the officers was injured. The roDec
men fed after the shooting and sher.
iff Taylor said he believed none o.
them mad been wounded. The sheriff
declared he would not permit meetings
of masked men.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-10-14
SECRET ORDER PROBE SOUGHT
Georgia Representative Wants to See
Rituals and Hear oaths

washington-Cong is asked to
investigate the Masons, Knights OF Col.
umbus and other secret orders In q
sensational resolution introduced In the
house Friday by Representative UP
shaw of Georgia.
Declaring that special Investigation
of tie Ku Klux Khan would be unjust,
Upghaw demands congress turn the
spotlight on the oaths and rituals and
other secret workings Of all secret or.
CARNATIONS existing in the United
States.
In his resolution he asks that con.
gress procure from the secretary OF
state in each state the name of every
secret organization and summon the
chief official OF each OF these organ.
izations before special investigating
committee TO "giye account Of theiI
aims and purposes, the funds collected
and expended and to disclose the oaths
and rituals Of the secret organization
to the eyes of congress and the liberty
loving people of this republic"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-10-14
Monterey,s Ostrich Tree.

Montgomery, CAL, is as proud Of Its
ostrich tree as residents OF the lower
Hudson valley are of Anthony's nose.
This celebrated curiosity is formed OF
two coast expresses, SO that their
foliage seems to be that Of one tree;
and the shape of 1t, together with the
peculiar angle at which the two trunks
are placed, gives the silhouette OF
huge and earnest ostrich stalking
along shore. The brave old trees that
make the picture are alone on barren
tongue Of beach running out into
the breakwaters of the Pacific.