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The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-02-07

to Woodstock with her daughter,
Mrs. Donald Miller, who has
been visiting at her home here.
A number of people here at
tended the funeral Of Mrs. Moses
Roy at Barnet Center church Sat
urday afternoon.
Frank French spent Sunday Il
W. s. Brooks.
The dance at town hall Friday
evening was we'll attended The
music furnished by Mrs. Wilkic
and Guy Dunbar was especially
rood and very much enjoyed by
al present.
Katherine Conant of West Bar
net has been visiting her sister at
Benz. Gadley's.
Mr.. and Mrs. George |. Brown
spent Saturday in St. Johnsbury
Mrs. Lem Moody and Mrs.
Fred Goslant of West Barn =
have been visiting their parents,
Mr. and Mrs. George Woods.
The Christian Endeavor socie-
tv will give an entertainment at
Town Hall Friday evening. Two
farces will be given, one by the
girls "A Love of Bonnet The
other given by the boys "The
Hypochondear". Edith Hazelton
will sing in between the farces.
Laura Dow was home from
Lyndon Institute over Sunday.
The Odd Fellows are beginning
rehearsalS for a minstrel show 10
be given later.
Mrs. L. e. Spafford spent a few
days at the "Old Homestead" last
week. She has been spending
some time in Orleans, her former
home. Friday she went to Au-
burndale, Mass, to remain with
her daughter, Doris, until spring
when she will return and make
preparations for opening the "Old
Homestead" for the summer sea-
son.
Sumner Gilfllan who has been
spending a weeks vacation with
his mother has returned to Bos-
ton University.
Next Sunday will be given up
more or less to the children, kind
of a winter Children's dav. They
will furnish the music for the
morning services in place of the
regular choir. The sermon will he
of special interest to the children.
Mrs. James Allan has gone to
Boston to visit he son, Ebert Al
Ian and family, and daughter, FL
sic.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-02-07
President Moody On
VermOnt's Needs

To a symposium in the Yer
mont Missionary entitled "a
Greater Vermont" the following
Illuminating and forceful contri-
button was sent by President
Paul d. Moody of Middlebury
college:
New York city, so closely found
ed naturally has had no way to
-grow-save up. Hence the sky
scrappers. Vermont has only
one way to grow-that is in an
improvement in quality. 1t has
never wanted as a whole to be an
industrial state, to harness every
waterfall and line every river with
ugly factories or skirt every large
town with smoking chimneys.
And agriculturally there is a limit
to what the state can do. There
are considerably section where
farming can never be highly pro-
fitable.
But where increase in quality is
out of the question, there is always
the possibility of improvement in
quality. There are few things
which man makes which cannot
be improved upon. 1t is only
God whose work, in sky and
mountain and tree, cannot be bet
tered. As Joyce Kilmer said,
"Poems are made by fools like me
But only God can make a tree"
But roads can be made over
mountains and trees can be pre-
served. We are so proud of what
we admire in the state that We
are in danger Of being satisfied
with it. No matter how good our
roads are, they can be better, and
there can be more of them The
same is true of our schools 10
maintain the same standards year
after year is in reality to deterio-
rate. This is even truer of the
church. 1t can be improved in
quality. We who serve it can
work harder, study more diligently
make greater sacrifices for it.
And these things will go to make
a better manhood and womanhood.
not a state greater i#quantity of
its population, but greater in the
quality of its people and their
works.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-02-07
KING GEORGE REFERS TO
AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP

LONDON, Feb. THE Imperial
parliament which was prorogued
December 10 to await action on
the Irish treaty by the Dali Fire
ann, was reopened today with the
reading Of the speech from the
throne by King George. Regard
inc the Irish question the King
said parliament would be called
upon to "consider such measures
as may be necessary to give effect
to the agreement" He also
touched upon the negotiations for
a pact with France to guarantee
action in the event of "an unpro-
voked attack by Germany, and
paid high tribute TO the accom-
plishments of the Washington con-
ference. In referring to the 4
power treaty the king said:
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-02-07
ST. JOHNSBURY
Local News

The Rectors Aid society of St
Andrews church will meet Thurs
day afternoon with Mrs. c. 4.
Severance.
Kenneth Lanpher of Middlebury
college has been spending a few
days with his grandparents, MI.
and Mrs. A. W. Babcock.
Max Moulton has taken a posi-
ton in Randall and Whitcomb's
store.
Mr. and Mrs. F. c. Sherburne
went to Lyndonville Tuesday to
spend the day with his sister, Mrs.
O. ]. Leonard, and jointly cele-
brate the birthdays of Mr.. Sher-
burne and Mrs. Leonard.
w. A. Wright had a get-together
meeting with the employees of the
Corner garage Monday night. An
excellent dinner was served the II
who gathered there followed by a
conference upon the various pro-
blems of the garage. Before adj
journment Ralph Dodge was
chosen to take trip to Montreal
in the interests of the garage
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-02-07
Albert E. Currier
Postmaster at DanVille

Albert Z. Currier has been APP
pointed postmaster at Danville IA
place of c. S. Dole, whose commit
sion expired on Jan Is, 1921.
The Senate has confirmed the
appointments of Lester c..
Rhoades at Chester, Ida Holston
at Newbury and Robert c. Olds
of Norwich
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-02-07
RiChfOrd Merchant
In Bankruptcy

A voluntary petition in bank
ruptcy has been filed the United
States court by Harold A. Warner,
a merchant of Richford. He gives
his liabilities as s3,508.97 of which
S856.74 are covered by secured
claims. His assets are placed at
S2,70i37.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-02-07
BACK TALK

If, as if said, American farmers
are making 50 per cent less cider
than formerly, the Brattleboro Re
former is consoled by the thought
that life on the farm is onlv half
as hard as it used to be.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-02-07
SOLDIER BONUS BILL
TO COST $1,900,000,00C

w htOII INV 7 V4N' VU' = IT.
soldiers bonus would cost the
federal government approximately
$1,000, 100000 on the basis of es~
Inmates prepared for the House
Ways and Means committee by
fiscal officers of the army, navy
and marine corpS.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-02-07

The auto bandit is the modern
type Of the old-fashioned horse
thief and the Springfield Repoltoy
recommends a little of the oil,
fashioned rope treatment to teach
him the error of his ways.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-02-07

Referee, Mr.. Tuckerman. Sc0r-
crs, Sampson and Pike. Timer,
McGill.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-02-07
TUESDAY, FEB. 7, 1922
SUNNY SOUIBLETS

The powers are all willing TO
give up gas warfare until they
get in a tight spot
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-02-07
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to express our sincere
thanks to the friends and neigh
bors for the wonderful flowers
also the assistance which they o
kindly gave during our recent be-
reavement.
Mrs. George Spaulding,
Mrs. Eta Russell.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. F. Lawrence
and family,
Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Lawrence
and family,
Mr.. and Mrs. c l. McCrillis
and family,
Milo Gibson.
St. yohnsbury. Feb. Z. 1922.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-02-07

As members of the Associated
Press that organization is entltled
exclusively to the use for repub-
Ecation, of all news dispatches
credited to it or not otherwise
credited in this paper and all the
local news published herein. ~
rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also res rv-
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-02-07

: FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVE
The Julius Mathews Special
Agency Offices: Boston, l Bea-
con Street.
Detroit, 242 Lafayette Boule-
ward West.
New York, III Madison Avenue.
Chicago, 1411 Hartford Build
ing.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-02-07

Entered as second-class matter
May 1, 1916, at the post office at
-,H. Johnsbury Vermont, under the
cat of March 9, 1879.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-02-07

The CaledonlanRecord assumes
no financial responsibility for ty-
biographical errcrs in advertise
ments but will reprint that part Of
an advertisement in which the ty-
biographical error occurs. Adver-
tisers will please notify the mar
agement Immediately of any err
rors which may occur.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-10-14

the statement of Mr.. Lee as made in
entire good faith and as representing
a SINCERE and considered decision.
Such pistol exists none the less
in the hand of labor in every essen
tial industry. There are, other indus
tries not less vital than the railroads
to the life and safety of the public
the coal industry, for example. At
tention has been conferred upon the
general strike, but ,the same danger
turks in any industry that furnishes
the necessaries of life That coal
shall be mined whatever the private
disputes between operators and min
ers is of quite as much importance to
the railroad men of the country and
their families as to any other citizens.
There is the essential point. Fac
ing this demand for the necessaries
of life there are neither union men
nor non union men nor capitalists.
There are only Americans, and unless
the American government can recure
those nccessaries for the people of
America it has fallen a long way
from its former greatness. Mr.. Lee
has enunciatod broad principle
which must be enacted into the law
OF the land. 1t is to the interest of
the members of the brotherhoods,
quite as much as to the interest of
everyone else, that it shall be so en-
acted.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-10-14
Editorial Comment
Abandoning the Pistol
On. Y. Tribune.)

The leaders of the Big -Four rail-
road brothcrhoods are unquestionably
the ablcst labor leaders in America,
just as the members of those unions
rank among tho most intelligent
workers Of the country. it is all the
more dcplorable that these men
should cease to be q source Of fair
play and good sense and should take
the radical and threatening stand
that they have taken from the hour Of
the AdamSon act down to the recent
shopmen's strike.
1t is all the more gratifying that
these leaders now frankly recognize
that they have been travelling a mis-
taken road and publicly rcnounce all
resort to the tactics of a general
strike IN the future. as Mr.. lee well
said, the situation was loaded with
dynamite. for the country as well as
for ourselves and the executives"
And he added these memorable
words. addressed tar more to the rad
ical advisers of labor, l. w. W. and
intellectuals alike, than to the rank
and file of the unions: mo sane gov
eminent would permit any faction or
class to naralyze the transportation
business of the country and thereby
punish the innocent, who are always
in the majority"
No one has better stated the case
against the general strike or more
clearly expressed the reasons why it
cannot be tolerated. The whole
country should be grateful to Mr.. Lee
for his frank and forceful words. He
speaks as a loyal American citizen
and every American can feel proud
that this important branch of Ameri-
can labor has thus apparently turned
its back upon Bolshevism and all its
works. Labor can always gain far
more by appealing to the logic and
sympathies Of the American people,
and what it gains comes to it un-
grudgingly.
But The Tribune cannot see that
this decision of the Big Four in the
least obviates the need of legislation
against the strike in essential indus
tries. The pistol that was held at the
head of the government in war time
and forced the Adamson act from
frightened Administration has been
lowered and unloaded. So far as its
use by the brotherhoodsf under their
present leadership is concerned. the
danger can be dismissed from con-
sideration. We are glad to ACCEPT
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-10-14
Editors Letter Box
Other Firebugs
Than the Hunters

A reader of the Journal requests
publication of the following commun-
iCation to the Bangor News. 1t con-
tains information worthy of censid-
Grafton, although it affords no good
argument against close time on hunt
ing, when conditions arc such as they
on the ban:
Editor Of The News:
We have seen accounts in your
paper Of late dates of fires set by
hunters up here in the woods.
Open season on game commences
in this state on October /. This year
the first of October came on Sunday,
and that is closed time.
Just as soon as possible after the
law was off there was a big holler
put up about the fires set by hunters.
Not a word was said about the fires
that were set by the employees of the
l,mbcrmcn. There were several of
them, but they did not count. The
howl was all saved up for the beneN
OF the men who came up here for
little vacation. and to try and get
some deer. Nothing much was said
about the fire on Lobster lake that
was set by a man at work for the
same lumber firms. In August, this
was. Neither was there anything
said about the fire at Shallow lake,
also in August, nor about the one on
Tom Fletcher's nor. in fact, any of
the others. But everything is laid
to the hunters.
About every fire in the woods was
burning when the open season for
game began.
In July, l came from Chesuncook
dam to Lily Bay on the auto truck
and there were six mon on it with
me. They smoked cigarettes all the
way and threw the ends out on the
side of the road. 1t was one of the
hottest and driest times we had.
IL the foreign cigarette smokers
tEat work for the lumbermen are
watched little closer there will be
fewer fires to lay to hunters.
1T will ray to give the sportsman
living chance. Also. don't kill the
blrd that lays the golden egg.
CLARENCE MORRIS.
lockwood, Nc, Oct. s.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-10-14

Mrs. l.. ID. Chase is the guest OF
her sister. Mrs. Wesley Blair, in New
ton. Mass.
Mrs. Leon Bagley is improving and
is able to sit up.
Mrs. Bulah Knight entertained the
arts and crafts club Wednesday at
ternoon.
Mrs. A. +. Walker, who has been
passing the summer at the Adams
cottage at Windmere park. left
Thursday for her home in Savannah,
Ga.
+. p. Hunt was a business visitor
in Belfast Wednesday.
Mrs. T.. j. Bagley has returned
from Massachusetts, where she has
been the guest of relatives for TIE
past two weeks.
Mrs. Jessie Knowlton, of Pittsfield.
was in town Thursday.
G. Il. Jones, who has been quite
i'll with scarlet fever, is improving.
The Rev. J. II. Ainslie, Mrs. Aims
lie and little son, Douglass. of Carr
bridge. Mass. were guests the past
week of DR.. and Mrs. C. w. Whit
ney.
J. III. Farwell has bought the stock
of goods of c. ID. Conner and has
taken possession of the store.
c. d. Conner is in the real estate
business and has opened an Office
over the post office.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-10-14
PIN LABEL WHILE PINNING is
GOOD

Last week the Government flcd q
suit against the Dayton Wright Air
plane Company for nearly two and a
half million dollars alleged to have
fraudulcntly been paid to tho COM
pany. For accounting it is alleged
that over 100000 was wrongly paid
that the company was fraudulently
paid nearly sS50,000 as a bonus: that
nearly s13S,0O0 was wrongfully paid
for transportation; over $4,000 for
coal; also another payment of $40
900: that special depreciation of
$685., 900 was allowed when there had
been no depreciation; that property
worth s66S,0O0 was sold to the COM
pany by certain Officials for 65 mil
lions, and so on, a pretty tale told in
part.
The Airplane Company issues a
statement to the effect that the con-
tracts were formulated by the Gov
crnmcnt, that tho work was super
viscd, payments voluntarily madNSby
the Government and no complaints
were made and that seventy per cent
OF it's profits were paid to the Gov
crnmcnt in excess profits and income
taxes.
1t is to be hoped that the complete
story will eventually be told, be read
and pondered by people and that ade-
Quate restitution will be secured and
the guilty parties, if they be guilty,
will be labelled.
Americans are very tolerent peo-
pie as a rule. They are, or think
they arc, too busy to bother with
bygones. They prefer to call for a
new deal and throw the old pack
aside. Crooks, high and low, and
the defenders Of crooks, are well
aware of this characteristic weakness
and play it for all it is worth and it
is the strongest encouragement held
out to criminals and shystcrs
1t will not make for better coun-
try to have the second or third gen.
GRAFTON of those who swindlcd the
Government when decent folks were
fighting or toiling, buying Liberty
bonds and giving Of time and effort
and not infrequently of health, tell
ing the world how grandfather sacri-
feed for his country. II the genera
tons happen to be thrifty they will
have left Of the uncarncd increment
OF their crooked ancestors enough to
found an order of Pleasurable
Patriots Who Won the War-or as
much of it as they could get into
their safety deposit boxes Such an
outcome should be avoided, and it
only may be by showing up the rec
ord before it is too late.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-10-14
You Cannot
Niae Your Fat

overfatness is the one misfortune YOU
cannot hide from yourself or from those
around you II too thin, your dressmaker
or tailor can supply the deficiencies. but
he overfat carry a burden they can not
conceal. There is one sure way to reduce
your weight surely and quickly. The
harmless Marmoia Prescription. which
changes the fatty tissues and fat-produc
ing foods to solid flesh and energy. helps
the general health and digestion, permits
you to eat substantial food, and leaves the
skin clear and smooth. This famous pre-
scription Is now condensed into tablet
form. Each tablet contains an exact dose
OF the same harmless ingredients that
made the original prescription capable of
reducing the overfat body steadily and
easily without the slightest i'll effects.
Take but one tablet after each meal and
Mt bedtime until the normal weight Is
reached and the bodily health completely
restored. Ask your druggist for Marmola
Prescription Tablets or send one dollar to
the Marmola Company, 46lo WoodwaSE
Ave, Detroit. Mich. the price the world
over. and you will receive enough to start
you well on the road to slimness and
happiness-Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-10-14
UNCLE SANS CREDIT HIGH

The volume OF subscriptions to the
half billion bond issue at AZ per cent
Is assurance that our government
would have had no trouble in floating
bonds TO more than double that
amount.
Never has the credit OF this govern
ment stood higher. This would hard
~ have been the condition had there
not been n display of backbone and
retrenchment at Washington. Pres
ident Harding's insistence on the
budget. his veto OF the bonus bill, an
able secretary of the treasury hewing
To the line and letting the chips fall
where they might. have contributed
very materially. 1t would not be just
20 overlook these facts.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-10-14
RESULTS OF IGNORING HUMAN
NATURE

| About the only characteristic of the
radical which approaches the sublime
is his conccit. Otherwise he coad
not regard himself as the exponent
OF wisdom in stupid world and at
the same time suppose that if his
plans were put into effect this same
stupid world would be bright enough
and good enough to carry them
! through. He leaves human nature
out OF his reckoning, which is not so
strange considering that he is so en-
crossed in himself.
One needn't search for instances to
illustrate this, they are on every side.
OF them all, however, perhaps none
are more conspicuous than the
changed attitude toward landed prop
erty in Russia, a change forced upon
the soviet authorities if they would
protect the country from starvation.
After declaring the land to be in
common and proclaiming it to be the
duty of the peasant to till the soil,
keeping only SO much as his i'm
mediate needs required out of the
proceeds, the balance to be dis
tributod among tho industrial work
crs-and office holders-in the cities,
it was found that the peasant, the
stupid fellow, would not till the soil
on any such terms.
OF course this was attributed to the
peasants stupidity, his inability to
comprehend the blessing of commun-
ism. Nevertheless this condition of
the peasant mind was very mpor-
tant feature of the undertaking which
a practical person would have fore
seen at the beginning and made plans
accordingly. Now the impractical
leaders arc compelled to revise their
plans after being nearly starved out
themselves and after seeing millions
of their countrymcn perish from lack
of the food which under any rational
plan might have been produced.
Investigation by our Department of
Commerce shows that Lenins decree
of last April was Virtually the adop-
ton of the plan proposed by Stolypn
several years before the bolshevilii
| obtained control of the government.
Under this any peasant is enabled to
! have the land in his possession cor
rcctly surveyed and registered with
deeds of transfer to him. And should
the peasant emiSratc he could lease
If. The law is distinct recognition
of the indivdualstic tendencies of
the mass of Russian peasants and is
directly opposed to the principles of
communism. The leaders may have
mental reservations about eventually
evading the law and getting posses
sion of the land back into the hands
of the government; they long since
showed themselves capable of such
trickery. But for the present they
: have been compelled to bow to hui
man nature as they Lave found it,
and there is !, thing to show that so
. far they have in any degree changed
human nature by their regime.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-10-14

recommending the Vegetable Com
pound to my friends. - Mrs. A. H.
GARLAND. 2l8 E. Brown ST., Iron
Mountain, Michigan.
Xenia, Ohio. Every month | had
such pains in my back and lower part
of my abdomen that could GOT lie
quietly in bed. | suffered for about
five years that way and was not reg
ular either. 1 read an advertisement
of what Lydia E. PinAham's Vegeta-
bic Compound had done for other
women, so decided to tryit. ltsurely
has helped me lot. as have 40
pains now and am irregular and feeling
fine" - Mrs MARY DALE, Route I.
Xenia, Ohio.
If you suffer as did Mrs Garland or
Mrs, Dale, you should give this weIl-
known medicine thorough trial.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-10-14
W. H. Eaves Agency,
10 Congress st., Boston
tues,

ployed resurfacing the state roads
in town. George Emery. road com
missioner at st. Adams, is in charge
of the work.
JamcS Staples. of Boston. is pass
ing his vacation with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Frank L. Staples.
Miss jeanne Corson will not cor
tinue her course at Thomas business
college, Watcrville. this fall
Mrs. Addie Gee IS visiting her
brother, +. S. Burrill, in North Hart
land.
Mrs. Grace Flint is taking a few
days vacation from her duties at the
post office.
Mrs. S. L. Damon is much i'm
proved from her recent illness.
Percy J. Lancaster. of Canaan. was
in town Wednesday.
II. c. Martin was in Pittsfeld
Thursday onSbusiness.
Mrs. Eva Emery has moved into
the n. NJ. Woodbury. rent in West
Hartland.
Irving Emery has employment at
Charlie Goodwin's.
Nernard Steadman is driving new
motorcycle with side car attach
ment
Fred w. Palmer and wife. Elmer
Libby and family, also Fremont San
born and Mrs. Kicrstead are soon
to start by auto for Florida, where
they plan to pass the coming winter.