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The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-03-15
BOSTON & MAINE
MAY BUY THE
ST ] & | { R R
Bill introduced in Mass
achusetts Legislature
to Authorize 1t
Nc FOUR BOSTON and Main,

Nc FOUR BOSTON and Maine
A bill authorizing the Boston
and Maine railroad to acquire the
franchise and property of sew
cIal subsidiary lines in New Eng
land was introduced Monday in
the Massachusetts legislature The
petitioner was J. H. HuStis, pres
idtnt of the Boston and Maine
railroad.
The bill covers the following
corporations: The Nashua and
Acton railroad, organized under
tic laws Of Massachusetts, and
New Hampshire, and the Ncr-
mont Valley railroad, organ
i2ed under the laws of Yer
mont, the entire capital stock Of
each Of which is owned by the
Boston and Maine railroad; the
Sullivan County railroad, organiz-
cd under the laws of New Ilamp-
SHIRE, all the capital stock Of
which is owned by the Vermont
Valley railroad; the Barre and
Chelsea Railroad company and
Montpelier and Wells River rail
read, both organized under the
lows of Vermont, substantially the
entire capital stock of each Of
which is owned by the Vernon
Valley railroad; the York IIarbor
and Reach Railroad company, or
ganized under :hc laws OF Maine
and the St Johnsbury and Lake
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-03-15

for a ~ per cent increase IN con-
tract rates among other things
bile the mine owners are on re-
cord as favoring a decrease below
the present working basis.
The scale committee of the coal
workers is under instruction of
the Shamokin convention to order
a suspension of mining if a satis-
factory agreement is not in sight
by April list.
A shortage of anthracite coal is
not expected unless the expected
suspension should run into the
summer. The miners enter the
Joint conference determined they
said, to resist with all their power
any attempt to reduce their pre-
sent wage scale.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-03-15
LOCAL CHAMPS
WHIP BELLOWS
FALLS l6 TO IA
St. Johnsbury HoOpsters
Defeat Picked Five of
BaSketeerS
Special to the Caledonian- Record
BELLOWS FALLS. March -

Special to the Caledonian- Record
BELLOWS FALLS. March Is
-Clinching beyond the faintesC
shadow of suspicion clcan-cut title
to the championship of Vermont,
the St Johnsbury American Legion
Company ID basketball tossers de-
feated the cream of the best coutr
material Bellows Falls could as
cmblc last night. Battling at high
speed throughout the contest, the
visitors from upstate forced the
issue at all times and finally emcr-
ged from the fracaS by the score
of 16 to Ia.
Just as in the evcntful game
with Brattlcboro the evening prev
ious, "Fitz" Marshall, the pride Of
Fitzdale--and now especially OF
St. JohnHbury-showed the local
fans the stuff they make basket
GERS of in the Maple Sugar village
in Caledonia county Playing
shoulder to shoulder with Marshall
continually was Lucky" Fisk who
duplicated Marshall's trio Of pref
ty hcaves fom the court.
In the backficld, "W hitey' Du-
mas won undyin" praise from the
local critics of the court game by
his unusual guarding and stick-to-
is-ivcness. Fans here said that he
was perhaps the best looking back
field man they have seen cavort on
the Bellows Falls court this sea-
son. Whitley tailed d neat shot and
"Puss" Conner was also RESPONSE
bic for another.
For Bellows Falls, Barry the
husky pivotal man and Carl Lind
strom were the bright and shining
lights, feeding G.. Fontaine the
trio of clever shots which he
dumped into the hammock. NJ.
Fontainc also turned in a very
crcditable exhibition at left for
ward.
At the end of the first period.
the score stood tie with the score
8 to 8. Before the conclusion of the
next gtanza, the invaders from the
north country had forced into the
lead 16 to 10 and maintained tA
Hood inSpitc of the fresh recruits
injected into the contest by Bel
lows Falls.
The contest was ono of the
clcancst seen hrc this var, and wa
attended by a record crowd. The
summary:
O. IOhpr b,,,.,- 1f
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-03-15
ALL SECTORS IN so.
AFRICA ARE QUIET

LONDON, March 15-With The
sectors Of the affected areas in
South Africa cleared of rebels cX-
cept certain portions of the Johan-
nesburg the STRUGGLE apparently
had entered is final phase. Jcppcs-
town, in the east ends of Johan-
nesburg, seems to be the rincipal
remaining place of resistance. Ar
tillery tanks and airplaneS, were
used in the canture Of Fordsburg
from the revolutionist>. They cap
itulated after Is minutes of bonn
bardment.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-03-15
GUESTS OF RENO HOTEL
ESCAPE FROM FIRE

RENO, Nevada, March 10
Scores of guests escaped from up
per windows in their nipht clothes
when the Riverside Hotel was des-
troyed by fire early this morning
A check was tal'ted to learn if any
guests were missing. No serious
injured were reported.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-03-15
RE OPEN DEBATE.
ON A-POWER PACT

WASHINCTON. March Is
Tho first of the proposed amend
mcntt to the nact having been .c-
icctcd Nv Division almost on
party lines, the A-Powcr Pacific
treaty continued tcfo go the 9cratG
TO-DAY With prospects Of anothc'
lengthy debate.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-03-15
IRISH FACTIONS REACH
NEW AGREEMEN'

TEMPLEMORE. Ireland,
MAJ ch 1.-the dispute between
different factions OF Irish army
troops over the occupation of the
barracks here has been amicably
adjusted as the result of a visit
Of Owen O'Dutfy, chief of stat
o. the Irish Republican army.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-03-15

Referee, Tyler. Timer GRAY
Scorer. Marlborough. Time, 2-15
and lip minute pcriodS
Manager Harold L. CaSwcll and
his basketball championS of Yer
mont returned to st. JchnsbuI"-
this morning, with big victories
over the two fastest ouintet> in
Southern Vermont. Brattlehoro
and Bellows Falls Monday nipht
the Brattloboro Athletics were de
feated in the only contest which
.thev have lost on their own floor
I'm three years.
Thouoh aided by the fast. t
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-03-15
STRIKE FIGHT NOW
BEFORE LEGISLATURE

PROVIDENCE, March b
With three bills involving the AZ
hour week UP for consideration to-
day in the Legislature the state
house became the center of inter
est in the Rhode Island strike
situation, Thomas f. Mcmahon
president of the United Textile
workers and several of his lies-
tenants were prepared to ta'-e
part in discussion of the bill.
Representatives Of the mill owners
on the other hand were making
determined efforts to head off Il
48-hour week for women and child-
rem over Is years Employers IL
terests of the state focused their
fight upon having the bill referred
to u committee or continued on the
calendar. Labor reuresentativc
urred the bill be voted on.
Striking textile operatives Of the
Blackstone valley had planned 10
a Semble at the state house today
for Il demonstration hut this ar
rangemcnt was cancelled by Their
leaders, In y petition to the legis-
laturc a king that action on The
IovCcdcr bin be deferred. Eleven
cotton manufacturers declared
that it would be unfair to adcst
the f8-hour week in Rhode Island
while industries in other states
competing with Rhode Island in
Gua I,ip, had lonrcr hour.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-03-15
ANTHRACITE MINERS
AND OWNERS ARE
IN CONFERENCE
Parties Enter Wage Agreement Con-
ference In Belligerent Mood and
Outcome Feared
(Ry the Associated Press)

NEW YORK March 15-Anthlacite coal miners and
operators prepared today to begin negotiations OF
new wage schedule be effective April 1s when the
wage The miners are asking
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-03-15
WALL STREET BROKERS
INYc IhIIAI 4

NEW YORK, March 15-ISador
Friedman and George Markle on,
among the first Wall Street brok-
crs to be indicted during the
bucket shop investigation conduct
ed by the district attorneys office,
pleaded guilty in supreme court
today to grand larceny. They will
be sentenced March 20.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-03-15
Whole City Business Block
Destroyed by ConfIagration
One Firemen Killed and Manv
Are 1njured--- 21 Story
Office Building Ruined
(By the Associated Press)

CHICAGO, Ill., March 15-A SPECTACULAR morning fire
today destroyed full OF business buildings lust out
side Chlcagos loop district with estimated at from
$10,0O0,O0U to $15,OO0 00O0
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A Newspaper Covering
the Entire Northeast Sec
ton of Vermont State
Every Working Day.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-03-15
The Weather

Fair tonight and Thurs
day. Colder tonight.
Moderate to fresh north
to northwest winds.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-30

Newton D. Baker emerges from obscurity to accept place on the new arbitrational court of the International Chamber of Com merce We've missed Newt-and Newt's pipe
 * < x
 woman diplomat says she can't marry because diplomacy and matrimony don't mix We've always been under the impression that most happy marriages were due to diplomacy.
 
 The Prince of Wales should be permitted to stay in England long enough to marry. After that he might not object to visiting remote possessions of the far-flung British empire.
 %fx
 "John the Barber's" wife has a vindictive nature. After pistoling her sister for stealing Johns affections, she professed desire to see how deep her victim would be buried
 *
 John Lewis and other labor leaders have spent great deal of money travelling about on luxurious trains, but the labor leader is worthy, we suppose, of his hire With the reappearance of the feminine ear and longer skirts in sight, the fair sex is beat ing back to something or other, it's hard 70 say what.
 Spurred to action, President Harding has ceased initiating what must be his favorite character in Wilkins Micawber
 #
 We might as well adopt "footpadette" to describe female holdup artist. A British newspaper calls our Nancy Astor an "M. P.-ess."
 Benny Leonard lost tooth in his recent bout. We would dispose of our entire set, upper and lower, for Leonard's share of the purse.
 Speaking of moderation, a young woman who claims to have been tilted, merely asks $500,000 from the Rothschild heir. Mathilde has sailed for Europe. All those in favor of Mathilde staying abroad indefi- nitely will please say, Aye" The Ku Klux Klan recently made political gesture in Texas that is causing talk through out the country.
 The resignation of Elmer Dover will not leave what you could truthfully call an aching void.
 Two more years as hard as the first two may reconcile MT. Harding to one term.
 
 It would take a super-expert to tell who's winning the coal and railroad strikes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-30

necessary to call the members of the detach- ment from their armory. When the troops were ordered mobilized Tuesday night the action came as a distinct surprise to most peo- pie of this city. There had been nothing on the surface which appeared to make such action that the governor acted only after a meeting of large body of the best known business men in Birmingham, at which alarming reports were made as to certain action planned for Tuesday night.
 They laid the situation before the governor. The sheriff was consulted and he too was in- pressed by the nature of the reports which had been received. The mobilization was there fore ordered as a precautionary measure. Fortunately the services of the troops were not needed Since they reported for duty the situ- ation has been unusually quiet.
 In this connection word of congratulation is in order to the national guard for it's eff ciency and readiness. Adjutant General Moon came up from Montgomery Tuesday evening by airplane in less than an hour and within 30 minutes the guardsmen were assembling at their armories. It is good to know that Ala bama's military arm Is in such state of pre- paredness for emergencies, but it is also good to know that the strike has so far been kept so well in hand by the leaders and by the local authorities that the active intervention of the military has not been found necessary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-30
IN HOTELLOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
FINE CROP YEAR IN ALABAMA


 "Crop conditions in Alabama are perhaps as good as they have ever been reported for this season of the year." said N. E. Bell of the mortgage loan department of Jemison and company. 'I have just returned from extensive tour through the counties in the southern section of the state and the farmers everywhere are feeling optimistic over their prospects. In Crenshaw county, particularly, extra fine crops were noted.
 "One of the most encouraging things in connection with the crops this year is that the farmers are diversifying. They have planted more cotton than for several years, it is true, but they have not neglected food crops Corn is fine everywhere went. Upon inquiry found that one of the reasons for the good crops is found in the fact that the farmers got to their work earlier than usual this year They had their soil better pre- pared for seeding than is usually the case
 "our Mir. W. E. Wrenn is also back from tour of Hale, Greene and Sumter counties and he reports fine crops in that section of the state with good yield promised in prac- tically all crops planted. The coming fall should be hummer in business way in Alabama"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-30
A MORNING PRAYER
FROM SOUTHERN SIBERIA
 TO ALABAMA

When some Alabama farmers their way ing fields of hairy vetch they will be looking on the plains of southern Siberia whence the seed came.
 Birmingham seedsmen, recently receiving a consignment of hairy vetch seed from New York importer, found in one of the bags a short note from a southern Siberian farmer. Johan Braun raised the vetch, threshed out the seed in southern Siberia and sold them to London houses representative, who shipped them to England The New York importing house purchased the seed from the London house and, after making the long voyage from London to New York, they were shipped by railroad to Birmingham. The seed travelled 5000 miles at least to get to the Alabama farm where they will be planted and produce . crop.
 In return America will ship to southern Siberia the agricultural implements with which Johan Braun will till his soil and the cotton of which his clothes are made. That is how the world lives. One nation supplies another with what it requires in exchange for what 1t needs. Money is the medium of this ex- change, but the interchange of products is the basis of trade
 Some Alabama cross-ties are moving out of Mobile this week for street railroad to be built in Palestine close by Jerusalem. These cross-ties were hewn out of logs in Alabama forests We need the world and the world needs us. The more intimate our contact with the world the readier disposal there will be of our surplus production of all kinds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-30
SEEING AMERICA FIRST

"After passing through the wet country of Ontario we are now on our return trip from Battle Creek, Mich.," writes Emmett Perry, who, with two other Birmingham boys, Robert Messer and Consy Caldwell, is making a cross-country trip by automobile.
 "Here in Battle Creek we have just had the pleasure of visiting the Post Toastie fac tory, which is quite a revelation in breakfas. food making. We also visited great sani- tarium here. We are travelling in a five passenger touring and had very little trouble. The weather has been fine and we have seen number of sights, including Man. moth Cave, on our trip up. We expect to get back in about two weeks"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-30
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
 Love and potatoes both spring from the eyes. N
 Love is a game in which the result is often tie.
 Most men waste too much time on schemes that won't work.
 Charity covereth multitude of poor peo- pie with secondhand garments.
 Your faith is not measured by your appre- citation of the faults of others. Good intentions in sowing tares will never make them come up as wheat.
 Things that cost more than they are worth are those that we don't know what to do with. Remember that your neighbors watch you closely and that your neighbors are very par ticular
 A man may forget home, kindred, friends and almost everything else, but he never for gets the first time he went into barber shop to get shaved.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-30
LABOR BOARD WILL END RAILROAD STRIKE

{ The solution of the railroad shopmen's strike rests with the railroad labor board. If it's au- thority had been recognised from the start there would have been no strike. Both sides t, the, controversy have flouted it's rulings.
 President Harding's belated policy of stand ing behind the board and recognizing it as the onlH government agency for dealing with diff ferences between railroad employers and their workmen has brought about a change of sen- timent which will enable a settlement to be reached.
 What the industries of America need more than anything else, is the spirit of cooperation If employers and employees are willing to arbi- trate their differences and accept the rulings of such an agency as the railroad labor board as binding, there will be no strikes.
 The railroad strike will be ended by ac- knowledging tho railroad labor boards author ity. That will mean an improvement in the future relations of the railroads and their em- ployes. The board has made some mistakes and has lost prestige, but it is realized now that there can be no peace in railroad circles unless the board5s decisions are accepted.
 There will probably be revision of the wage scale and the question of seniority rights will have to be adjusted, but the point gained by President Harding is the recognition of thsV labor boards authority. There will never be industrial peace in America until the rulings made by boards of arbitration arc obeyed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-30
INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION IN ALABAMA NOT CURTAILED

Again Alabama has reason to congratulate itself. Transportation is seriously handicapped and there is difficulty in getting the products of mills, mines and factories to their destina- tion, but so far no factory wheels have been forced to cease turning. Production is going on at the 100 per cent pace that set in some time ago.
 Fifteen blast furnaces have been closed down in the east, owing to the rail and mine strikes In Alabama another furnace has been blown in and one is preparing to resume. The re- port of mining operations in the country for the week ending July shows the highest per centage of production to be in this state. One large industrial concern produced more coal in the week ending Juuly 8 than in any other week of it's history.
 The blast furnaces and steel mills will not them are self-supporting and all mine their own raw material. Hydroelectricity operates dozens of mills, rendering them immune from . shortage of coal cars.
 While there is difficulty in getting Birming- ham iron to some points by rail, 1t is going regularly and without interruption up the Ten nessee river to the middle west, and the War Eior is carrying steel mill products to the guls for export and the Pacific coast.
 It is troublesome and an embarrassment to business to have freight lying around on side tracks in tho country, but that is not nearly as bad as being forced to halt production.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-30
A PERSIAN LOVE SONG

By Thomas Bailey Aldrich- An! sad are they who know not love,
 But tar from passions tears and sp1es Drift down moonless sea, beyond
 The silvery coasts of fairy isles. And sadder they whose longing lips
 Kiss empty air, and never touch The dear warm mouth of those they love
 Waiting, wasting, suffering much. But clear as amber, fine as musk, Is life to those who, pilgrim-wise. Move hand in hand from dawn to dusk.
 Each morning nearer Paradise. Oh, not for them shall angels pray;
 They stand in everlasting light; They walk in Allah's smile by day,
 And nestle in his heart by night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-30
BRITISH VIEW OF NANCY

From the London Mall.
 We can look out for another 'big push on the part of the prohibitionists now that this M. P.-ess. has returned from America, for her trip to her native country was not uncon- 3nected with an inspection of the progress over there of the ''cause" which is so dear to her schoolmistress-like soul. She has pertinacity, a thick skin, utter lack of taste or scruples where her pet schemes are concerned, un- bounded faith in herself, and most important of all, pots of money to back her up. She can not unfortunately, be dismissed as harmless by any means. She is real source of danger to every Epgishman who loves liberty, and who Is unwilling to have his ways ordered by waspish women from the U. S. A.-with bees in their bonnets.s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-30
PRESIDENT COMING"

"The President of the United States is com ing to Birmingham tonight" said o. L. Bum, manager of the Chamber of Commerce, yes terday. .I have made that remark several times today and have been as often surprised that should be requested for further infor- nation.
 My daughter, Mrs O. R. Cline, of Cam den, N. J., is to arrive on the night train with my grandson for a months visit here. I know that this boy is to be President of the United States eday and why shouldn't I say so. I cannot understand the obtuseness of my friends