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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1922-03-10

Mrs. R. F. Pinney spent Monday
with her parents in Shelburne.
-Errol Gorham has returned from
a weeks stay in New York City.
Thomas E. Boyce has sold his
property on Elm street to Mrs. Cora
Nichols of Vergennes.
-FordyCe Moore of Springfield,
Mass, is visiting his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Milo K. Moore.
Mrs. Charles Champlin has re-
urned from a weeks visit with Mrs.
Frank Pierce in Rutland.
Mrs. J. K. Dyer and son, Denzil,
will leave tomorrow for weeks bust
ness trip to New York city.
Mrs. Fred c. Smith has returned
rom a visit with her daughter, Miss
Mary L. Smith of Proctor.
d. p. Rossiter, editor of the Lud-
low Tribune, who has been seriously
Il, is reported much better.
Philip ]. Wimmett OF North Ad-
ans, Mass, is spending a few days
with his parents on Weybridge street
The United States Bureau of Fish
cries has $4,000 trout eggs in Matching
at the Holden hatchery to be planted
in Lake Dunmore this spring.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1922-03-10
MIDDLEBURY LOCALS

Dr. Slocum is able to be out after
his recent illness.
George Rose has been confined to
the house by illness
Thomas Jones OF Vergennes spent
the weekend in town
Judge John L. Weeks was in
Montpelier Tuesday
Fred Smith has entered the EN-
ploy of A, J. Blackmer.
Willis Cady was a business visitor
in Burlington Wednesday.
Miss Marjorie Hayes returned
Tuesday from the Mary Fletcher hos
pital,
Friday evening lenten service will
be held this week at St Stephens
church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Narcotic of
Shelburne are the parents of a son
born Sunday.
Francis Churchill was in Burling-
ton Wednesday to attend a Farm Blu
reau meeting.
Miss Helen Bosworth has re-
turned to Northampton, Mass, after
weeks visit at the home of her
brother, Wayne C. Bosworth
The ~ S. Foote company has
sold the Fales place on South Main
street, occupied by Joseph Carron, to
Mr.. and Mrs Rollin y. Stone.
Miss Genevieve Elmer, who has
been visiting for the past week at the
home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs
Horace Elmer, has returned to Hart
ford, Conn.
The Good Cheer Circle of the
Kings Daughters will meet next
Thursday afternoon, at three o'clock
with Mrs Willis n Cady of South
Pleasant street
Harold T. Seeley, son of Mr.. and
Mrs Charles Seeley, has been recently
initiated into the Phi Beta Kappa Fra
ternity of the University of Vermont,
the national honorary scholarship So
Ciety.
Miss Rena O'Bryan, who has been
spending the past week with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs Ransom R. O'Bry-
an has returned to Northampton,
Mass.
John Mack of Salisbury was
brought before Judge Albert W Dick
ems in Addison County Municipal
court Saturday, charged with Operat-
ing an automobile without having it
registered He pleaded guilty, and
was fined $40 and costs of $3.50 which
he paid
George H. Chaffee has recently
received an appointment, from the U.
S Department OF Agriculture, as fed
eral deputy game warden. The APP
pointment carries with it no restric-
ton in territory Of jurisdiction and
has for its purpose the prevention of
violations of the federal migratory
bird law
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1922-03-10

WANTED: Furniture of ally kind,
and old books. Cash paid for any
thing you have. See Gardner J. Dun
can.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1922-03-10

Charles Grandey is spending a few
days at his home on South street.
Mrs Emmett W. Gould will speak
at meeting of the Outlook club in
Bristol this evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Timothy Dillon, who
have been visiting Mr.. and Mrs Pat
rick Dillon, have returned to Vergen-
mes.
The regular meeting of Middlebury
Grange will be held in their hall this
evening and after the regular business
session a fine program will be carried
out.
Dean Edgar J. Wiley cut aspara-
gus from a small bed at the south side
of his house yesterday. Heretofore
March 26 has been the earlies he has
been able to eat home grown aspara-
gus.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1922-03-10

FOR SALE or would exchnge for
cattle, pair rugged work mars. Cor
ham Brothers. l0t2
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1922-03-10
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
of MiddleburY
SUNDAY, MARCH Y

BIBLE SCHOOL $50 a. m. Junior De.
partment
SUNDAY MORNING WORSHIP l0.45
Sermon by Prof Y. c. Harrington.
BIBLE SCHOOL AT NOON
Primary intermediate and senior
departments Glasses for all and a
hearty welcome.
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR SOCIETY, 700
Meets in vestry. All young people
welcome.
COMMUNITY EVENING SERVICE, 745
in the Auditorium. Sermon by Rev.
Orville A. Petty, New Haven, Conn
THURSDAY EVENING, -Mid-week
Prayer Meeting in the Vestry. Topic
The Road to the Kingdom: What is
the Big Goal in Life ?"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1922-03-10

Mrs. Henry c. Walker has retaarn-
ed from Rutland where she has been
on a business trip.
Miss Rena Purcell of the Local
telephone exchange is off duty ON &C
count of illness and has gone to the
home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas H. Purcell in Orwell.
For glasses, see DR.. Slader, OptOme-
trist, at the Sargent, Tuesday, Mar. Il.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1922-03-10

FOR SALE Prince Albert ,uit, size
36. Perfect condition Been worm only
four times. Inquire at the Register
Office 10t1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-07

Mellon does get out, it will be victory for the politicians, but not particularly creditable to the administration.
 A great deal of sophistry has been induged in by democrats as well as republicans in re- gard to civil service. The republicans may say that they are doing no more than the demo- crats have done in the past and will do in the future when they get the chance. They may claim that government employe "gets into rutt" and becomes inefficient if he thinks ments disprove the fact that civil service is the greatest reform ever made in the Amer ican system of government.
 If it were true that inefficient employees are turned out and efficient men put in their places, there would be some justification for disrupting the civil service but that is not true. Party workers who are given government positions to pay them for their loyalty are chosen, not for competence or ability, but simply because they have a claim on the party's patronage and make life miserable for their representatives in Congress until they get on the government pay roll
 The civil service was designed to keep com potent employees in the government service and prevent undesirables from getting in as pay ment for political debts. If there is going to be general "house cleaning" every time new President assumes office and experienced of fcials are supplanted by politicians pets whose sole qualification is that they belong to the party in power, it is bound to create demoral- ization and inefficiency.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-07
TIRED OF EXPERIMENTS

To the Editor of The Age Herald:
 It gives me great pleasure to cast ballot concerning referendum on form of city govern ment.
 While do not believe in too much agitation concerning some civic questions, this question is surely an exception and one that cannot be agi- tated and propagated too much.
 We can get back to the good old days and normacy to the extent of at least having here the only real, honest-to-goodness form of city government functioning for sorely-distressed and much-used but good-natured bunch of tax payers whose chief characteristics are faith and patience.
 The city manager plan would be just as bad or even worse than the present form, which is an immense farce. Why experiment.?
 If these new forms of city government fos- tered by few who first saw the light of day in some crossroads town or a flag station, and who probably have never been further north than Attalla further south than Tusca- loosa, are so immensely efficient, then why in the name of goodness does New York, Chi cago, Philadelphia, Boston and other progress sive cities fail to experiment with them? Very truly, c. l.. VANCE.
 Birmingham April 6, 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-07
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH'S SPINNING INDUSTRY

Facts brought out with regard to the south ern cotton mill industry in northern trade papers and industrial journals, following charges that living conditions around southern mills were bad, and that the industry in the south was altogether behind the times, have served to enlighten the east as to the real conditions. The data appeared in papers which cannot be accused of bias in favor of the south.
 But the actual facts tell the tale. The rapid growth of the cotton milling industry in the south would not have been possible unless it was well directed. In 1905 more cotton was con- sumed by southern mills than by northern, and, beginning with 1912, southern mills have ab- sorbed a constantly larger proportion. Not only that, but the consumption per spindle has been greater, showing that southern labor is more.reliable and that southern mill operation Is steady.
 In each decade since 1890 the south has led the north in the number of new spindles. Since that date the net increase in spindles in south ern mills has been 14,o00,o00, figure almost twice as large as the northern growth of T. 500,0oO spindles.
 Labor districts in the New England cotton mill field have attracted attention to these comparative figures, and oamount of talk about living conditions in the south and the like can offset them, especially when the talk is proved false.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-07
Talladega, April 6, 1922.
 LIKES PRESENT PERSONNEL

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 Having lived in and around Birmingham for the last S5 years, in my opinion this agitation of the present form of government is nothing more nor less than "the enemy of the present officials. "Why not put our shoulder to the wheel" and help them to make a success of their administration?
 We tried all the other kinds, and in my opln- ion the old aldermanic was the rottenest of all, where the politician" ruled.
 We have the best personnel in office now that Birmingham has ever had, so let's stop this agitation, put our shoulder to the wheel, advise with our commissioners, and be part in making this the best city in the United States.
 Boost and boost and stop knocking! Yours truly, w. D. LANIER.
 Birmingham, April A. 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-07
# < ELECTRO-CHEMICAL INDUSTRY IN ALABAMA

r Alabama was afforded an opportunity to point out.to the chemists of the country new and~successful process in the manufacture of phosphoric acid now used at Anniston in the electric steel furnaces of the Federal Phos- phorus company. With the development of ad- ditional water power, the electro-chemical in- dustry in Alabama will become more wide spread. An abundance of cheap water power Is all that is required. The raw materials are here.
 The chief potential value of the manufacture of phosphoric acid at Anniston lies in the de- velopment of a concentrated fertilizer indus try. A fertilizer concentrate means that the farmer will pay freight only on what is of value to the soil and not on a great bulk of material that possesses no value. The materials used at Anniston are phosphate rock from Ten nessee and coke, sand and iron borings obtained in Alabama.
 The product of the Anniston plant is trans ported in tank cars, carboys and barrels. It is used in many industries and in medicine. The process has been evolved by years of pains taking experiment until it has reached stage where three electric furnaces, utilizing 10000 horse power, are required to supply the trade
 Alabama is just beginning the electro-chemi- cal industry but what has been done has been done well, and points toward the certain es- tablishment here of electro-chemical centers of magnitude as the water powers are developed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-07
AMERICAN STAGE OWES MUCH
 TO ROSE COCHLAN

The description of Rose Coghlan, poor broken in health and enfeebled by age, bid ding farewell to the stage cannot fail to move everyone who has seen this really great actress in one or more of the numerous roles she has played with distinction for half century.
 Miss Coghan was trained in the school which gave America such players as Clara Nor ris, Ada Rehan, John Drew and others who have risen to eminence by the perfection of their art Whatever may be said against stock companies, such as Day's and Wallacks, it can- not be denied that these organizations have produced most of the stars whose fame will live after them The American stage owes an incalculable debt to the old stock companies which turned out actors competent to play not one role, but many.
 Miss Coghlan, both as a star and leading woman, was an actress whom it was a delight to watch. No matter what part she played It became a memorable stage portrait. Her act ing bore the true stamp of genius. It was ap-- parently done without effort.
 Although born in England, where she first won fame, Miss Coghan is regarded as an American actress. The stage will be poorer now that her career is ended
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-07
REAL NEWS
White, in Judge.

William Allen White, in Judge.
 What a marvel it is! Our modern miracles are so much more unbelievable than the won ders of old Radio concerts cover thousands of square miles, the human voice carrying around the world, and one after another of the plaques of men falling before serums. A great French scientist declares that dscarnate spirits are physically ponderable Possibly he is wrong But, why not? With the air about us filled with sounds we cannot hear until science opens ears; with a printed page radiating music that gives forth words and from the succession of words, thoughts, and from the thoughts full fellowship with all as- piring minds, what is not impossible? If the air is full of things unheard why may not space be filled with things unseen, and why may not "the forms of the departed" "enter through the open door" when science has pred it open?
 What show it is, the phantasmagoria that the curious mind of man has made out of a rather simple old world that our grandfathers knew. When we can call old Ben Franklin up on the phonef how we shall jolly the old for sending that key up the kite 10 bring down the lightning from the clouds! He surely unlocked Pandora's box of grief and trouble and amazement with the old key
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-07
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
GETTING BETTER EVERY DAY

"Normalcy is just around the corner, but the man who gets the business is the digger" said J. L. Brierton, general manager of the Central Coal and Iron company, who yesterday an- nounced resumption of business after long close-down.
 Business is getting better every day and manufacturers are beginning to realize more fully than before that the period following the armistice is passing rapidly and conditions are being bettered every day.
 "The slogan oftimes heard, 1921 is reward ing fighters is being proved through the strides which are being brought out during the present year."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-07
SCIENTIFIC ACCIDENT TAKERS

Theodore Waters, in Leslie's Weekly.
 When disabiliteering was in it's infancy, it's devotees knew no better than to submit to period of pain and suffering in order to con- vince simple-minded juries that they were en- titled to a substantial verdict. The adept of ing of the savant to make the test of his paraly- sis literally painless. Instance the following:
 The engineer of train which had just pulled into small western town leaned out of his cab and saw brakeman fall from the side of one of the cars. Running back the engineer found the brakeman squirming upon the ground and apparently suffering much pain. In his hand he held 'grab iron" which had pulled from the side of the car The man was taken home and physician called for he complained of much pain in his back. few days later a firm of lawyers entered into contract with this brakeman to sue the rail road company, he to receive 40 per cent of whatever verdict was allowed The physician attending him was discharged and a new doc tor was obtained.
 Soon after that the brakeman complained of lack of feeling in both legs; and indeed he seemed to speak truly, for several doctors called in consultation found his legs appar- ently dead as he evidenced no pain at all when pins and needles were stuck into them. Never theless suspicion was aroused for doctor at least called attention to the fact that there. was no atrophy of the legs. The muscles were firm and well rounded-a condition which would not be possible in man who had no use of his legs for nearly six months But since several other doctors testified at the trial that it was bona fide case of paralysis, and since the brakeman lying inert upon wheel chair in court looked the part, the jury was evidently impressed for it rendered verdict in his favor, assessing damages at S18,000.
 The company appealed the verdict, and pending a new trial the claim agent received visit from disgruntled associate of the brake man. who stated that the latter was not par ayzed at all; that he was being treated with "dope" to withstand the paralysis test and that he not only walked about his house behind drawn shades during the day, but made it practice to walk out in the yard dressed in his wife's clothes, and at such times would sweep snow off the walks, hang out the clothes or carry in coal.
 descent upon the house was planned
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-07
REPUBLICAN RAIDS ON
 CIVIL SERVICE

Civil service is fighting losing battle rumor that Secretary Mellon is going to resign from the cabinet has been revived, result of wholesale discharges in the treasury depart ment "for the good of the service.'
 MT. Mellon may have incurred the i'll will of Congress by refusing to play politics, but he has not lost public esteem. He is guilty of being multimillionaire, crime equivalent to gogues. Otherwise, he has been fearless and conscientious public official. His greatest of fense, from the republican point of view, is that he thinks more of the country's welfare than he does of the republican party. If MT.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-07
WONDERS OF THE WIRELESS

From the Providence Journal.
 Railroad travellers between Chicago and St. Paul can now get the news of the world en route by wireless. This is all very well but we are evidently approaching the day when there will be no spot earth to which the tired business man can flee with any assurance of freedom from Interruption.
 Captain Amundsen, to cite another in- stance expects to take wireless outfit with him to the north pole and talk at with his friends back home. As the poet has said, "We are living, we are dwelling, in grand and awful time.p
 What would Christopher Columbus have thought of such marvel as this new radio to which the world is rapidly getting accustome --or, not to go far back that what would Henry NJ. Stanley or Robert E. Peary have thought? It changes the whole business of exploring, bringing the remotest lands and esas within mysterious aerial neighhorhood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-07
PHOTOGRAPHY 100 YEARS OLD

From Montreal Gazette.
 A hundred years ago-in 1S22-the first permanent photographs were secured on compound of sensitive bitumen of Judea by Frenchman named Niepce. As early 1902 a process by which records could be made by the action of light was discovered by cer- tain Tom Wedgewood, but no method of fixing the print was then known, and it was not until Niepce came along with his process that this was made possible. In 1929 Niepce entered into partnership with Daguerre, another Frenchman, whose name is remembered in daguerreotypes, the earliest photographic records that remain at the present day. A monument erected in France, near Chal- ons, upon which an inscription names the year of 1922 as that in which Niepce discovered photography"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-07
LETTERS TO EDITOR
LEGISLATURES ACT OF 1911

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 Has Governor O'Neal forgotten one of his first official acts as governor? On February l. 1911, he approved joint resolution of the legislature found in Acts 1911, page 8, reading as follows
 "Be it resolved by the senate, the house con- curing:
 First, That whereas, by reason of legisla- tion heretofore enacted in this state, an inl- presson has been created in many quarters that capital invested in Alabama may~not have the conservative safeguards thrown around 1t that obtains in other sections of the country. And whereas, this fact has been spread abroad by the public press of the country to the in- jury of the business interests of the state. Now, therefore, be it
 Resolved, That it is hereby formally set forth and declared to be the settled and perma- nent policy of the state of Alabama that prop erty rights of every character, whether for eign domestic, shall be rigidly and scrup- lousy protected; that investors of capital, whether money, mind or muscle, shall have thrown around them the protection of wise and just laws, to that end that the great re- sources of mind field and forest may be de- veloped to their fullest scope and capacity, and invite all people to come and share the good things we have"
 Approved February 1, 1911.
 GRAVES EMERY.
 Taladega, April 6, 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-07
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
 Some men try to do others they are dunned by.
 Why is the hired girl of foreign birth called a domestic?
 Men who make good use of their time have none to spare.
 Chronic kickers soon develop whine that won't wear off.
 Speaking of shade trees, most family trees are more or less shady.
 Some women show their age because of their strenuous efforts to conceal it.
 There is always some around who is willing to second any kind of motion.
 Money makes the mare go--or come, or stay, according to the way it talks to the jockey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-07

For some reason or other we can't keep our mind off Germany. A Berlin dispatch says the consumption of champagne is greater than ever before
 That meeting between the Hon. "Strangler" Lewis and the Hon. Jack Dempsey is no nearer than it was when first announced.
 * < x The Belgians are an orderly people, as rule, but they were quite capable of lynching the man who betrayed Edith Cavell. Lifeguards who have presumably been posing for artists all winter will soon be on the job at bathing beaches
 Possibly, as one expert says, dishwashing leads to domestic infelicity, but it's usually safe occupation.
 x < x Even if London shopgirls are better dressed than American flappers, what are we going to do about it?
 There is no valid objection to pipes for ladies except the kind that are handed around by Chinamen.
 If the oil promoters are going to get rich to- morrow, why do they want to take so many of us in?
 Fritzi Scheff says God meant her to be happy. That doesn't go for the men who mar. ried her.
 x x There are so many Peggies on the stage it's hard to tell who's who when the big news breaks.
 # The United States survived the visit of Mar. got Asquith. Now let Europe do it's worst!
  MT. Arbuckle has again related how he played the fat Samaritan to lady in distress
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-07
THE MoCKING BIRD

By Paul H. Hayne. Of all the woodland flowers of early spring, These golden jasmines, each an air-hung
 bower
 Meet for the Queen of Faery's tiring-hour, Seem loveliest and most fair in blossoming. How wonder mock-bird thrills his fervid wing And long 1.-the throat, where twinkling flower
 on flower
 Rains the globed dewdrops, down, diamond
 shower, Der his brown head, posed in act to sing! Lo the swift sunshine floods the flowery urns Girdng their delicate gold with matchless
 light Till the blent life of bough, leaf, blossom,
 burns; Then, then outbursts the mock-brd clear and
 loud, Half-drunk with perfume, yelled by radiance
 bright A star of music in fiery cloud!