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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-04-19
Methodist Church Notes

A large audience welcomed our pas
tor back Easter Sunday after his
absence of several Sundays on
account of illness. Special Easter
music by the choir was much enjoyed,
also the Easter message from the
pastor.
In the evening a union Easter serv-
ice by the Sunday School was held in
the Congregational Church.
Monday evening the Sunday School
board social was held with the super
intendent, Mrs. Emma E. Hodgkins.
Tuesday evening, choir practice at
the parsonage.
Wednesday evening, prayer meeting
will be one-half hour earlier, at seven
instead of 1880, in the Methodist
vestry.
Friday evening the Ladies' Aid will
serve a supper from $50 until all are
served.
Saturday evening the Philathea
Class will meet at the home of Irene
Griswold
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Sensible Coal Strike Comment

Brother F. E. Howe Of the Ben
nington Banner sizes up the coal
situation in a few words and exactly
right, according to the consumers
side, when he says:
"The coal strike is an entirely diff
ferent sort of a conflict in which the
public is amply justified in fighting
both operators and miners. The
miners are trying to force an unrea-
sonable demand upon the operators
and the operators have always been
much as highway robbers in dealing
with the public. There is no reason
why the other working people of the
United States should be taxed SIS
per ton for coal in order to give
few million alien coal miners an easy
living by working less than half the
time. Likewise, there is no reason
why the coal operators should expect
to make a hundred percent annually
on their investment. Another thing
that enters into the situation is that
there are from a third to a half too
many mines in operation in this
country. Soft coal is so plentiful and
it is so easy to open a mine that the
business is overdone all through a
large part of the country. If the
miners win this strike they will prac-
tically establish the power to live off
the country without work except
what little they may choose to do for
amusement and exercise. The opera
tors will merely pass along the bur-
den and double it up to increase their
own profits. If the operators win
there may be no raise in the price
of coal. but that they will be fair to
the public is not to be expected and
coal cannot be reduced much in price
until freight rates go down"
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strikes in the granite belt that it
hardly pays any attention to them at
all. They are looked upon almost as
natural visitations.
And in the main the sympathy is
with the operators, for of all workers
in Vermont those employed in the
granite industry have been considered
as being most fortunate so far as
wage scales are concerned. If any
other class has been getting more it
has been kept a profound secret
The experiment will be watched
with interest. The open shop is the
natural reaction when an industry has
been over organized and unionized.
It is the old rule of the pendulum.
When it swings far to one side, on its
return it swings far to the other. 1t
remains to be seen whether the
employers have the courage of their
convictions; whether they are deadly
in earnest in their determination to
manage their own business in such
way that it can pay reasonable wage
to both labor and capital.
The main interest that Vermont has
in the situation is to see the industry
revive and get back on its feet. 1t is
an important industry in our state
and continued idleness hurts to the
quick. If the American plan is the
way out, then so much the better.
And, as has been said, it is well worth
trying, for results can't be much
worse than those which have been
experienced from following the other
plan.-St. Adams Messenger.
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A Skin Game

One of the largest textile mills in
southern New England is given a
pretty hard blow by one of the lead
ers of the workers.
He charges that the company has
been making over one hundred per-
cent profits during the past few
years; that within that time it has
declared two stock dividends, viz,
given each stakeholder nearly three
shares of stock for each share he
held and, on the increased capitali-
cation, have earned % percent.
In the past five years the company
is alleged to have earned $10,000,000
on a capital of first $1,500,000 and
now $3,600,O00. Yet they refuse to
allow their books to be examined;
refuse to pay fair wage or give
employees a decent place to live.
No corporation should be allowed to
increase its capital stock by stock
issue, only for cash, and then only
as needed by the requirements of the
business.
Some states have such a laval
should have.
Such increases are invariably for
the purpose of making the dividends
appear small to the public and their
employees.
L. rI..., e.n,,.n
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JOHNSON

Mrs. o. E. Sargent spent Friday in
Burlington.
Miss Gertrude Young was a week.
end visitor in Morrisville.
E. E. Holmes is in Vergennes visit
ing his son, Erie Holmes.
Miss Grace Foster of Underhill
was in town one day last week.
Mrs. Thomas Waterman was in
Burlington few days last week.
George White of Stowe is clerking
in P. B. MacDowell's drug store.
A. j. Saleeby returned Thursday
from a business trip to New York.
Mrs. l. L. Bailey of East Fairfield
was in town a few days last week.
Albert Stiles went to Burlington
last week Thursday for a short stay.
Mrs. Guy Estell of Hardwick was
a guest of Mrs. Leon Andrus Satur-
day.
Miss Lila Whipple was in Burling-
ton from Monday until Wednesday
last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald Horner are
the parents of daughter, born Sum-
day, April 9.
Mrs. Burnett Tillotson is in Nor
risville visiting at the home of her
son, Lee Tillotson.
S. J. Davis took Mrs. Henry
Thomas to the hospital last week
Wednesday for treatment.
The Ladies Aid of the Methodist
Church will hold supper in the YES
try of the church on Friday of this
week.
Mrs. Herbert Batten, who has been
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
George Young, has returned to her
home in Burlington.
Mrs. Jennie Fullington has return
ed from the Bermudas, where she
spent the winter, and from visit to
her brother in Philadelphia.
Miss Alice Davis returned Thurs
day night from Dover, N. j., where
she has passed several weeks with
her brother, Lieut.. M. H. Davis.
Mrs. H. o. Stiles was in Morris
vile last week Wednesday to attend
a county meeting of the home demon
stration department of the Farm
Bureau.
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STOWE

Russ Page of Hyde Park was
business visitor here Friday.
Snow fell for several hours Satur-
day, two inches accumulating.'
Mark Chaffee of Rutland is visit
ing his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. W. E.
Chaffee.
w. E. Shepard went Saturday to
pass the weekend at Charles Hamel's
in Waterbury.
The West Branch Community Club
will meet Thursday afternoon with
Mrs. R. H. Stevens.
Miss Hazel Gibbs was given a
birthday party Friday evening, % of
her schoolmates and friends being
present.
Edwin Lawrence Bigelow, assistant
to the president at Middlebury Col
lege, was visitor in Stowe over
the weekend.
Mrs. E. NJ. Houston, accompanied
by her daughter, Miss Helen Houston,
of Grand Isle, went Friday to visit
Mr. Houston at Gloucester, Mass.
Ten of her friends visited Mrs.
w. A. Sears at Four Winds Farm
Friday afternoon and enjoyed a pic
mic supper. The husbands of the
ladies and other friends who had ex-
pected to join the company in the
evening as a farewell party for Mr..
and Mrs. Sears were unable to come
on account of the fire.
Rev. ]. G.. Sails of Waterbury
Center came to speak at Good Fri
day service at the Community Church
Friday evening, but so many in the
community were engaged in fighting
the fire or providing supper for the
fighters that no service was held. The
high-grad stock free moving pictures
that evening were very thinly at
tended.
Mrs. ]. B. Boyce was called to
Montpelier recently by the illness of
her father, A. d. Woodwork, who
died Saturday morning after a short
illness with pneumonia. Mr.. Wood
worth was formerly a resident Of
Stowe and he assisted in building the
dam at Lake Mansfield. He leaves
his wife, two sons and two daugh-
tiers and several grandchildren. The
funeral was held at Montpelier Mon
day afternoon.
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Human Nature in Town Politics

(From the Rutland Herald, April 14)
The dear old lady of the plastered
house in Felcherville, whose homely
reflections on things public and pri-
vate are such a continual joy, illus
trates the way politics sometimes go
in the average town.
In her latest letter to the Morris
vile Messenger she returns thanks
to a well-known state politician as
follows:
"Smith Waite handed me $1.00 for
something to help out the knife and
fork fund, for which thank him for
the little folks"
AS Lamoille county member of the
state committee, the recipient of the
foregoing probably sustained the
shock fairly well, but what shall we
say to the following?
mot so long before some one must
be chosen to send to Montpelier and
we must send man that will pledge
his word to help put down the waste
of money. The taxes are going to
eat our farms up, and put a good
many men working out by the day
again. No man that owes one-half
on MS farm To-Day can pay Tor IL OH
the farm, and still they keep telling
farmers are doing we'll. Fail to see
it. Men, why not send Smith Waite
to Montpelier. He was brought up on
farm; in fact, has quite bit of
land. Know he understands our
needs; knows how we are having just
all we can drag and if there was a
chance to help think he would"
If Mr.. Waite had been a deliberate
candidate for newspaper favor, could
he have procured, by costly advertis-
ing, anything like the "send-off" he
gets from his venerable neighbor.
purely as a matter of good-natured
appreciation
And Smith Waite would be a good
man in the next Legislature, too.-
Rutland Herald
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Granite Strike

theoretically the granite industry
in the Montpelier-Barre district is
now almost completely based on the
American, or open shop, plan. Prac-
tically, it is on a union strike basis.
In most sheds quiet rules. There is
no activity.
It is not strange that the owners
are willing to try out the American
plan. 1t can hardly operate to worse
advantage than has resulted from the
tight uniOnization of the industry
Vermont has become so accustomed to
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JOHNSON

|
D. C.. Page is surveying in Morris.
vile.
Prin. R. C. Mayo was in Montpelier
Monday.
Clifford Jaynes was in Hyde Park
Saturday.
Charles Sherbert has returned from
Enosburg.
l.. A. Demeritt has returned from
trip to Boston.
Mrs. Louis Lambert was a week
end visitor in Burlington.
The pants factory has begun work
after a three weeks vacation.
Dana Gilbert has sold his house
near the station to Thomas Jacobs.
Mr.. Hicks has been recent guest
of his daughter, Mrs. Louis Lambert.
Mrs. Ernest Mills of Hyde Park
was a guest Thursday of Mrs. Archie
Pratt.
Miss Boyden of the training class
spent the weekend at her home in
Cambridge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gaylord Westover of
Jeffersonville were visitors Friday at
J. D. Odell's.
Richard Fordyce and daughter,
Marion, were in Burlington the first
of the week.
Mrs. Matte Baker and daughter
Miss May Baker, came from Everett,
Mass, Friday.
Mrs. Nelson Duba and sister, Miss
Grace Parker, have returned to their
homes in Burlington.
The Misses Badger, Hazen, Bur-
CESS, Beckton and Genette spent
Easter in Burlington.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Hilliker have
move from rooms at j. R. McCuen's
into rooms at Charles Bradford's.
See H. A. Barrow's advt. on page
six if you want the right styles in
shoes at spot cash prices.-Advertise-
ment.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. B.. Smalley were
called to Montpelier Saturday by the
illness of their son, Tracy, who is a
student in Montpelier Seminary.
Word has been received of the birth
of twin sons to Prof. and Mrs. G. E.
Stevenson of Brookings, S. D.. Pro-
fessor Stevenson was at one time
teacher of agriculture in the normal
school,
At the special meeting of the
Dread Club, which was held at the
library April Is, the club voted to
finance lecture course for the COM
ing winter. A committee was ap-
pointed to meet representatives of
different Lyceum Bureaus and decide
on the course.
The state convention of Federated
Woman's Clubs of Vermont will meet
at Springfield, VT, June 6, and S.
Mrs. c. H. Stearns and Mrs. A. j.
have been appointed dele
gates from the Dread Club. The ma
tional convention will meet at
Chautauqua, N. Y. Miss Ethel Sulli-
van has been appointed delegate.
At the meeting of the o. E. S. Fri
day evening of last week officers were
elected as follows: w. NJ, Mrs. Helen
Holcomb; w. p, w. F. Barrows;
Asso. NJ. Mrs. Estelle Saleeby; Con-,
Mrs. Eta Miller; Asso. Con-, Mrs.
Vera Titus; secretary, Mrs. Marjorie
Collins; treasurer, Mrs. Rachel
McCuen; marshal, Mrs. Carrie Small
ley; Ada, Miss Roxana Christie; Ruth,
Mrs. Emma Barrows; Esther, Mrs.
Jennie Royce; Martha, Mrs. Maud
Heath; Electa, Mrs. w. H. Stearns;
chaplain, Mrs. Elizabeth Leslie;
Miss Flora Pearl; warder,
Mrs. May McCuen; sentinel, d. S.
Scott.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-04-19

Y w is the Time to Re-New
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-04-19
Republican Settling Down"

Vice President Calvin Coolidge
summed up several notable accom-
plishments of the Harding admins
tration in his Brooklyn speech, but
the most significant might perhaps be
enumerated as follows:
Government employees reduced by
nearly 10000;
Army reduced by $4,000 and navy
accordingly;
Annual budget reduced by about a
billion and half;
Further reduction of half a billion
promised for next fiscal year;
Finances back nearly to pre-war
basis, barring costs imposed by war;
Keeping the country out of Europe;
Getting the government out of the
shipping business.
These are the phases that appeal
chiefly to business men, and Indicate
in gratifying way that the policy
of the administration is toward nor
NAL conditions and away from the
cost and waste of war.
If Congress would adjourn and stay
adjourned for the rest of the year.
Dawes, Mellon and the rest of the
big men who are putting their brains
to the problem of restoring sanity to
government finance would have a
chance to show what they could do,
and very clearly they are getting
along pretty well, despite the ten
dency of Congress to run wild on
appropriations.
We don't know of single thing
that better illustrates the attitude of
the Harding administration.
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Press Comment
All Like Roger

The friends of former Lieut.. Gov
Roger Hulburd are gratified to learn
that he is making satisfactory recov-
cry from an operation for appendicitis
in Burlington hospital. 1t. was a
serious case and for a time it was
doubtful whether he would recover
Mr.. Hulburd is one of the best liked
men in all Vermont, most desevedly
so, and when he makes his reappear-
ance he may be sure that the con-
gratulations he receives are genuine
and heartfelt.-St. Adams Messenger.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-04-19
ITHIEL FALLS

Miss Hersie Courser visited
friends in Jacksonville Saturday.
Mrs. Henry Thomas went Tuesday
to the Fanny Allen hospital for treat
ment.
Miss Alice Davis went Saturday
to Barnard to teach a spring term of
school.
The high water made travelling on
the Waterville road impossible Tues
day and Wednesday of last week.
Mrs. o. E. Sargent was in Burling-
ton Friday to visit her daughter,
Miss Florence Sargent, at the Mary
Fletcher hospital.
Alice Davis returned Thursday
night from Dover, N. j., where she
has been for the past three months
with her brothers family.
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S. of. V. and Auxiliary

At the regular meeting of the
S. of V. and Auxiliary Tuesday eve-
ming, April %, a special program will
be given in observation of the Tooth
anniversary of the birth of Ulysses
S. Grant.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-04-19

Say it with dollars. We like to
hear you talk.
We fail to understand why Con-
gress spends so much time in scrap
ping over the bonus. The members
are not paid by the hour.
F. c. Luce and son, Robert Luce,
of Waterbury were business visitors
in town the last of last week.
Evening star., 1922-02-12
THE WEATHER

District of Columbia-Rain today and
probably tomorrow; colder today: in
creasing northeast and east winds.
Maryland-Rain or snow today and
probably tomorrow; colder today; in
creasing northeast and east winds, be-
coming fresh to strong.
Firginia-Rain and colder today and
probably tomorrow: increasing east.
shifting to south winds.
West Nirginia-Rain or snow and
colder today and tomorrow.
Records for Twenty-Five Hours.
Temperature-Midnig So; am.
81; am, 81; 6 am. SO; s am, 81: 10
am, 80; II noon, 4S; pm, 4s. 4 pm,
54; pm, 81: pm. a: 10 pm. Al.
Highest, 55.6: lowest, 35.6.
Relative humidiity-s am. IS per
cent; pm, 20 per cent; s pm, a per
cent.
Rainfall Is pm. to p.m.), 0.2o.
Hours of sunshine. 49, Per cent of
possible sunshine. 46 per cent.
Temperature same day last year
Highest, As; lowest. 81.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States coast
and geodetic survey)
Today-Low tide, 2:27 am. and 2:42
pm; high tide, Sis am. and s:3s pm
Tomorrow-Low tide, 3:16 am. and
S:35 pm, high tide. s:O7 am. and $3.50
pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rose, 1904 am. sun sets.
SAG pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises, 1908 am; sun
sets, SAB pm.
Moon rises. 6:49 pm; sets, 1903 am.
Automobile lamps to be lighted one
half hour after sunset.
weather I'm Various Cities.
Evening star., 1922-02-12
PRESIDENT SCORED
FOR APPOINTMENT
Senator Harrison Declares
Mr.. Harding Violated
Civil Service Law.

Charges of violating the civil serv-
ice law were made against President
Harding yesterday in the Senate by
senator Harrison, democrat, Missis-
sippi, in an attack upon republican
management of government affairs.
In appointing French Crow as post
master of Marion. Ohio, his home city.
by executive order. Senator Harrison
said Mr.. Harding had stamped" the
law under foot. The appointment.
which Senator Harrison announced he
would oppose and urge be dismissed
| on the floor of the Senate, was. he de-
| clared. the most glaring incident in
the history Of civil service in the
United States"
How can followers of civil serv-
ice have any faith or confidence?' he
! asked. This is the beginning Of de-
! struction of the civil service system"
Lasker Also Attacked.
| Senator Harrison also attacked
Chairman Lasker of the Shipping
Board, declaring he had made state
ments regarding its alleged economy
| of administration which had not been
| preparation bill provision extending
the annual $4,000 travelling allowance
| fund Of the President for use for Off
cial entertainment purposes.
Chairman Warren Of the appropria-
/ tions committee defended the travel
| entertainment fund and called atten-
! ton to the expenditures abroad of
| former President Wilson. Senator
| Warren said that some millions Of
dollars" had been spent by Mr. Wilson
| land no accounting made for 1t yet"
| That Senator Harrison was seeking
| to inject partisan politics into the dis
| cussion was charged by Senator War
| rem, while Mr.. Harrison countered
with the statement that Senator War
rem had raised the question of parti-
| sanship.
Appointments Declared Farce.
Civil service administration also
was attacked again by Senator Cara
| way, democrat, Arkansas, and others.
Senator Caraway read letter from
the commission denying his recent
charges that examination marks had
been raised arbitrarily, and then re-
liberated the charges, citing alleged in :
istanceS in Arkansas postmastei
leases. Senator Caraway also charged
that former service men had been
turned down" in seeking positions as
postmasters.
| Senator Harrison said that 1t was
"a farce the way postmasters are ap-
pointed. Other appointments, he
added. were subject to the same in
dictment. Without republican politi-
cal influence. he declared, there was
mo chance to get a job under this ad-
ministration." This condition he said
in his opinion, resulted from orders
from above
Evening star., 1922-02-12
REPORT FIVE RoBBERIEs.

Carl A. Joerissen. 1919 Massachusetts,
avenue, reported TO the police the .snH Loss
Of q Iady's diamond pin valued at $500.
The pin disappeared from his home Fri
A solitaire diamond ring. an Eastern Star
ring and a gold bracelet holding wrist
,,rn tch were, stolen from the apartment
of Mrs. b. n. Flemmfng. 2120 G street.
She valued the jewelry at $165.
r. %. Richardson. 921 18th street, re-
,ortad his home was visited by q dupli-
eat cate = key worker. A watch. cross. gold
chain and .locket were stolen. They
Theft of a fur neckpiece, valued at
$50. was reported by Margaret Crawiey.
f72o H street. 1t was taken from her
home the past week.
eirn AFFAIRS to the Governor Of Shan
tmne. and participant in the Limitation
of arms conference. told the police OF
the theft of S547 from a bureau drawer
in his room at the Cairo Friday after
noon.
Evening star., 1922-02-12
WOMEN WELLPA|D
F0RFOOD EXHIBITS
Skilled Demonstrators at
Convention Hall Show, Be-
ginning Its Last Week.

The national food show and house
hold Exposition tomorrow afternoon
will begin its second and closing
week at Convention Hall
Local and national food manufac-
turers and dealers in household ap-
pliances have assigned their most ex-
perienced women with view to set
ting off their goods to the very best
advantage.
One of the demonstrators at gela-
tin booth is $100-a-week woman.
She's a natural born gelatin artist.
She can take any kind of fruit or veg
etable. throw it nonchalantly into a
pan Of gelatin. and turn out des-
sert. A big department store has an
strate aluminium pans and other
kitchen appliances. She can tell
housewives anything they want, to
know about kitchen equipment.
One exhibitor pays a pretty young
girl $50 a week to cook doughnuts
to patrons. Another exhibitor pays a
good-looking young woman SIS a
week to make biscuits for free dis
tribution.
Perry P. Patrick. secretary of the
Retail Grocers' Protective Association
plSuiCtS Tie SeCuHO week tHe
show will be even better attended
| than was the first week. Last week
! nearly 10000 persons viewed the sixty
| exhibits. Afternoon and evening ses.
| Sions will continue to be held.
| Tomorrow will be southeast grocers
day. Tuesday will be northeast gro.
GERS day. for those grocers east o!
! Sth street: Wednesday will be north
west grocers' day for those grocers
| south of L street. with members OF
| the Tennessee Society as added guests
| Thursday will be Georgetown grocers
day and Friday wlll be southwes,
| grocers' day. On these special days
| grocers in the various sections. along
with their wives and employees, viii
| be the guests of honor of the show.