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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-12-13


1921:
Patients in house Dec. /, 1920, ~
Patients in house Dec. L, 1921, is
Number Of patients admitted ). 800
Number of patients discharged 7. 70S
Number of births .......... 81
Number of deaths .......... A
Number of operations ....... 1926
Number of days. nursing ...... 7o74
Number of days free nursing ba-
bies ...... 905
Number of days free nursing city 3ss
Number of days free nursing to-
tai ........... 1918
Cash received, board Of patients
and miscellaneous receipts $4,000. Sc
Cash paid out, to treasurer and
for ineidentals . $l9,604 56
Ainsworth x-Ray Service:
Number Of Mays ....... lis
Cash on hand Dec. |, 1920. $IS.69
Received ..........s... 30l.To
Paid out -............ S2l7 %
Cash on hand Dee. !, 1921, . 1925
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-26

The statement Of the commission az
made public by Commissioner Glen Van
Auken follows:
THE commission observes the argu-
ment made by the city of Indianapolis
in the brief filed by the corporation coun-
sci, as to its financial inability to meet
at this time an increase in the fire hy-
drant rentals. A careful weighing Of the
matters of this cause makes it manifest
that it would be unjust to shift from the
community as a whole on to the private
consumers, that part Of the burden that
should be charged to fire protection
service.
The necessity for increases in rates is
largely attributed to an increase of $685.
III in local taxes in the last year. The
city may not on the one hand, partici-
pate in levying approximately $237 per
day additional burden on such a public
service institution and, on the other hand,
plead immunity from the effects Of these
increased operating costs.
The tax burden is illustrated by the
fact that it requires approximately one
fifth of petitioners total revenues to
meet It's taxes. In other words, one dol
lar Of every five paid in rates by con-
sumer is Immediately paid out by the
company in taxes"
The increased water rates become ef-
fective April L
Following is the official schedule of
the metered rates.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-26
WORLDS RECORD
SET BY AMERICA
MDIVORCEEV EVIL'

WASHINGTON. March 26-Sin runs
rampant IN the United States today ana
American women must use their vote TO
check 1t, according to the quarterly re-
view of the international Reform Bureau
published today.
Equal suffrage challenges the women
OF America to equal efforts with men
for the more strenuous bills relating to
clean movies and morphia smuggling and
divorce reform and gambling and law en-
forcement," declares the quarterly re-
view.
The divorce evil in the United States
IS spreading rapidly, the review states.
and surpasses that Of Japan. whose rec
ord was supposed to be the worst In the
world"
The review presents study Of divorce
statistics compiled from the latest avail
able figures by Rev. Francis Minor
Moody, which shows that in 1916
twenty four American States, ranging
from Vermont, at 153 divorces per 10O,-
900 population, to Nevada, at 652. had a
divorce rate higher than was ever known
in Japan. whose record was supposed to
be the worst in the world"
total Of thirty-twO American States
had a higher divorce rate than Japan.
the review continues, and the rate for all
States was 1876 per 100000 net pOpula-
ton, and 112 per 100000 total population" +"
which exceeded the japanese rate of 100.
"Japan's worst ratio Of divorces to
marriages was one divorce to 7.65 mar
riages In 19OS,' says the review. "The
japanese ratio for 1916 was one divorce
to T19 marriages. Seventeen of our States
had ratios ranging from 1 to 6.93 in Kan
sas to l to la in Nevada. Besides these
seventeen we note that the States of IL
linOis and Michigan ran worse than ia
pans best, with ratios of ! to 7.26 and
to 7.J3, respectively.
"a study of the ratios of divorces and
marriages in the counties Of the United
States shows that more than 620 coun-
ties had a higher ratio of divorces 70
marriages than that in Japan for the
year 1916. Fifty seven Of these counties
had more than one divorce to every three
marriages. Thirteen Of the seventeen had
more than one divorce to every two mar
riages. And six more of the fifty seven
had more divorces than marriages"
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-26
Gen. Bad Weather
Is MObiLizing for
SWeeping Attack

WASHINGTON. March 26.-General Bad
Weather is mobilizing his forces for a
sweeping attack on nearly all fronts ~
the United States against the proposed
march Of springs brilliant battalious on
Easter Sunday. The forecastcr, acting $
war correspondent, predicts victory for
the hosts Of Bad Weather.
Several skirmishes have already oc-
cured and General Weather drove the
hosts Of Easter tlnery 10 shelter.
on Easter Sunday he viii attack with
his storm troops. composed Of thunder
showers, heavy rains and strong winds.
This attack will be mot with rain coats
and umbrellas, springs general stated.
General bad weather for all parts Of
the country for tonight and Sunday Is
the forecast. Practically every part of
the country viii have rain the report
stated. Generally cold weather is In
prospect for Sunday afternoon and night
In some OF the northern states the rain
Will turn into snow. the report said
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-26
U. S. May Ask Dissolution
of Third Internationale
as Soviet Trade Condition

ate as the world policy between the
Russian communist party, the third or
communist internationale and the official
soviet administration, because of the
system of 'interlOcking directorates' com
mon to all three
RADICAL MEMBERS
OF INTERNATIONALLY.
Lenin, Trotski Kalinin ZinOvief Buck
harin and many other officials high in
the soviet government are also officers
Of the Third Internationale, State De-
partment reports indicate and some of
the most radical principles of the radical
secession were made by them.
IF you will help us" said Lenin ac-
cording to the State Department transla-
tion of the proceedings then no mental
exercises or guesSes with respect to what
cannot be known and what no one can
know viii prevent us from accomplishing
our task and this task will be that of
leading on to the victory of the world
revolution and to the establishment of
an international proletarian soviet re-
public"
The State Department has announced
receipt of confirmation of Lenin's recent
speech in which he stated that the time
had come for. modification of Bolshevist
policies, but Secretary Hughes is not
convinced. Since practically the sole pur-
pose of the Third Internationale, accord
ing to the departments belief, is the
promotion of ideas which this Govern
ment finds Objectionable, no better proof
Of new policy could be given by Lenin
than the dispersal of this organization
Because of the assertion in Kalinin's
message to President Harding that the
BolsheviSt government has no desire to
interfere in the internal affairs of the
United States, it was expected that the
next communication from Moscow would
offer evidence in contradiction of reports
that an active pEAAagsnda is being car
riad ~, II, fhfs c<z{F@H2FkRA -
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-26

WASHINGTON, March 26.-Dissolution
of the Third Internationale. and recall
of the agents of that organization in this
and other countries, may be demanded
by the United States as one of the con-
ditionS to resumption of trade with
soviet Russia, it was learned today.
With the reply of Secretary Hughes to
the soviet appeal on its way to Moscow,
official Washington figuratively sat down
to await Lenin's answer, though State
Department officials devoted themselves
to a study of just what might constitute
the convincing evidence" of fundamental
changes in Russian policy which the
American government deems essential to
the establishment of trade relations
Suppression of the Third Internationale
has been suggested to Secretary Hughes
as one of the terms this government
should insist on as an evidence of good
faith, and it is understood that the sug
gestiOn is receiving serious consideration.
1t is argued that the second congress
of the Third Internationale held in Mos
COW last summer proclaimed the doe
trine of world wide propaganda to bring
about a world revolution" and conse-
quent destruction of the capitalistic class,
and that so far as can be learned, this
is still the chief object of the organ
lZation.
Though Lenin has asserted that the
Third Internationale is not the soviet
government, State Department officials
insist they are the same for all practical
purposes. A hitherto unpublished Off
cial report dealing with this subject,
which is now on file at the department,
says:
"The program of the Russian com
munlst party is one OF worlG revolution
and the communist inteEnationale is
avowedly the directing and coordinating
center of an international revolutionary
movement to ESTABLISH rld Soviet
Renuhiic' Tk A imE19 s u s& &xdifferenti-
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-26

Only on the lower East Side of New
York do the houses of Capulet and Mon
tagu survive There they do not fight
by the book of arithmetic. If you but
bite your thumb at an uphOlder of Your
opposing house you have work cut out
for your steel On Broadway yOu may
drag your man along a dozen blocks by
his nose. and he will only bawl for the
watch but in the domain of the East
Side Tybalts and MeTcutios you must OBJ
serve the niceties of department to the
wink of an eyelash and to an inch of ell
bow room at the bar when its patrons
include foes of your house and kin.
SO. when Eddie McManus. known to
the Capulets as, Cork McManus. drifted
into Dutch Mikes for a stein OF beer,
and came upon bunch of Montagus
making merry with the suds. ne began
to observe the strictest parliamentary
rules. Courtesy forbade his leaving the
saloon with his thirst unsaked; cant on
steered him to a place at the bar where
the mirror supplied the cognizance Of the
enemy's movements that his Indifferent
gaze seemed to disdain; experience whis
pered to him that the finger of trouble
would be busy among the chatterng
stems at Dutch Mikes that night. Close
by his side drew Brick Cleary, his Mer-
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-26
E. r. BERGDOLL
MAKES APPEAL
Stacker Taken From L. S,
Prison to Court in Kansas
City.

\ KANSAS CITY. Kan, March %
CARRIED in regulator Army prison uni
form, Erwin R. Be BergdO1. wealthy Phila-
delphia draft evader, appeared today be
fore Federal Judge John e. Pollock in a
final legal battle to escape serving a four
year prison term. Bergdoll was brought
here to testify in his own behalf at the
habeas corpus proceedings. He appeared
very detected
BergdOlPs attorneys are attempting to
obtain his release on technical grounds.
His attorneys charged that he never was
legally notified OF his drafting. The
Government contends one summons was
acknowledged by members of BergdolTs
family and a plea Of extension was
granted.
! he prisoner was brought here from the
military garrison at TT. LeavenWOrth by
a commissioned officer and three military
guards
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-26
4 MEN INJURED
IN VIRGINIA AVE.
TROLLEY CRASH
MOtOrman's Shouted Warn.
ing Too Late to Save
Passengers.

Four men were severely injured at
12 40 o'clock this afternoon when out
bound South East street car No S5S
crashed into the rear of outbound Shelby
street car No. S15 in Virginia avenue at
a point just southeast of the elevated
tracks.
The injured:
BERNARD LOGAN, SO. 1926 Pleasant
street. cash in right leg above the knee.
FRANK WILMOTH. IS, 1926 Kelly
street, crushed about the body, legs badly
bruised possible internal injuries.
WILLIAM SPITCFATM, -, 3j11 Pros
pect street, right hand cut, and right
side crushed, some of right ribs may be
crushed,
CHARLES RAPERT. 90, $40 Kansas
street. badly bruised about the face.
All were taken to their homes in auto
mobiles.
The shelby car had stopped to take on
passengers, the police were told. The
South East ear. with Motorman II. c.
Fisher Gl0 South Meridian street, at the
controller, followed it at a smart speed.
When within a Jew feet of the Shelby
Car, Fisher found that he could not stop
his car and shouted to the passengers on
the back platform Of the Shelby car to
jump. Before any one could move the
crash come, according to Ward E. Jones,
322 Garfield avenue, passenger en- the
shelby car.
The impact crushed in the rear rail Of
the Shelby car and rammed il about
twenty five feet forward. The South East
car was stopped.
Both cars were heavily loaded, passen-
gers stated.
John OMAN, S62 Bradshaw street, was
motorman, ard Amos Snedeker, 702 Lynn
street conductor of the Shelby car, and
Ralph Kimery, 25S South Summit street,
was condu,to of the South East car.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-26
THEY'RE SELLING
GUM AND CANDY
ON STREET CARS!

MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, March 90
There was once gentleman named
Plato. by temperament poet, by inclina-
ton philosopher. whom Minneapolis
Street Railway Company officials would
have shocked today had he been living.
Announcement was made by officials
of the Twin City lines that chewing gum
and candy is to be sold on street cars.
That's the thing that would have shocked
Plato. for Plato hated vulgarity and,
say the experts Of etiquette, its vulgar
to chew gum or eat candy in public.
The gum and candy machines are to
be Installed on the backs Of all street car
seats. The innovation Is now in its ex-
perImental stage. 1t is being tried out
on four cars If It pleases the public all
cars Will be equipped with the machines
That means that some day you may sit
down on some chewing gum.
There is still need for PIato's philoso-
ply.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-26

Quito, companion of his perambularions.
Thus they stood, four of the Mulberry
Hill Gang and two of the Dry Dock
Gang, minding their Ps and Q's so So
licit0usly that Dutch Mike kept one eve
on his customers and the other on an
open space beneath his bar in which it
was his custom to seek safety whenever
the ominous pOliteness of the rival as
sociatons CONCEALED into the shapes Of
bullets and cold steel.
But we have not to do with the wars
of the Mulberry Hills and the Dry
Docks. We must to ROOney's, where, en-
the most blighted dead branch of the tree
Of life n little pale orchid shall bloom.
Overstrained etiquette at last gave
way. 1t is not known who first over
stepped the bounds of punctilio; but the
consequences were immediate Buck
Malone of the Mulberry Hills, with a
Dewey like swiftness, got an eight inch
gun swung around from his hurricane
deck But McManus's smile must be the
torpedo He glided in under the guns
and slipped a scant three inches of knife
blade between the ribs of the Mulberry
Hill cruiser. Meanwhile Brick Cleary, a
devotee to strategy, had skinned across
the lunch counter and thrown the switch
CONTINUED on Page EDuE.l
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-26
1000 OF CITY'S
YOUTH ANSWER
REVIVAL CALL
Express Desire at Gipsy Smith
Meeting to Lead Better
Lives.
Home Run DriUeS
by Gipsy Smith

Young people are the first to COM
prehend Jesus and the quickest to
VespOnd to him.
IF you can not help, do not hinder
sit tight"
"Sln may be forgiven. but It can
net be undone, either in this world
or the next"
eff every boy and girl in this taber-
nacIe would accept Jesus, it would
reyolutiOnize Indianapolis"
Young people are the bravest in
the wOrid-shOw your courage"
Most Christians are saved before
they are 20, before the devil has had
a chance to twist them"
Better a fence at the edge OF the
precipice than hospital at the bot
tom of the tObOggan."
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-26
CHARGE GOVERNMENT
FORCED REVOLUTTON

BERLIN, March 26-Charges that the
. German government deliberately forced
the present revolution were made by the
communists here today.
Through their spokesman they declared
the Ebert regime had two main objects
in view-crUshing Of the workers prepar-
atOry to throwing the entire reparations
burden on them and demonstrating to
, the entente that retention of arms is nee
essary to overcome proletarian outbursts
The government counters with the
charge that the communists sought to in
stigate a revolution at d time the au-
thorities were occupied with the Poles
and the reparatiOn question, hoping it
would spread throughout Germany ana
enable them to overthrow the present ad-
ministration. 1t was predicted the up
rising would be suppressed soon.
BY DIR. FRITZ SACH,
Member of the Executive Committee of
Communist Labor Party.
The governments action in central Ger
many is only an Introductory measure to
the final plan TO crush the resistance OF
the workers with the purpose Of throw
ing the entire burdens OF the reparations
upon them
The fight was not provoked by the
communists nor was it commanded by
Moscow. 1t was caused by the govern
ment dispatching strong forces Of police
into the industrial districts to break up
the revolutionary committees of action
which the workers had elected in place
of the shop stewards These commit
tees have conducted the only successful
strikes in Germany recently, those in
Mansfield and LOuena and the bourgeOiSe
there consider them the backbone Of
the revolutionary movement and direct
an attack against them. This explains
bthe spontaneous uprising Of the entire
pr0letariat-
The unbreakable resistance Of the Ba-
varian government and police to disarna-
ment impelled the German government
to create new incidents which are in
tended to prove to the entente that arma-
ment Of those reactionaries is necessary
to put down workers uprisings
By HERR SEVERN.
Prussian Minister of the Interior
We were fully prepared for this move
by the Communists themselves. For long
time they had warned US through public
announcements, mass meetings and their
press.
The action was undertaken after the Si-
lesian plebiscite, when the government
was having trouble with the Poles in ad-
dition to the reparatiOn question, in hopes
that we would be too occupied to offer
sufficient resistance to prevent spread
OF the uprisings throughout Germany,
with consequent fall of the present ad-
ministration. We were also informed
that great quantities of dynamite and
munitions were being smuggled from
central Germany into other parts Of the
country preparatory to a general upris-
ing. 1t was to prevent this and restore
the authority of the state that we de-
cided to dispatch our safety police into
the affected district
Reports of the formation of a Red
army have been greatly exaggerated. We
are convinced that we viii be able to
crush the uprisings by tomorrow
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-26
Naval BallOOnists Missing
in South May Have Fallen
in Tropical Coast Forests

Strangely similar to the recent flight
Of Lieutenants Kloor, Hinton and Far
rell from the R0ckaway IN. " station,
is this fight in a different cline. Like
Kloor, who commanded the ill-fated bal
loon that drifted into the frozen wilder
ness Of the north, Wilkinson's provisions
were scant and his means Of communica-
ton in case of danger limited.
Only three carrier pigeons were taken
Two of these have returned to Pensacola,
one with the information that the bag
was IN a bad plight and about to fall into
the water.
However, unlike the trip Of the three
Rockaway Heutenants, Wilkinson proba-
bly, has drifted into a tropical wilder
ness, provided his balloon did not fall
into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico
Officers here are agreed that it would be
much easier for the five who were in the
Pensacola balloon to make their way
to civilization than 1t was for KloOr, Hin
ton and Farrell. 1t also probably would
be easier for them to obtain food
ANOTHER VERSION
PUTS THEM IN SEA.
Further opinion is advanced that the
balloOnists, finding that the bag was
losing It's buOyancy, cut away the bas-
ket as it touched the surface of the water
and took refuge In the rigging This
would cause the balloon to again ascend.
the weather students assert. and might
enable the crew to reach the land With
these theories In mind, the Pensacola sta
tion dispatched a dirigible with sufficient
staying power" to remain for more than
a day over the forests, under instruction
to search the mainland and inland cen
ters, especially the forests, with as much
care as the sea is being searched.
An Eagle boat that had been zigzag-
ging all day Friday and the day and
night before returned to the station with
10 news
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-26
BULLETIN.

BI ILLEIIN.
PENSACOLA. Fla, March 26.-AccOrd-
ing to an uncOnfirmed rumor here today,
two members of the crew of the missing
naval balloon which left Pensacola air
station Tuesday night, have been picked
up by a merchant vessel bound for New
Orleans. The others, according to this
rumOr, were lost in the gulf.
PENSACOLA, Fla, March 20.-That the
balloon which has been missing from
the naval ar station here since last Tues
day may have drifted to land and that
the five men in it may have been killed or
badly injured and are now wandering
about in the forests along the Calhoun
or Bay County coast, was the theory
advanced by Lieutenant Reed. instructor
at the station, today.
This conclusion is reached by study
Of weather conditions of Tuesday Lieu
tenant Reed plotted the course Of the
balloonists and does not understand how
the bag could have gone to sea in the
teeth Of fresh SOutherly winds which
were prevailing on Thursday along the
Florida coast
If the men have drifted inland, it is
considered here as almost certain that
their basket has been torn away by
treetops, if it had not already been cut
away by the men. In the latter event,
experts here believed they would have
been brushed out of the rigging proba-
bl- receiving serious injuries in falling
HAVE BEEN MISSING
FOR THREE DAYS.
The men have been missing three days.
Chief Quartermaster G. R. Wilkinson
took off here Tuesday night with
four students as his companions. Pro-
visions were taken for only a short
period, arrangements having been made
for the fight to be made at night for
practice.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-26
SHELTON ASKED
TO VACATE JOB
BY GOV. M'CRAY
Fred Robinson to Be Named
Secretary of State Pur-
chasing Body.
COMES AS A SURPRISE

The resignation Of Maurice Shell
ton, secretary of the State .purchas-
ing committee, was demanded> today
by Governor Warren T. McCray.
Fred Robinson, one of Governor Nc
Cray's former campaign managers,
will be appointed in Mr.. Shelton's
place, should he resign.
Mr.. shelton was taken by surprise
when he was told that the Governor was
asking for his resignation, but while he
was discussing it a messenger from the
Governors office arrived with the writ
ten request
While Mr. Shelton would make no def
mite statement he indicated that he
would take the attitude that he is not
responsible to the Governor but to the
State purchasing committee and that
the question Of his resignation should be
decided by the committee.
In announcing that he had asked for
Mr. Shelton's resignation, the Governor
said he had not received a reply, but
that he presumed Mr.. Shelton would re-
ply. He said If Mr.. Shelton should not
reply there are other ways Of doing it.
GUESSED THAT WAS
ABOUT RIGHT"
When asked If the report were true
that Mr. Robinson would be given the
appointment the Governor said he
guessed that is about right"
In discussing the request of the Gov
ernor Mr.. Shelton said he had never heard
Of any complaint Of his services.
81 have never heard any criticism of
anything l have done and I have every
reason TO believe that my services have
been satisfactory" Mr.. Shelton said. "As
see 1t my first duty is loyalty to the
purchasing board and l am responsible
to that board"
The salary Of the secretary Of the pur-
chasing committee is $4,000 a year, which
will go to Mr.. Robinson as a reward for
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