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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-02-25
COLLEGE NOTES

Miss Olivette Burke of West Rut-
land is visiting Miss MacDonough 23
for few days.
The net proceeds OF the y. W. c. A
Bazaar held last Friday evening
amounted to $225.64.
Miss Gertrude Graves 20, of Wal
pole, n H., attended the Sigma Kap-
pa initiation and banquet Saturday
evening and the Alpha Sigma Phi
dance held Monday night.
Miss Marlborough %, Morris Lee
81, Frank P. Carrigan 81, Joseph R.
Lockwood "a, and Herbert Sevigny
% attended the Kake-Walk at the
University of Vermont Monday eve
ming
Thirty couples attended the tea
dance given by members Of the wom-
ems college Wednesday evening in
Pearsons Hall. The patrons were Dean
and Mrs. l. |. Bonney and Mrs. Kate
Mills. Music was furnished by a three
piece orchestra
Further organization and activity of
the college Glee Club has been noted
in the arrangement effected whereby
Mr.. Alfred Larsen has been secured to
direct and drill the Club According
to a statement by Manager Frank P.
Carrigan 81, arrangements are being
made for a trip to begin the week fol-
lowing the termination of the Spring
recess and to continue the entire week
Among the towns at which it is ex-
pected to give concerts on this trip
are Morrisville, St. Johnsbury Wells
River, Waterbury and Barre. The
Glee Club will also make one night
stands in Vergennes, Whiting and
Brandon.
Following the trial debates which
have been conducted the past week in
the Old Chapel the faculty selected
the two teams which will participate in
the triangular debate to be held with
St. Lawrence University and the Uni
versity of Vermont March 10Th. The
men chosen are Darby 81, McFee 81,
Adams 90, Eddy 90, Austin "a,
Klimm "a, Parry "a, and Reilly "a.
Should any of these men fail to main
tain the necessary standard other men
will BIZ substituted in their places.
Seventeen men competed for places on
the team.
The annual formal dance of the
Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity was held
in the Mccullough Gymnasium Mon
day evening Music was furnished by
Fitzpatricks orchestra of seven pieces
The dance started at 430 in the after
noon, and at 7:30 the couples went to
Battell where dinner was served. The
dancing then continued until midnight.
The gymnasium was very attractively
decorated with red and black, the fra
ternity colors, streamers being suspend
ed from a large electrically illuminated
pin which was placed in the center Of
the overhead decorations, to the walls.
The decorating was in keeping with
the plans discussed by the representa-
tives Of the fraternities at Middlebury.
The patrons were DIR. and Mrs. V. c.
Harrington, Professor and Mrs. L. Mo-
reno-Lacalle. Mrs. M. o. Mason, and
Mrs. N. B. Law. F. c. Brigham, H. P.
Nelson. R. T. Hall, c. ]. Haugh, A. B.
Way, and F. Jenkins were guests. A.
II q.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-02-25
Woman's Club

The benefit entertainment gwen
Monday by the five Departments was
well attended and Melted over Sl25
The Essay department contributed
series of tableaux with pantomine
very beautifully carried out. The pic
lures in the Magic Mirror were worthy
of a more than passing show.
The appearance OF the school chill
dren was greatly enjoyed, the Educa-
ton department furnishing six num-
bers, three choruses, two solos and a
duet which was one OF the hits OF the
evening.
Thirteen members OF the Fortnightly
department assisted in the program
The violin solos and the double quar-
tette with piano duet accompaniment
were noteworthy numbers.
Friday afternoon, March 4, there
will be an open meeting OF the Civics
department at o'clock in the Club
Rooms. Miss Emma Fuller will give
sewing demonstration lecture to
which Club members will be welcome.
The play "Neighbors" was hne
climax of the evening. This was pro-
duced under the direction Of Mrs.
Hagar of the Century department and
Mrs. Hathaway representing the Civics
department, with an able cast. The
Woman's Club is indebted to DR.. Bur
rage, Dr. Slocum and H. R. Cooley Tor
their valued assistance.
The General meeting for March will
be held Monday evening, February
IS, in the Club Rooms. Business meet
ing at 7:3O o'clock will be followed by
an address by Mrs. Harvey D. ingalls,
bee of Glens Falls. N. Y. Her subject
is "The hidden truths made reality
to us through the sacrifice OF the Ar
lists Soul, a paper she wrote and
delivered before the Theatre Club in
New York City. Mrs. Ingalsbee is
widely known pianist and successful
teacher of music.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-02-25
FOOD PRICES DROP 8
PER CENT IN JANUARY

Washington, Feb lS.-Decline OF
per cent in retail food prices in Janu-
airy as compared with December was
reported by the bureau of .e5or sta
tistics of the department of labor
The greatest decrease, per cent, was
reported for Los Angeles and Manches-
ter, n H The decline in Rochester
was per cent; IN Buffalo, Newark, n.
J., and New York, 3 per cent in
Scranton ? per cent
of the A articles on which prices
were reported, p showed decreases Of
which the following were the most pro-
nounced Fresh eggs, IA per cent; lard.
l3 per cent; rice, 10 per cent, and
sugar s per cent Articles which in
creased in price included pork chops
and cabbage, per cent; hens, 6 per
cent; lamb 4 per cent; rib roast, 3
per cent, and sirloin and round steak,
chuck roast, plate beef, 4 per cent.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-02-25

The caprice of fate is sometimes
very amusing, We who had read with
amazement of the rigors of Vermont
winter and had often marvelled at the
endurance of the Green Mountain folk
in being able to reach hearty old age
after several scores of such snow bound
seasons, must perchance return disap-
pointed to our native state south, with
out even the memento of real biz
card. Then to read of the recent storm
in our home town Boston that surpassed
anything of its kind in % years, farth-
er back than we can remember, and
to look out of our office window here
in mid-Vermont to see the bare ground
and in February!
The local people too who went to
Florida to escape the rigors of the
season cannot but feel keen disappoint-
ment in that they went to such expense
IN turning their backs on the mildest
winter months in the recollection of
the oldest inhabtant.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-02-25
Farmers Forum

On Monday another meeting OF the
state tariff committee will be held in
the Hotel Vermont in Burlington.
There will be a meeting Of Addison
County men interested in the New
York Dairymen's League Saturday
afternoon in Middlebury at one o'clock
Officials of the League will attend to
explain the pooling plan and other
projects Of interest to dairymen.
James A. Leach Of Pawlet, chairman
of the state tariff committee, repre-
sented the Vermont bureaus at the
Boston conference Of the New England
Milk Producers Association. A sche-
dule Of proper tariffs for dairy pro-
ducts was considered.
More than a third OF the question
naires sent to Farm Bureau members
regarding the agricultural bills before
the legislature have been returned.
One vote was registered against the
state aid for the farm bureaus, and two
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-02-25

"Mr. Dempsey, Vermont's new com
missioner of education, ought to be
left out of the impending discussion
relative to teacher training in Vermont.
Let's settle one thing first and not get
into complicated situation from
which there will be little chance of
escape without disrupting our whole
educational system Barre Times.
Mr.. Stearns, of Johnson, leader of the
fight to restore the normal schools at
Johnson and Castleton, did a marked
injustice to Commissioner of Education
Dempsey when. by inference, he &C
cused the commissioner of putting out
paid propaganda because some of the
newspapers Of the state carried a legis-
lative story to the effect that in some
quarters it was believed that the cut
ting down of the salary of the COM
missioner was a part of the normal
school strategy to get rid of Dempsey
and put Doctor Collins of Middlebury
in his place.-St. Adams Messenger.
We have been given to understand
on the very best of authority that Doc
tor Collins had refused an offer of
the position. So why the hubdub?
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-02-25
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES

Edith Cartmen spent Wednesday in
Burlington
Clifton Calhoun spent the weekend
in Boston with his parents.
Nina and Ada Selleck are at their
home in Middlebury with measles
The Girls Basketball team has a
game scheduled for Monday night in
Brandon.
Dorothy lockwood is very i'll at her
home in West Addison with measles
and grippe.
Hugh Atwood, Clery Haynes and
William Baldwin attended the Kake
Walk in Burlington.
Helen Moore came down with mea-
sizes Tuesday in school and Marjorie
Bingham is out caring for her.
Christine Atwood, Laura Benedict,
Blanche Winch, Rachael Fiske and
Hazel Billings are all i'll with measles.
They are all teacher training girls.
The Girls Basketball teams have been
playing their class games with results
as follows: Seniors Sophomore 2S-20;
Junior Sophomore l0-lS; Senior-Junio
1853; Senior Freshmen "A.
The following boys played in enough
games to win the football "M": At
wood, Stanton Eddy, Smolinski, Max
an Eddy, Haynes, Tully, Ralph Eddy,
Calhoun, Shambo, Gallipo, Yates.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-02-25
MEASLES EPIDEMIC
CLOSES TWO GRADES
CONTINUED from page onel

Continued from page one
be classed with small pox and such
contagious.
At the college there have been but
four cases. Carroll Gray was taken
sick after visit to his home in New
York state where he attended dance
and contracted the measles. Two of his
fellow students were then brought
down with the contagion, and from
these only one other person has con-
tracted the disease The doctors hope
that the same good fortune will attend
their further efforts to prevent its
further spread
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-02-25

Professor de Visme has returned from
an extended lecture trip which includ-
ed engagements at the Horace Mann
School for Boys. New York, The Ben
nett School of Liberal and Applied
Arts, Millbrook. N. Y, Colgate Uni
versity, Hamilton, N. Y, Utica High
School, Teachers Convention, Utica,
N. Y, and at Schenectady, N. Y.
In these various lectures Professor
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-02-25
THE M1DDLEBURY REGISTER

Published Every Friday Noon
Entered as second-class matter, al
the postoffice at Middlebury, Vt.
Charles E. Crane. Publisher
Daniel P. Rossiter. Editor and Manager
Subscription Rate: $500 a year, pay
able only in advance.
Cash must accompany all orders for
advertising from parties not having an
account with us.
Editorial and Business Office, 1896
Main street, Middlebury
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-02-25
To the Editor of The Register

In your issue of last week there ap-
peared an interesting letter from Hon
c. l. Button. In regard to the lump
sum bill he says "The platform proved
a powerful lever and did the trick"
The assemblage of nominees of the Re-
publican party which convened at Bur
lington in October 1920 was very far
from a full representation. There were
but few present from this county and
one of those present was defeated in
the November election. The writer
is not opposed to the lump sum bill
but he does not regard the indorse-
ment of it by this trump" convention
as a vital thing. Since attaining his
majority the writer has supported
every republican nominee for the pre-
sidency beginning with James A. Gar
field who said in the republican ma
tional convention at Chicago in 1880,
81 stand behind this measure because
it is everlastingly right"
Yours respectfully,
Frank H. Warner
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-02-25
Annual Report of Treasurer of Ladies'
Library Association

Feb. l. 1920 to Feb. /, 1921
Total receipts -------- $780, Sl625 6s
Total expenses --- ---- Sl54S %
Balance on hand Feb. l. 1921 Is 90
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-02-25

MARY w. H. MELLEN,
Treasurer
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-02-25

The marriage of Willard Chandler
and Miss Martha Allard, daughter Of
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Allard, took place
Monday evening at the parsonage, the
Rev. Hervey Gulick performing the
ceremony. They were unattended.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-02-25
PRICES
Effective April Ist, 1921

Inquire for special prices for bulk milk
from cans.
Agreeable to the general downward
trend of prices, and the fact that dollar
will now buy more take pleasure in an.
nouncine my summer prices as above.
We have complied with the require
ments of the State Board Of Health and
are duly licensed to sell milk
Is your milk man licensed dealer II
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-02-25
Making Reporting Easy

HAS ANY ONE
Died. .......H Had a fire........
Eloped. ..... Had baby.
Divorced. ~ Had a party.
Embezzled. Sold farm.
Left town. Been arrested. &C..
Come to town. ......
Had twins or collie. ........
Sold a COW or lost an auto. 900.
Stolen a dog-or friends wife.
Committed suicide-or murder ,....
Fallen from an airplane. .....
Fallen into a well. ....
Fallen into legacy?..........
st. Johnsbury Caledonian
Let us tell the world" about it.
, 1921-05-28

Calumet Cream
Cake
Recipe
"a cups pastry
-four. 8 level tea
spoons Calumet
Baking Powder. "
cup butter, III cups
g~ranulated sugar,
folks of 3 eggs u
cup cold water,
Whites of 8 eggs /
teaspoon orange
extract Then mix
IN the regular way.
, 1921-05-28
People, Forum
DIR FULKKRsoNs ADDRESS.

The wonderful lecture of DR.. Full<er-
son before the Forum luncheon the
other day. brought out some very In
ter-sting facts on the economic crisis,
that arc applicable to Casper today.
While I was In the manufacturing
business in the east. we shipped our
product into nearly every country
that ever imported anything from the
United States Although we IN more
than throe thousand agents in the
United States who handled our goods.
more than ono-half OF our total out
put was shipped abroad II we were
running h sarne factory today. that
would near hat our plant would only
be one-haif as large as It was In those
days or we would DO compelled to run
on half time because of the cutting
on OF our foreign trade. The result
would be that instead Of 500 men VIC
would need only $50. Casper today
Is living on the outside trade. Just
the III as though II were foreign
trade. The money that runs this city
comes here IN exchange for products
that N manufactured here. and II
we were compelled to curtafl our ship
mcntA and not ship beyond the Wyo-
ming lines our factories would have
10 let 90 per cent Of their force 60.
The money that builds = city always
comes from the op.side, ne matter
whether It is from n foreign COUNTRY
Or from a neighboring state. It is all
h same to the city which gets It,
I have always maintained hat a city
must have factories and tourists to
build with. for both bring the money
in from the outside BY building a
FIRST class hard surfaced highway
from Cheyenne to the Yellowstone
park. we could get just as much tour
list money into the state OF Wyoming
as the oil companies are now paying
out in n payroll in Casper. Denver
estimates that tourists bring forty
million dollars into Denver every
year They spend from thirty to
forty thousand dollars per year TO
maintain their tourist bureau. and II
pays them back q million for every
thousand spent Does that pay.
Some OF our people are awake to the
wonderful. possibilities Of the tourists
business, and when more than so per
cent OF our population gets that idea
we will have the mo wonderful
highway from Cheyenne &c the Vel
lowstone park that was ever con-
ceived. Wyoming has something to
sell besides oil. Something that every
man in the east who needs n vacation
he can't afford to take n chance on
our roads. Sunshine and scenery do
not cost US n cent. but we can sell
millions OF dollars OF those two mr.
ticles each year to our eastern cousins
II we but build that highway.
FRED PATEE.
, 1921-05-28
ARRIVAL OF GERMAN TOYS.

In the shipping news Of the New York Tribune this
item is picked up: "A large consignment of German
made toys arrived here yesterday from Hamburg on
the American liner Manchuria. The consignment,
which is destined for several wholesale dealers in this
country, is said to have been bought up at an exceed
ingly low price. This in addition to the great depre-
citation of the German mark will make a large profit
for the Importers"
signment of German-made toys does not amount to
much in itself. If the shipment, spoken of, happened
to be the only one no attention would be paid to it.
But it is only one shipment Of many that have been
coming into the port of New York thus early in the
year ahead of a tariff measure that is certain to be
passed by the present congress levying a duty upon
foreign goods of this character. The Germans are
canny in getting their goods in before such a law can
be placed in effect
Every cargo of toys from Germany, made by cheap
labor and sold in our markets simply means that much
employment denied American worlmen and work
women and that much wages taken away from our
people which they should have, for we are operat-
ing under the Wilson-Underwood free trade law which
demands no duty upon such imports.
1t was demonstrated during the years of the war
that Americans could fully supply the home toy mar
kets, with better and greater variety of toys than
ever came out of Germany, and have a surplus for
foreign trade. The world was delighted with the
American goods. Both the Germans and the Japanese
have copied the American goods, have made them up
in cheaper and flimsier form and are now sending
them to US with cheaper labor costs of production and
occupying our markets without any revenues to our
national treasury.
1t is not alone toys, foreign countries have been
sending into American markets, various otner prod
ucts, cheaply produced, have been coming steadily,
ever since these countries rehabilitated their manu-
featuring plants, shortly after The close of the war.
It is one explanation of Unemployment throughout
our own country and impresses or should impress con-
gress with the necessity Of a tariff to secure a rev.
enue or else to keep out a large share of these cheap
ly made foreign goods.
, 1921-05-28
the reform of human passions through diplomatic de-

the reform Of human passion. through diplomatic de-
cree.
Official notice was conveyed to all Europe, what &c
may and may not have hearS through the American
press that the United States can never enter the
League of Nations
trayal Of its creators and masters, and will not, I can
assure you, have anything whatsoever to do with the
league or any commission or committee appointed by
it, or responsible to it, directly or indirectly, openly
or furtively."
Respect for Colonel Harvey, President Harding and
for the American people rose as the ambassador pro-
ceeded and delivered the message to his hearers that
the America of pre-Wilson days had returned to its
own. jealous of its rights and sovereignty, but ready
in its discretion. to lend proper aid to others when oc-
casion may arise. S.
, 1921-05-28
BALM FOR TIE FoRcETFUL.

Professor Einstein could not answer offhand what
is ene speed Of sound" observes the New York rrib-
une. "The information, he said could be found in a
book. And he is today probably the most famous liv-
ing physicist This is the first comfort that has come
to forgetful educated folks since the shock of discov-
cry Of the flaccidiyt Of their memories, following the
publication of the Edison questionnaires- What is the
Speed Of sound? Who does not count when he sees
the lightning flash and waits TO hear the thunders
roll? Probably not one of the thousands of piano
tuners in the world knows the velocity of the ethereal
vibrations set up by the wires he tightens or loosens.
"But there are people with Photographic minds who
do remember the speed Of light, the speed Of sound,
the formula for force, the value of pi, the dimensions
of Betelgeuse, the repertory of Lillian Russell, and the
year Mazzini was born-a widely assorted stock of
facts, and usually they are not scientists or profess
sors or encyclopedias; professionally they are CONVEX
sationalists and the awe of their audiences is their
great reward. Other people specialize in one or a few
srbjects-baseball statistics, the electoral votes, the
stack colors of every steamship line, the dates of the
notes of ex-President Wilson, and Greenwich Village
Is supposed to be peopled with %dilettanti.
"Our memories are grateful servants. They retain
what suits US, and what suits US usually pleases US. If
we are self-sufficient and neither gracious nor politic,
our memories decide not to remember names or faces
of acquaintances. Some of US cannot carry tunes or
pocsy or story plots with any fidelity, and this may
mean that there is neither melody nor romance in our
souls or that we are such abundant creators ourselves
that our memories ask, Whats the use?' A good
transcription of an old ~apothegm is Tell me the sort
of things you remember and I'll tell you the sort of
person you are If you remember murder and di-
vorce and other morbid news, you are morbid and
small-minded. If you remember boxing bouts, or the
lengths Of fish you have caught, or the hardest fought
tennis match you ever saw, then your heart turns to
sport. To remember anything about cinema stars
might mean lack of sapiency. I
But it is only fair to allow that a man is a better
citizen who remembers the capitals of every state in
the Union, the year McKinle was shot, and the meth
cd of enumerating the United States divisions in the
world war. We cannot depend entirely upon books,
otherwise our memories would end in atrophy, the
key to books would be lost, and we should fade as civ
ilized beings, going through the stages of degeneracy
until we had forgotten it is wrong to murder, it is
harmful and hurtful to touch fire, and, finally, it is
unpleasant to collide with a hard object The adult
amnesia victim is probably the most ~pitifulIy disabled
of men, for memory is the tower we erect to view the
world The lower it is the less exalted is our view"