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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-10-06
Scranton Family Holds Reunion.

On Sunday there was family
reunion at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ethan Scranton, who live on the old
home place of the Scranton family.
1t was the first gathering together of
the family in 10 years, John Scranton
and his ~ children and 10 grandchil-
dren being present. The youngest was
little Winona Duby, only two weeks
and three days old. A bountiful dinner
was served at noon by the host and
hostess.
Those from out of town present were
Mr.. and Mrs. G. ID. Timson of South
Hadley Falls, Mass, Mr.. and Mrs. Err.
nest Howe and eight children of viii.
mington. Misses Rose, Jennie, Nancy
Ida and Nettie Scranton and Arthur
Scranton of Brattleboro.
Those in town were: John Scranton
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Duby and six chill
dren, Mrs. Edna Duby' and three chill
dren, Mr.. and Mrs. f. A. Scranton ant
son. Leon, Ivan and Oscar Scranton
also Bion Worden and Warren FRANKLIN
of GuilfOrd, who were chauffeurs for the
Brattleboro delegation.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-10-06

DR.. Elmer w. Pike is the new medical
director at the University of Vermont.
DR.. Pike is a graduate of the medical
college of the university in the class of
1919. He succeeds DR.. David Marvin.
who has occupied the position of medical
director for about 10 years Dr. Marvin
will continue at the medical college as
professor of pharmacology. Luther Tar
bell. student in the second year of the
medical course, will act as assistant TO
DR.. Pike, taking charge of the athletic
training to a considerable extent
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-10-06

A loss of several thousand dollars was
caused Monday evening when fire dam
aged the plant of the l.. w. Webster
Mill Corporation at Randolph The
blaze was confined for the most part to
the glazing department. The origin of
the fire is unknown.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-10-06
VERMONT NEWS.

The jury in the case of George Lyons,
charged with the larceny of $4,000 from
the Central Vermont station Mt Richford,
returned verdict of not guilty about 9
o'clock. Friday night in St Adams.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-10-06

The annual meeting of the State Mer-
chants association will be held at Rut-
land Oct. "a and %. Plans discussed for
the meeting include the holding of a
get-together smoker on the evening of
Oct. "a and a business session the day
following and luncheon with addresses
by speakers of prominence.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-10-06

The Washington County Farmers Co
operative exchange of Montpelier has
filed articles of association with the Sec
rotary of state. making its capital stock
10000 1t has also filed notice of a
proposed issue of 1000 shares of CAPT
tai stock at So share.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-10-06

The prohibition party of the state has
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-10-06

filed with the secretary of state nomina-
tons for the straight Republican ticket
of state and congressional candidates as
their candidates. Section 1856 of the gen
cral laws relating to elections states that
when so nominated, candidates names
may go on both tickets if they so elect.
George G. Grandfeld of Fayston has
fled second petition with the clerk of
Washington county court and will con-
test with Herbert j. Slayton of Barre
for the Office of sheriff of Washington
county. Mr. Slayton is the Republican
nominee for the Office. having been nomi
mated by a majority of 10 votes over Mr.
Grandfcld.
The extensive set of farm buildings OF
Ora r. Whitney. better known as tn,
George w. Lynde property. in Williams
town were burned Tuesday night ant
with them were lost % head of cattle
two horses, four pigs. about 20 hens, Over
300 tons of hay, large quantity o.
grain, nearly all the farm machiner,
and implements. and considerable,
amount of household furniture. Th
loss is estimated from $4,000 to $50,
600. on which there was an insuranc
of $4,000.
The Washington times., 1922-03-12
Her Unwelcome Husband w. L. George

NO ] must face Z. TOO. ana !
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WHIST al TINS means 70 mel Sup
pose ! was TO 40 TINS ana tnsn ~
pent t. again Ia Do lonely ana
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Jon; them perhaps SOMEBODY eise
would think me just pretty enough
70 while away . year. Ia DO misers
able, and Ia give way, JUST not 70
be alone. Ia repeat again. Or
worse. perhaps, might DO dis
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Nov that - enough, said Brit
ford. sttempting masculine control.
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mo, Stephen. It's no good. ! can't
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can't let myself 70 to what would
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JDeins ioveo. Sooo neavens! don
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The Washington times., 1922-03-12

you are nUt p1ehSeu HHu
delighted with your bargain
return dress and every penny you |
have paid will be returned. Dress
Is good quality Irish unsWe. one
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The Washington times., 1922-03-12
Amaze Your Friends
Learn Music Quickly At Home
Through This Wonderful New Method Yeu Can Now
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asked daily. with my wondsrful easy
print and picture less0ns for begin-
ners. thsir progress has BEEN nothing
short Of astonishing.
Even II you don't know the drst
thing about music. don't know one
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The Washington times., 1922-03-12

ing lsssonA Which make every ytsp e
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With no strsnse!e around 70 embar-
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my method that children only 10 TO -
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The Washington times., 1922-03-12

musical ln1tru~
ment. And Ill
IN yssr scare
time 1T honAo
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To those not
ac q q q ! n I %
with my sye-
tern this may
sound like .
pretty strong
statement. Yet
I stand ready
to back MP ev-
cry word Of II.
l have taught
The Washington times., 1922-03-12

can gain-for
nm players and singer
mn are Always In de.
N mand 1t social gather.
ings OF every kind
ThoueAnds of our students
now play In orchsstras, at
dances. etc Many have or
chestras Of their own. why
can't you DO the samef
The Washington times., 1922-03-12
Hurry!

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The Washington times., 1922-03-12

no snun sSsn.S
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note.
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The Washington times., 1922-03-12

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The Washington times., 1922-03-12
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The Washington times., 1922-03-12

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The Washington times., 1922-03-12

music 20 0Ver NNN
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The Washington times., 1922-03-12
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The Washington times., 1922-03-12

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The Washington times., 1922-03-12
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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-03-02

The obvious solution of the govern
lnent's employment problem is the
Standardization and REIMBURSEMENT of
salaries. To be scientific, such re-
adjustment must rest upon careful
Reconsideration of the service. Con-
uitions are very different now, both
in regard to the functions of offices
and the cost of living, from what they
were when positions in the govern
ment service were first classified and
salaries assigned to those positions.
1t struck me that an interested party
in this inquiry into how the govern
ment conducts its business was the
employee himself. He ought to know
from actual daily experience some
thing about the mechanism of the
national business and the relations be-
tween the working force and employer.
1t was clearly impossible to talk to
the more than 10000 men and women
who work for the government but l
600 of them are banded together in an
association called the National Fedora
ton of Federal Employees. 1t Is a
regular labor union, and Is affiliated
with the American Federation of
Labor. 1t includes all classes of gov
eminent workers, technical and
scientific men, as we'll as clerks and
unskilled workers.
l asked the president of this en-
plOyees' union, Luther c. Steward, If
he and his associates were authorized
to speak for all its membership. He
assured me that they were.
So I asked him to tell me about the
conditions of government employment
and how the business was carried on.
l am glad l did, for what he told
me discloses not only facts but a
state Of mind existing among the en-
ployees which necessarily must be
taken into account in any considera-
tion of the efficiency and management
of our common business Here then
Is what the employees, who speak
through Mr.. Steward, have to say, and
the constructive program they present
for the Improvement of the service:
The civil service on its human side
consists of about 100000 men and
women engaged in the operation of an
Anticipated patched-up machine. Be
cause of the durability of its vital
parts and the faith and ability Of the
mess of the operatives the machine
still functions. But the parts are
ill-ftted, and many Of them are de-
fective. The managers and superln-
tendents Of the establishment, being
too often chosen for political reasons,
are frequently inexpert, and the operat-
ing system is clumsy and dis!olnted.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-03-02
MI.
WHY GOOD MEN QUIT

Go today into the Treasury depart
ment, the Department of Agriculture,
the Department of Commerce. or into
ment doing important technical work,
and they will tell you that their chief
difficulty is to retain competent en-
plOyees in the supervisory and tech
meal positions. Their turnover is alb
normally high in these positions.
Every day men leave the service
to accept private employment at ma
terially increased salaries so that the
departments are continuously going
through a process of selecting and
training executives and technical en-
ployees, only to lose them, as they be-
come really valuable, on account of
the inadequacy of their compensation.
The second factor which contrib
utes to the present ineffectiveness of
the government as a business estab-
lishment is found in the improper or
ganiZatiOn of the executive branch of
the government for effective service.
You are familiar, at least in general
way, with the defects of the present
administrative machinery.
You know for example, that the In
terror department now has jurisdiction
over a great number of bureaus of a
miscellaneous character that have
nothing to do with each other or with
the functions which the Interior de-
partment was originally established to
perform.
You know that many agencies have
been located in the Treasury depart
ment, the great fiscal department of
the government, which are purely non
fiscal in character, such as the coast
guard, the public health service, the
supervising architects office and the
bureau of war risk insurance.
You know that the great bulk of
the civil public works of the govern
ment are executed under the super
vision of the War department. although
the bureau of public roads is located
in the Department of Agriculture, and
the reclamation service in the Depart
ment of the Interior.
You know, Furthermore, of the in
dependent existence outside the juris-
diction of any of the great executive
departments of some 40-Odd boards
commissions, Offices and bureaus.
These are merely examples of con-
dition that would require volumes to
describe fully, but it is generally
known that the executive branch of the
government is at the present time IL
logically and uneconomically organ
lied in many important particulars.
II should be remembered, however,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-03-02
VIEW OF THE EMPLOYEE

The employees are recruited under
a law which provides a test of
qualifications, and probably nine-tenths
of the rank and file have satisfactorily
passed the entrance test. But the
better positions, say from $1,000 up
ward, are usually occupied by political
appOinteeS. Another considerable
group of employees get their appoint
ments by executive order, waving
Civil-service tests of fitness.
The newcomer in the service, there
fore, finds himself up against a mini
mum of opportunity for promotion,
with the disheartening knowledge that
the advancement which Is earned by
competence is all too likely to be given
20 the friend or political supporter Of
some congressman or executive who
wishes to pay political debt. And
the employee is subject to dismissal
at the will Of the executive of his de-
partment, unless he can bring sufficient
political influence to bear.
In other words, the civil-service law
is not backed up by enforcing power in
the Civil Service commission. 1t
merely recruits the applicants for en-
trance. Thereafter the employees
fate is largely matter of his own
luck and negative passive merit. There
is no system by which he may be
fitted to the job, and no protection
against dismissal, unless the employee
himself can show that the reason is
political or religious. "For the good
of the service" as the law reads,
covers every other charge which the
executive official may bring. There is
no court of appeal.
Such is the oppressive, incentlveless,
vitiating atmosphere of the govern
ment service. 1t STILES initiative,
illustrates ambitions and reduces the
mass of employees to more or less
passive state, which Is permeated by
sense of fear.
In such an atmosphere, naturally
enough, the physical conditions of en-
ployment are far from what they
should be, and the government loses
efficiency, as does any other employer
where the wage scale is Inadequate
and unstandardlzed, where sanitary
conditions are bad and hours of work
too long and irregular.
The wage scale is so low that the
Civil Service commission has difficulty
in securing properly qualified appli-
cants, and throughout the service the
turnover Is high. Employees doing
the same kind Of work often receive
widely different rates of pay; ex-
perlenced workers often receive less
than beginners, and virtually every
kind Of inequality and injustice exists.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-03-02
By EDWARD G.LOWRY
Copyright. Western Newspaper Union

that even with an ideal personnel and
a perfect organization it is doubtful
If the high degree of economy and
efficiency that characteriZes private
business can ever be attained in the
government offices. This is so because
economies made by government Off
Gals are not transformed into divi-
dends for themselves as they are in
private business.
There is an impression in congress
and throughout the country that men
of great ability are not found in gov
eminent service; that the salaries are
not sufficient to attract and hold them.
On the contrary, there are a great
many people of distinguished ability
in the government service. One is
more and more impressed by that fact
especially since the war sent to Wash
ington so many men OF large means
and famous names with whom the
government employees could be COM
pared. The comparison was time and
again to the advantage of the govern
ment employee. But the salaries are
not the attraction; it is the work it.
self. This is we'll understood by some
eminent observers of public life. Sec
rotary of State Hughes declared him
self as follows before the advisory
committees of the war risk insurance
bureau:
1t has been my experience that with
the higher officers, the officers OF greater
institutions, where efficiency is rewarded
by public representation-while the field
is a limited one because of the great OPP
portunity to men of ability-it is still ell
tirely possible to draw to the public seTV-
ice men of great ability and distinction,
because of the desire to render pubic
service, and the number of men VINO are
available for that purpose, while rela-
lively small, is still sufficient if the ap-
pointing officer wants men of that class.
In order to obtain them, however, he
must give a free field. He must not in
terfere as to political action to control
administration tendencies and must per
nit them to be given the reward which
a well-Conducted office of importance Will
give to it's incumbent in the public eSti-
nation.
NOW llle dllAlSulIy AAlNi SSNSSS "4lNit 49,
pass those heads that get the credit and
come to the technical expert who has
got to do the regular work and upon
whose efficiency the operation of the de-
partment finally depends. These men are
little known. The public hasn't time even
to learn their names. They are interested
in work to a degree of being willing to
make sacrifices.
There is active competition for men of
brains and great ability of that sort, and
the government will never be served I'M
less it pays the price for those men. Now
l think that is plain situation You
may be able to get a director in the bu-
reau of war risk insurance for 5000
year, or for nothing at all, but you can
not get an actuary. You cannot get in
surance men. You cannot get superin-
tendents. That would be my judgment.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-03-02
TOOLS The BUSY
GARDENER NEEDS
Hoe, Rake and Spade, The Com
bination Soil TiIIers Find Abso-
luteIy Necessary.
WHEEL HOE IS LABOR SAVER
Little Implement Suitable for Small or
Large Garden; Trowels Are Handy;
Spraying Outfits Are Es-
sential.

With the first warm days of spring
sounding the earth call, there is a
hgsty scurrying around for the tools
OF the gardening cult. A gardener can
| get along fairly well with four, Il spade
{ or spading fork, hoe, II rake and IL
| troWel. 1t is even possible to get along
without the last, but who wants to?
The art of gardening is reaching
zach a point of special development
! taat there are tools for almost every
thing and the wise gardener by a care
Eful selection will ease his work as
much as possible by securing appro-
pirate working implements.
The greatest labor saver for gardens
OF any extent is Il little wheel hoe.
This saves many headache, does the
w@sk thoroughly, and has appliances
for various purposes which are inter
chAngeable from a little pillow share
to cultivators of various kinds. 1t can
be used in the smallest garden.
There are numerous hoes of various.
: types and designed for different pur-
p0ses. The pointed hoe for making
lows is a convenient tool. The hoe.
with rake teeth on the back of the
-lade is one of the very handiest all
stOund garden tools for light work
there is. 1t is particularly well adapt
III for women gardeners. Three toOthed
Cultivator hoes do a fine job of STIR
ring the soil. SCuffle or shove hoes as
| they are sometimes called that can be.
pushed instead Of pulled, permit hoe
! Ing rows which are too close to walk
between conveniently.
Trowels of vario0s shapes to suit
various plants are now on the market,
stiff, sharply angled small bladed trow-
Cts are ideal for splitting off pieces
from perennials which have grown 50
large they need dividing for their best
growth. They are fine to set under
Fecalcitrant carrot or parSnip whose
leaves are so tender they part com
pany from the root, leaving it in the
ground.
Long bladed trowels are especially
adapted for digging holes for gladiOlus
or other bulbs in the spring and tu-
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-03-02
CHICKEN FENCE WIRE HANDY
Small Gardeners Will Find the Woven
TWo-lnch Mesh Valuabe-Takes
Place of Stakes.

Many vegetable and Towering
vines can be successfully grown on
chicken fence wire. In the fall the
wire can be taken down and used for
succeeding years for similar purposes.
1t will enable the small gardener to
raise more vegetables and flowers than
If they were allowed to lie on the
ground and spread out over valuable
space.
Cucumbers, lima and climbing string
beans, nasturtums and numerous 9TH
er vegetables Of spreading variety, as
well as almost any vine-howering
plants can be successfully trained on
the wire trelis permitting of the use
of the ground space ordinarily covered
by vines being used Cor something else
Give the vine plants plenty II air and
sunshine, and water when needles, and
they will give an excellent accounting
Of themselves on the wire.