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Evening star., 1922-06-16
BIG WATER SAVING
-
IN UNITING PLANTS
Combining Of Printing Office
and Capitol Power Sys-
tens Urqed.

Saving a million gallons of water
q day at a time when the District
Commissioners are seeking to effect
water economy Is but one Of tho tre-
mendous savings now being urged
through having tho government
printing Office furnished with light.
heat and power from the Capitol
power plant.
Incidentally, this would also mean
that the Washington city post office
would also be served from the Capitol
power plant through the government
printing Office.
George Carter. the public printer.
who originated this PROPOSITION, and
Capitol. with general supervision over
the Capitol power plant. appeared
yesterday before the House appro-
priations committee. urging that an
item Of $275,000 to effect these econo-
mics be included in the deficiency bill,
which Is now being framed.
Carter's Plan Outlined.
The proposition made by Public
Printer Carter IS briefly this: The
government printing office power
plant is in about the same situation
as the Capitol power plant. the boil
ers going to the bad. Mr.. Carter
wishes to avoid the necessity of re-
building his plant. He wants to take
electricity for heat. light and power.
and later steam. from the Capitol
plant. He argued that there was no
need of rebuilding two plants. He told
the appropriations committee that he
believed he can get the best service
at cost the same as he is now fur
nishing 1t to the city post office by
hooking in on the Capitol plant.
The Capitol plant is already serving
At cost the coast survey. the housing
corporation and has an intercommuni-
eating line with the navy yard.
The present consumption OF water
at the government printing office is
approximately 100000 gallons day.
and he believes that he can relieve the
city water plant to the extent OF
about 100000 gallons day.
Saving in Coal Hauling.
The public printer would also effect
big saving by having the additional
space now occupied by the boiler
rooms. g.
There would be a considerable saw
ing. also, on the hauling of coal. The
Capitol plant has a siding on the rail-
dumped without any hauling charges
Architect Woods of the Capitol es-
timated that the Capitol power plant
can practically double it's capacity
with approximately the present force
and can produce current considerably
cheaper for all of the government
agencies. getting power from 1t at cost.
Evening star., 1922-06-16
Political
Surveys

From now until the No
vember elections Star cor
respondents are in the field
keeping in close touch with
the progress of the, political
1og-rolling and reporting
for your information the
trend of sentiment in each
important locality.
Evening star., 1922-06-16
The Features Of
Editorial
. Section

A unique feature with
: The Sunday Star, read by
men and women who seek
to keep abreast of big and
vitality important events in
the nation and the world.
1t is authoritative and in
forming, but not dull.
Evening star., 1922-06-16
TheStage
and Screen

Everybody is a "fan,"
either of the Movie or the
Theater. SO that the page
of theatrical and screen
news which is a regular
feature of The Sunday Star
furnishes an interesting
hour to its thousands of
readers. Reliable news
and intimate side-lights on
plays and players.
Evening star., 1922-06-16
Store
News

The Washington mer-
chants place before Star
readers the intensely inter
esting news of the shops
Important news because it
tells of merchandise oppor-
tunities in which every
man, woman and child is
intimately concerned. You
get the unabridged store
news In The Star.
Evening star., 1922-06-16
Are Interesting
Anne
Rittenhouse

Her weekly Fa S hio n
Letter from Paris is eag-
erly looked for by feminine
Washington, who have
learned by experience to
trust her forecasting of
fashion and find in her re-
sumo of her visits to the
famous designers studios
in Paris both entertain
ment and valuable sugges-
ton.
Evening star., 1922-06-16
The
Comics

Your funny friends will
be on hand next Sunday in
their four : page . colored
section cutting their lu-
dicrous antics that will
wiring a hearty laugh from
the most stoical. The
Comic Section belongs to
the whole family.
Evening star., 1922-06-16
TWO BILLS FAVORED.
Senate Committee Endorses Meas
ures Relating to District,

Chairman Ball Of the Senate Dis
trict committee yesterday reported
favorably from the District commit
tee a bill to exempt property owned.
by the D. A. r., In addition to Memo
rial Continental Hall. from taxation.
Later in the day he reported favor.
ably the bill to extend the time In
may continue to use the alley dwell
ings. The bill extends the time until
June. 1923.
Evening star., 1922-06-16
For the
Fiisher-folk

During the "open sea-
son" you'll find in Fridays
and Saturdays Star the :
very latest news of the
conditions prevailing at the
fishing grounds up and
down the river. You'll ap-
preciate this information
and can govern your week.
end plans accordingly.
Evening star., 1922-06-16
Pink
Section

The Stars staff of
sporting writer's is COM
posed of men who have
intimate knowledge of
both the popular pastimes
and those who are en-
gagged in them. Not only
in professional. but in the
amateur circles-at home
and away from home. To
keep posted read The
"Pink Section"
Evening star., 1922-06-16
TheGir!ls'
Page

The things in which all
girls are personally inter
ested are discussed each
Sunday in the Girls Special
Page-edited by a girl who.
thinks, and acts, and views
things like. every other
girl. And writes about
them understandingly.
Evening star., 1922-06-16

Summer schools, arranged by the
League Of Nation Union, are to be
conducted this year in many towns
in Europe.
Evening star., 1922-06-16
Rotogravl!lre
- 81 =
Section

One of the most popular
features with The Sunday,
Star because.it presents in,
vivid. picture those people
and places: and events . of
which you have: recently
been reading. ,Rotogravure.
is the most successful proc
ess of reproduction by
which.no detail is lost.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-11-06

gone conclusion; and the man in the
chair of governor is not, after all. the
most powerful factor in state govern
ment because his functions are execu-
tive-putting laws into effect and ad-
ministering something set up by the
Legislators. The ground work of gov
eminent is the law-making body. Elect
reasonably wise and economical men
to the Iegislature--the House in par
ticular-and you win place your af-
fairs in safe hands. A wise and eco
nomical body Of legislators will refuse
to surfeit us with new laws; they will
not run the state into a large ex-
pense account-they may, indeed, tend
to reduce that excessive expense ac.
count. The direct state tax may be
sliced if not wholly eliminated. There
fore, it is imperative that the voters
Of Vermont exercise great care in Sc
their legislators among those
still left in the contest after the prun-
ing process Of the primary. If there
Is left to the voters a choice of two
men or more pick the better man for
The job even If you have to step over
The political boundaries to do 50. Give
Us a wise and economical legislature
md we will be willing to trust some
what to providence that our other off
,ers cannot go far wrong in the con
luct Of our state government. Voters
Everywhere ought to make this a per
'onal matter and go to the polls to-
morrow to secure the wise and eco
legislature, which we SO much
Itand in need of. Go to the polls.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-11-06

vent his spleen upon a few superin-
tendents whom. perhaps, an unkind
fortune has led across our state border.
line and into a connection with the
semi-political aggregation generally
known as our state educational sys.
tent
Does your correspondent believe that
the former provision Of the school law
demanding an educational qualification
for supervisors was sacrificed by the
Hewitt bill to favor uneducated aspir,
ants from other statesf
! would ask him IL the purpose Of
the change was not to care for the po-
litical future of native Incompetence,
possibly not far removed from the leg.
isIating body, and If the law has not
functioned oftener in this direction.
In asking this. no reflection is in
on the many competent and
educated vermonters who really serve
their districts az supervisors and who
probably feel n sense OF humiliation at
the low standards set and who would
welcome a standard as high or higher
than that required before the enact
Of the Hewitt bill.
Enquirer.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-11-06

After travelling all the way from
Florida to play Harvard, the Univer-
sity of Florida football team must
have felt il rather calling to be pitted
against the second and third team men
at Cambridge. The Floridians prob
ably would have relished a good, sound
trouncGg from the varsity better than
being beaten decisively from second
and third raters, as they were. A great
deal of the glamor Of the trip was
taken away by being denied the OPP
p~ortunity of meeting the real Harvard
team. Harvard, if she felt it beneath
her dignity to put the varsity against
the Florida team, ought never'to have
scheduled such a game in the first
place.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-11-06
commends Jackson and shurtleIf.

Editor, Times: | have noted in our
fairly courageous and independent pa
pers the opinion expressed that closer
political contests in Vermont would
bring better government. ] believe you
men are sincere in so saying.
This campaign should not close with
out a good word for the mayor Of our
largest city and the recent mayor of
our state capital, probably the ablest
pair of executives ever nominated in
Vern6,nt for governor and lieutenant
governor. The conditions in Vermont
call loudly for such men as jackson
and Shurtleff.
! find that local conditions hold
good in most sections in Vermont; our
several industries closed since Janu-
ary. 1922, farmers and small merchants
depressed, about two miles of empty
cars on our unused granite railway, un-
wise and unheard Of taxes from spend-
ing by state authorities. Winter com
ing on.
1t is certainly time that more serious
and truthful attention be given to con-
ditions in Vermont.
John J.. Wilson.
Bethel, VT, Nov. 4, 1922.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-11-06
WHAT THE SHERIFF FIGHT
SINNERS DOWN TO.

The contest for sheriff of Washing
ton county is perhaps the outstanding
features of the election as far as the
voters Of the county are concerned. A
certain pre- primary hostility to Dep
uty Sheriff H. j. 5layton of Barre,
marshalled under the name of George
c. Grandfeld of Fayston, has been
fanned and kept agoing in spite Of
the fact that Mr.. Grandfeld was de
feated for the Republican nomination
by Mr.. Slayton and it IL said that the
persons back Of this insurgent nov
ment viii endeavor to have "stickersr
used in order to thwart, if possible,
the election Of the regular nominee Of
the Republican party.
The logical outcome of such an in.
surgent movement would be, if the
movement gains any considerable
strength, the election of the Democrat
10 candidate Tor sheriff and the prob
able appointment Of Democrats as dep
uty sheriffs as far as practicable, be-
cause of the splitting up of the Re
publican votes Of the county.
No one doubts but what a Demo.
crat could carry on the work of the
sheriff's Office as well as. a Republi-
can; but il the Republican voters of
the county wish to maintain their
control in county affairs it is up to
them to go to the polls in full force
tomorrow and nullify the efforts Of
the insurgents by voting for Deputy
Sheriff Fl. J.. Slayton of Barre, a man
who has held the position Of deputy
sheriff and similar offices for quarter
Of a century and who is well fitted
by that experience TO take charge of
the Office of sheriff of the county.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-11-06

In other words, Germany win begin
to think about paying PREPARATIONS
when the allies turn over SOC, 1000 900
marks to the German government as a
loan. Carrying the same principle
down into private affairs. you may
expect a request for a loan when you
e. to collect a bill. In private affairs,
such a request would be considered
the height of insolence.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-11-06

A supplementary gift Of $4,000
makes a total Of $4,000 that Mr.. and
Mrs. George l.. Durham of Brattleboro
have recently given to the Brattleboro
Memorial hospital for the erection of
a nurses home as a memorial for their
daughter. These gifts should aid very
greatly in carrying on the work of
that institution and are no doubt
much appreciated by the public of
Brattleboro and vicinity.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-11-06
The Caddie's Suggestion.

A clergyman playing on the famous
golf course at st. Andrews got irto
bunker called "Hol." He asked his
eaddie why the bunker was so named
and Tas informed that IL was because
oncdsa player gets into it he cannot
get out. Calling for his. niblick the
clergyman made a fine shot and landed
his bali on the green. He turned to his
caddie, What do you say to that
nowf" he asked triumphantly.
"All l have TO say, sir, is when We
dee, tax yer niblick wi ye." answered
the youngster.-Boston Transcript.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-11-06
T ToTHE EDITOR
what He Got Ry Radio.

Editor, Times: We radio fans arc
always looking for clear. loud reports
from distant stations. Saturday eve
ming NOV. A. | picked up
w. X. A. G., Lincoln, Neb.
w. o. G., Davenport, Ia.
w. B. r., Charlotte, n. c.
w. II. A. s., Louisville. Ky.
These stations came in as loud aud
clear as do nearby senders. ! am using
a Westinghouse r. c. receiving set, 100
feet single wire antenna.
Let's hear from other fans"
Ralph, w. Putnam.
Waterbury, VT.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-11-06
To-MoRRow's ELECTION IN
VERMONT.

That which really counts most in
the general election in Vermont to-
morrow is the selection of men to rep
resent the towns and cities In the leg
islature. The governorship is a fore
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-11-06
More About Superintendent.

Editor, Barre Times:
"There are some critics so. with spleen
diseased
They scarcely come inclining to be
pleased;
And sure he must have more than NOR
tai spell
Who pleases one against his will"
Why should "one who feels anxiety
for the young" in your Fridays issue,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-11-06

"This is a Democratic year. de-
clares Chairman Hull of the Democrat
IL national committee. Talks almost
like an automobile dealer, doesn't he?
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-11-06

Ii you want a deluge, just ask an
office holder what he has done to mer-
IL retention in office.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-11-06

Bonar Law may be premier but
Lloyd George is the premier attraction
for British multitudes.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-11-06
"A Lesson From Poetry
The following lines were written by a twelve year-old g
of whose poems has recently appeared:

The following lines we're written by a twelve yearod girl an edition
of whose poems has recently appeared:
LONELINESS that dies when Ifogt
Comes alive when 4 remembrs
-HhaC okHng s
To think that lines Of such rre beauty should spring from the magma
tive mind of a girl Of only twelve years seems almost unbelievable, tut not
only these but many more of equal merit havec come from this youthful
New England genius whose work is being justly given a prominent place Elm
contemporary poetry.
How true I'll tina. the beautiful things, the vrtuous things and the
worthwhile things die when We forget them and the memory Of them stTs
us again to strive to preserve them anew in thought and deed
Thrift is virtue it is valuable as a noher of character and it on
duces to right thinking and clean living, but it will soon die if we forget it.
When We stop to think what thrift has done for the development O or
national character; how it went hand in hand with the religious life OF our
forefathers, we may well pause in the rush of our present day existence to
ask if w have forgotten it. Let the remembrance of these sturdy men
and their habiuai frugaHty come alive to us each day and stir us to
make the most of our opportunities. Let us remember that many OF the
someone. The thrift Of former generation has contributed to the prog
ress o. the present one.
You may think that the act of coming to the bank with just a small de-
post is a little thing, but its result toyou may be great, and it may infu-
enceo others and turn them in the right direction.
Peoples National Bank of Barre
4per cent The Only National Bank in Barre per cent
The New York herald., 1922-11-05

break in the middle with their own weight.
Or perhaps it could be said that an epic is
like one of those prehistoric animals which
were so huge that in the end they couldn't
get food enough to keep them alive. There
were several people in America who felt
that a new and different kind of nation
must produce a special brand of genius at
once, and they set. about proving 1t by
writing epics. But. as you may imagine,
these dreary, blown up, manufactured
poems, so far from being native, only
showed that their authors had selected
something they admired best in classics or
in English literature and tried to outdo it.
All this. of course. was not unnatural
or even unpleasing in new nation just
born out of revolution. You expect it
to brag a little. This epic phase soon
passed away. but another and worse form
of the same thing has unfortunately char
acterized America almost ever since. We
shall see that many of itr most patriotic and
devoted citizens it has from time to time
condemned because they ventured to
censure this habit of talking big. When
a boy puts on his long pants he gets sud-
ueHly very loucny ABOUT ms new man
hood and constantly suspects he, is still
being treated like a child. Principally he
resents any one finding fault with him.
Our new nation, unfortunately, did not
get over its long pants age for a century.
Even to-day we as a people are still
somewhat intolerant of our most earnest
voices when they dare to suggest that
We or our form of Government are cap
able of improvement. Even yet, there
are not many wise enough to see and own
what the wise Franklin saw in the begin
ming. He saw that our Constitution,
splendid as it was, should have been better
and could have been so had 1t not been
forced to an all around compromise in order
to get itself passed at all. "It is" said
he. "as near perfect as any numerous body
of men could bring it. handicapped by their
prejudices, their passions, their local in
terests and their selfish views"
The New York herald., 1922-11-05

You know how this works yourself. After
a quarrel is over you can think of far
more stinging remarks than when you
were at it hammer and tongs. But the
occasion has gone by for saying them. and
you wouldn't want to say them if it hadn't.
now that your blood has cooled off bit.
Then there were also many songs and
ballads about the incidents of the war.
These, too, are never likely to Seem as
good to a later gener: ton as they seemed
at the time. But some of them were cer-
tainly much better thar the one whic:.
stuck so long in peoples minds that it re-
mains there now as a na tional song This
is Yankee Doodle. Have you ever WON
dered how it was that a patriotic song
could be speaking of dandy" and mac
aroni" and have such a ridiculous word as
doodle in it? 1t was largely an old
song and sung to an o,d Dutch tune; and
it seems to be the original chorus which
we sing now. 1t made fun of people who
dressed up in fine clothes and thought
they were fine fellows. Perhaps the slang
word we sometimes use now for that kind
of fellow, dude" came from the same idea
as doodle" "Macaroni" was the slang
word they used then and it meant about
The New York herald., 1922-11-05

the same as dandy" does now when you
mean a chap who thinks more of his
clothes than the man inside them. SO
when the British soldiers sang this song
about the American soldiers they meant
to convey that they Were just play soldiers
and not much as fighters. The first COM
plete set of new words to this old song
was THE Yankees Return From Camp
and was written in 1775. The Yankees,
you see, took a song which made fun of
them and turned it into victory song.
Naturally it was very successful.
Such songs to be sHccessful do not need
TO have any literary quality. If they have
a good catchy tune which can stir people,
that is all that is necessary. 1t is almost
like a school cheer. Rah, rahl rahi Bi!
boi BAH" will make a much better cheer
than if you had good words or even real
ones. 1t is the way you say them which
has the inspiring quality you want in a
cheer. So with almost all national songs.
1t seems to be the tune which makes peo-
pie remember them.
Another national song of which we can
be a little prouder has entirely original
words and an original tune. 1t is Hail,
Columbia" written in 177S, when it looked
as though Americans might go to war with
France. For the two allies were quarreling
with each other about their rights almost
as soon as the Allies of the world war fell
to quarreling about theirs; and in that
The New York herald., 1922-11-05

case, as now, the quarrel did not spring so
much from the Governments as from the
passions of unreasonable and selfish people.
The third song which stuck in peoples
minds we can approve still more as liter
ature. This is "The Star Spangled Ban
ner," written actually during the lombard
ment of fort in the second war with Eng
land in 1872. 1t is the words of this song
and it's origin rather than the singableness
of its spirited tune which has made it one
of our chief national songs. The foremost
one of ALL our national hymn, was not
composed until much later, in 1882.
Many people deplore the fact that my
Country, 'Tis of Thee" is not more national.
A witty person has said that it is only an
American translation of the English ma
tional hymn and set to the same tune,
which is German. But why is this so de-
plorable? We are not brand new fact
in the worlds history, and all the world
has had share in the making of us. Some
day new national hymn will arise which,
while it will not. we hope depreciate the
contributions other nations have made to
our success will spring more from our own
soil. But one cannot force national hymns
in a hothouse, and we must not be impa-
The New York herald., 1922-11-05

tient. 1t took many times our national
lifetime to produce those of other coun-
tries.
Impatience was probably one of the
reasons why the period just after the
Revolution produced such poor literary
we were a wonderful phenomenon and
should talk like one. Many enthusiastic
patriots even thought we should invent
at once new language and not speak
English any more. The people whose
writing was not called forth solely by the
civil and political strife of the time feared
they would be disgracing America unless
they talked in a bigger way than their
voices would let them. They were some
thing like boy who has just put on long
hair up. You feel you can't stand straight
and tall enough unless you stand like a
ramrod and tiptoe at that What hap-
pened in this period when writer's felt they
must develop over night a big. different
and national voice was just what happens
when you try to stand long on your tip
toes. Stiff as you are. you wobble
About the tallest form of literature
which can be written is an epic 1t tells
the story of the race or of humanity. In
deed. it is so big that people haven't writ
ten any for a very long time, because now
adays we think that to tell things on such
a colossal scale IS likely to make them