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bringing flood of registrants and
the committee is loath to stem the
tide. Five hundred and seventy
five have already registered and
this number can be taken care of
if the mothers of st. Johnsbury,
realizing the interest and value of
the conference to all girls, will
make an added effort and stretch
their welcome to take in an extra
guest. If lodging only can be
given in some homes perhaps
other homes can take care of the
feeding proposition.
Cots will be set up in the Wom-
ans club house to help take care
of the overflow and the coopera-
ton of every person in st. Johns
bury is urged to assist in making
the fourth annual conference of
the Older Girls of Vermont, the
banner one. Help to put St.
Johnsbury on the map "a the ban
ner convention town, help to give
the girls of Vermont a hearty well
come, help to show the girls the
way along "the friendly road"
These st. Johnsbury girls have
been selected from the protest
ant churches and from the Girls
Community League as delegates to
the conference, Vera Doyle, Dor
othv Roy, Azelia Carter, Blanche
Taylor, Ruth Moffett, Helen
Brough, Anna Harvey, Christine
Braley, Edith Holbrook, Edith
Vernon, Irene Aldrich, Margaret
Want, Dorothy Baxter, Grace
Clark, Elizabeth Foshey, Nettie
Witty, Anna Donaghy and Minetta
Temple of East st. Johnsbury and
Ethel Simpson and Bessie Wallace
of St. Johnsbury Center.
The purpose of the conference
is to unite girls of the state in a
spirit of loyalty to Christian
ideals, and the general theme of
the entire meeting is making the
near ideal. The officers of the
conference are: Miss Ethel Wood
ruff of Montpelier chairman;
Miss Celia Graves of Manchester
secretary; Mrs. Jonas II. Brooks
and Miss Caroline d. Ely of St.
Johnsbury, hostesses.
Miss Elizabeth Leavens OF
Montpelier, recreation leader.
Miss Katherine Warner of St
Johnsbury, leader of singing.
PROGRAM
! Friday, May 18th
/ 1.00-6.00 P. VI. Registration at
the Baptist church, Railroad St.
$50 P. NJ. Supper given by the
ladies of st. Johnsbury, South
(ConiEued Oh page -
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The principal clause

The principal clause of the
agreement is that the Germans
will undertake to furnish the
Red army with arms and mat
erial necessary to equip 180 regi-
ments of infantry, and sufficient
heavy field artillery for 20 infan-
try divisions.
The German General staff also
agrees to undertake to re-organize
the Baltic and Black sea fleet, to
supply the Russians with 500 new
airplanes and $50 field wireless
outfits.
The Germans will train 60
Russian instructors in the very
latest methods of chemical war
fare and send technical experts
to Russia to speed up the existing
munltlon plants and open new
factories. The Russians, on their
part agree to maintain Is infan-
try and eight cavalry divisions on
western Russia'5 frontier.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-05-11
SENATOR PAGE
GIVES FAMOUS
DINNER PARTY
Has Six OctOgenarians
and Vice President as
Guests

WASHINGTON, May 11-Six
national legislators whose combin-
ed ages cover a span of 484 years,
or an average of so 2-3 years per
man gathered about the table as
the guests of Senator Carroll S.
Page, of Vermont. at special
luncheon given Monday by the
nestor of the senate, in honor Of
day.
The guests and the dates of
their birth were:
Congressman Joseph Gurney
Cannon, of Illinois, May 7, 1886.
Congressman Charles Manly
Stedman of North Carolina, Jan
uary 20, 1871
Congressman William Stedman
Greene of Massachusetts, April
%, 1841.
Senator Knute Nelson of Min
nesota, February 3, 1843.
Senator William Paul Dilling-
ham of Vermont, December u,
1843.
ne most, Senator age, was
born January 10, 1843.
In addition to the octogenarianS
or near-octogenaiians, compara-
tive "boy" completed the assemb-
lage. He was Vice President Coo
lidge, born in Plymouth, Vt, July
n, 1872.
Senator Pages luncheon for his
his venerable colleagues in Con
gress is an established institution
which will have to go into the
discard after March next, when
the Vermont solon retires from Of
fee.
Last year, when the host was ILL.,
it was omitted, but for a number
of years previous "Uncle Joe's'
birthday had ben similarly cele-
brated upon the invitation of the
Nermonter.
The luncheon was given in the
spacious chambers of the senate
committee on naval affairs, OF
which Senator Page is chairman
and the rooms were appropriately
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Newport Girl Dies
After Weeks Illness

Miss Isabelle Page Bartlett oied
Wednesday night after weeks i'll
ness of pleuisv. Funeral services
are to be held at 5 this afternoon
at the home Of H. W. Perry with
Rev. A. p. Banks of St. Mark )
church officiating. The remains
VIII be taken to Melrose, Mass,
for interment.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-05-11
DEMPSEY BELIEVES
CARPENTER WILL WIN

LONDON, May II-GeOTge
Carpenter will enter the ring to-
night a heavy favoIite to win over
Ted Lewis in their 20 round match
for the worlds light heavyweight
championship. Jack Dempsey has
arrived here from Paris to witness
the battle and in confident that
Carpenter will have a walkaway.
1t is generally believed that Lewis
will step through the rope against
heavy handicap. Carpenters
weight was an0ounced at 175 lbs,
and Lewis at 157. II.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-05-11
DELAYS
VIEWS ON BONUS

WASHINGTON May IL
Transmission by President Hard
ing of his views on pending sol
dier bonus legislation to ReUbli-
can members of the senate finance
committee will await his return
from a week end trip to New Jer-
sey, it was announced by Senator
Watson of Indiana, one of the Re
publican committee members after
a conference today.
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BAD FIRE BURNS HOTEL
AT WEST ITLTDIJ MAS

WEST UPTON, Mass, May IL
A former hotel known IS the
Windsor House, two tenement
houses and a large garage were
burned early today at an estimat-
ed loss of 100000. The fire start
ed in Il garage and for a time
threatened to sweep through The
village, but fire apparatus from
Concord Junction and Maynard
helped in fighting the flames.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-05-11
Newport Man Taken
Sick on Train Dies

NASHUA, n. H.. May 11Albert
Roberts, aged about 80, of New
port, VI. who was taken from the
train here Sunday sick, died today
in St. Joseph's Hospital. He was
on his way from Newport, VT,
with a ticket for Pawtucket.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-05-11
COOPER SELECTED TO
FILL VACANCY

WASHINGTON, May 11-Se-
lection of Robert A. Cooper OF
so. Carolina to fiji the vacancy
on the federal farm loan board
caused by the recent resignation
of Asbury f. Lever, is undersJooo
to have been made by Pres. Hard
ing.
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ADVANCED
ONE CENT A GALLON

NEW YORK, MAY 1.-THE
Standard Oil company advanced
the price Of gasoline one cent a
gallon today in all its territory.
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30 7 10 18 7 8

Sacrifice hits, Burrows Mann.
Stolen bases, Jenks3, Burrows,
Cle2ry, Mann, Ellis. Leonard 2,
Harvey, Moore 8, Blod9ett, Dar-
ling, Pike 8. Struck out, by Bar
Der 3, by Paul l, by Pike1. Bases
on balls, by Barber /, by Pike 2.
Wild pitches, Ellis, Barber, UNI
pre-, Mclaughlin.
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More Homes Needed To
Care for SIS Girls Reg
istered for Conference

Unless nearly hundred girls going to be dsap-
pointed homes must be found in St JOhnsbuy for the
delegates the Older Girls conference which opens
Homes have been provided for 800 but every mail is
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-05-11
PRESIDENT SIGNS 3 PER
CENT IMMIGRATION BILL

" AS HINGIUN, May II-Tfes-
ident Harding today si@ned the bill
extending for , years from June
30, the 3 per cent immigration re-
StlIction.
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Germans To Furnish Reds
4 Arms For 180 Regiments
Prussians Plan Reorganization of
Baltic and Black Fleet and To
Supply 500 Airplanes
(By the Associated Press)

PARIS, May 1.-THE newspaper 4 Clair today printed
the text of military agreement said to have been signed
by representatives of the Russian soviet army and the Ger
General Staff in Berlin.
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Declare Death of Hon. Allen W. Fletcher
In Hotel Due To Cerebral Hernorrhage
Ex-Governor One Of Richest Ver-
mont Citizens--Had Large Holdings
of Real Estate
(BV the Associated Pressl

RUTLAND, May 11-fon Allen NJ Fletcher of Caven-
dish, former Governor Of Vermont found dead in his
room at the Berwick this morning Death was declared to
be due to cerebral hemohage He was one of the richest
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A Newspaper Covering
the Entire Northeast Sec
ton of Vermont State
Every Working Day.
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The Weather

Fair tonight and Friday.
Fresh northwest winds.
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Nothing Worse

MIR. LA TOILETTE rushes from one entertain
III ment to another. He is the vaudevillian of the
senate. he had scarcely cooled down the engine
after his attack upon the oil industry than he fires
up all over again because of a reported merger in
the steel industry which he claims will put the
public at the mercy of the steel trust
1t is indeed a cold day when politicians of the
LaFolIette type cannot find an industry which is
threatening" the future of the government and all
the people.
And yet if this nation depended upon La Toilette
ct al to furnish employment for the people we would
all starve to death for lack of work.
If all big business was as crooked as Mr.. La
Toilette makes out or if he had ever been able to
substantiate any of his charges, our penitentiaries
would not hold the criminals.
Fortunately for the nation these wild charges
arc mostly based on big noise and little fact. After
being fooled on numerous occasions the people
are not so easily misled by these political "smoke
signals which are intended TO indicate a consum-
ing fire which does not exist.
There has nothing happened to us or could hap
pen to us worse than what has already happened in
La Toilette and La FoDetteism.
, 1922-06-05

first" insisted Ned. And so Tel
placed tho arrow as shown at d and
with both hands n all his strength
he pulled back and back. Because IN,
lower end Of the rope was at the bass
OF the sapling 1t acted as an anchor
and the top benz back and back in a
perfect arc. When Ted had puIl.s
it back with all his strength he rcieas
edit.
"Oo-o-o-o-hi' exclaimed both bow,
as they watched that arrow scoot ur
and up and slowly form a great half
circle through the air.
And how the boys gasped when they
saw how far It was going. They had
no idea II would go so far. They raJ
after IT and where It was found i'm
bedded a foot in the soft soil they
marked the place. Then Ned tried il
and. being slightly heavier and also
more used to bows than his city cou.
sin, he sent the arrow fully 20 fee,
further.
IT'S great sportI' they declared a,
first n and then the other made 5
new record.
And fine exercise for the shoulder,
back and arm muscles" declared Ted
And a brand new game. which is
best Of all" said Ned Cwednesday-
Camp Fires.'1
Tomorrow-Merry Markings.
Copyright, 1922, by George Matthew
Adams.
, 1922-06-05
The Labor Situation

VHE COAL STRIKE is the outstanding fact in
the labor situation, and il must be considered
remarkable that it has had so little influence upon
general business, being to all appearances ignored.
Although the buying of iron and steel may have
been in a degree stimulated, its effect elsewhere has
been negligible The non-union coal districts are
not operating TO capacity, and a large amount of
coal stands constantly in unconsigned cars await
ing buyers. Reports from some localities say that
coal has sold at lower prices within the past week
than a month ago. The indisposition of consum-
ers to stock up bespeaks n general belief that the
strike will be settled at least without any increase
OF prices, and that there will be no trouble about
getting coal.
There is so great a surplus OF capacity in the
oituminous industry that a basis for this conf.
denee exists, but the situation is more serious in
the anthracite field, where there has been practi-
cally no surplus labor and little idle time for the
miners. The strike has lasted two months, and no
progress toward a settlement appears TO have been
made. With so much working time lost there is
reason for apprehension that there may be a short.
age OF anthracite next winter. The miners in the
anthracite field are fully aware that they hold n
strong position, as none but skilled miners may
dig anthracite coal, and they arc disposed TO make
the most of it.
, 1922-06-05
Whose Fault and When
UWHEN DID DEPRESSION begin, t

"WHEN DID DEPRESSION begin, to what ex.
w tent did it go, and where did the blame really
lie?" This is the sext from which Representative
Ketcham, of Michigan, delivers a brief sermon to
the Democrats of the house and all others who care
to read truth as shown by the record.
The fact is that the Democratic party did not 90
out of power in 1920 although they were unmerci-
fully beaten in that year. The exact time that
they surrendered control was March 4, 1921. Among
other things said by Mr.. Ketcham, commenting
upon a chart which he presented showing the de
clines in the prices of staple commodities was the
following:
Corn was quoted at S1.9S in May 1920. 1t reached
81 cents in March 1921, and dropped to the lowest
point in the whole twenty,month period in October
1921, when it reached 46 cents. Ninety per cent of
the depression in corn occurred before the expira-
ton of the term of President Wilson, while about
o per cent took place after the Republicans as
sumed power. a slight increase had taken place in
the price of corn before January 1922.
I'm May 1920, the price on middling New Or.
leans cotton was 40 cents; it reached its low point
in March 1921 when the quotation was II cents. In
j January 1922, this price had advanced to 1872 cents.
In terms of percentage, therefore, 100 per cent
of the d~eflation in cotton occurred during the
Democratic administration while an Is per cent
increase has occurred during the Republican ad.
ministration."
By similar comparisons Mr.. Ketcham demon
, 1922-06-05

stratcs that there was a es per cent decrease in the
market value of cattle up TO the end Of the Demo.
cratic administration and a % per cent increase
after the Republicans came into power. There was
ton and a Q per cent increase since the Republi-
cans came into power. Taking the prices of sixteen
was an average decrease of s4lz per cent in the
market prices during the closing months of the
Democratic administration, and an average of only
After presenting these figures Mr.. Ketcham
quotes from the reports of the federal reserve
board showing that its deflation program was
started in the early part OF 1920 when the board
, 1922-06-05
High Purposes

"Tn announcing through the col
umns of the Kansas City Morning
Journal the acquisition of the Kansas
City Evening and Sunday Post. Wal,
ter s. Dickey. editor and owner OF
the two publications. sets out some
principles which are refreshing" notes
the St Louis Times.
His declaration is more persuasive
than the usual salutatory. in that for
over a year he has practiced in the
Journal the policy he outlines for his
two papers.
He says among other things:
The efforts of these newspapers will
he directed toward printing the facts,
in order hat the people may reach
and act upon their individual conclu.
sions.
I make this solemn pledge-the
same broad tolerance toward all. re
CARELESS of race. religion. political
persuasion or personal beliefs; the
same faith in and ambition for our
common city. state and country, which
have characterized The journal for
moro Than half a century. will be the
dominant principles OF The Kansas
City Post under my direction.
Newspaper abuse of power is as bad
as any other form of tyranny.
Freedom of the press is guaranteed
by our Constitution, but freedom OF
the press does not mean newspaper
license.
1t does not mean license to distort
news facts.
1t does not mean license to print
misleading headlines.
1t does not mean license to blacklist
citizens.
It does not mean license to assassin.
ate character.
It does not mean license to grab po-
Iitical power.
1t does not mean license to manipu.
late public projects for private profit.
It does not mean license t browbeat
advertisers.
No newspaper under my control will
ever attempt to make or break organ
izations, to ruin socially. politically
or In a business way any individual
for personal
Tho Journal and The Post, from
time to time. will advocate the things
believed best to advance the public
welfare. But in the final analysis,
the newspapers judgment is not in.
faIlibie. and we shall o sulk nor vent
our spleen II a majority does not
agree with us.
Any city should be proud OF news.
papers run with such high purposes
and Kansas City is peculiarly in need
of just such journals. The leading
, 1922-06-05
To Think About

LIVERY STATE in the west faces the necessity
IL for tax reduction. Probably no private business
could exist, if operated on the basis of state man.
asement in the past. In other words expenses of
state government have been estimated and estab-
1ishcd by state employees.
The people who represent the employer, the state,
have had little or nothing to say about taxes or
expenditures.
They have been told what to do and how to vote
and have done as dictated.
How many private businesses could leave the de
cision as TO overhead cost in the hands of EN-.
pioyes without any restraining influence by the
employer?
How many private businesses could pay the over
head that would be thus developed? Probably none.
Yet this is the position in which every state finds
itself today. The tax beneficiaries have built up
the overhead which the taxpayers must meet.
Relief will come eventually only when a disin-
, 1922-06-05
4 Lesson in Experience

NORTH DAKoTA, which was less than $JOOO,OOO
N in DEBT ct the time Townley went there TO mess
things up. now finds herself more than SI,0Oe,OOo
in debt as the result of her experience in Non
partisan theories. In addition to this, taxes have
been increased more than three-fold.
Despite this example, and despite the fact that
farmers of North Dakota last fall cast out the ad
miuistratlon that had done this thing, the same
movement is endcayoring to fastcn itself on several
other western states. No state, no community can
afford 10 go to sleep and let such damnable move
ments make the slightest Roadway. 1t will not sur
yiye the calcium light of publicity, and ~ has re
ceiyed a liberal dose of this sort of treatment In
wyoming. No other thing has done as much toward
cleaning Non-partisdn pioneers out OF the state
Let the official organs of the movement howl and
appeal to the governor to their hearts content
wyoming communities have the right to judge the
membership that applies for admission and Cas-
per will continue to vag the Non-partisan disturb
ers and the l. W. W. radicals as fast as they ap-
pear and are discovered.
The fundamental institutions Of the country
business and political life will be fully maintained
here.
There is one danger in all such movements as
Non-partisanism and that is that it finds support
in one phase or another by influential people, who
are not themselves, generally speaking, radical in
their view points.
There is ample safe and sane sentiment, inner
ent in the American people 10 crush all these un
sound movements if it is exerted. The time TO dc
it is all the time. There is always open season or
governmental and economical damfoolishness.
, 1922-06-05

Ned and Ted were practicing with
bows and arrows and wondering how
far the Indians could really shoot
with those weapons.
''Of course they could shoot weIl."
said Ted They practiced from tho
time they were big enough to walk, al
most"
IN bet a great big eiC ht-foot giant
like the man we saw in h circus
could shoot an awful long ways. Just
think. he could use a bow nine feet
long because a good many Indians
used bows a DOT taller than they
were Ned declared
Ted was thinking n looking o
him at tho same time as II trying to
help out his thoughts
Don't you think soT' asked Ned.
because Ted had not answered him
Ted continued to look about him.
Are you asleep.' demanded Ned.
tn. -ninE 20 look at him Ted had leap
| &c and gone to a little straight sap
ling. He was examining 1t eagerly as
Ned went up to him
mo. I'm not asleep. Yes. I think
90" said Ted. answering both ques-
Tons AT once anu NhtAt h0
why we can't shoot a giants bow and
arrowr he added. eagerly. .
Now / know YOU dreaming.
laughed Ned Were not old enough
| or strong enough"
But II VIC didn't have to hold the
bow and could use both hands to pull
with-think OF itr' exclaimed Ted
YES. II we could hire a giant to
help us" =.
mo. siri I'm sure we can do 1t all
by ourselves" insisted Ted and he ran
to camp and secured a small rope
which was once n part Of a clothesiinc.
| He also took an axe After selecting
| a tall. straight ash sapling he trimmed
| off the lower branches. up as high as
| he could reach. He also piled up box
es to reach higher branches. Then he
| tied the strong eight-strand linen
| clothes line firmly around the sap
ling about ten feet up from the ground
and tied the lower end close to the
ground as shown al B and c. The
sapfng is A
"Greatr' shouted Ned as Ted began
to test this by pulling on It. Where
did you leaft that?"
81 Just thought 1t out as 1 sat here.
I'm not sure yet. but II II works we
can have heaps OF hui seeing who can
shoot the furtherSst Let's make a
big arrowr'
Hard wood is best" said Ned, DE
cause we can make 1t small and 1t
doesn't make so much friction going
through the air"
They cut and trimmed a straight
branch Of ironwood. peeled off the
bark and while Ned was cutting the
notch Ted went hunting feathers. He
soon found two crows feathers and l
from ar owl or partridge. He split
these and used the widest side. putting
on three and winding them with
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Sentiment Against Fads
THROUGHOUT the west a strong

THROUGHOUT the west a strong sentiment
l. seems to be crystalizing against the direct pri
mary, the initiative and referendum and the recall
This sentiment cannot be charged entirely to fail
ure of principle involved in these various measures
1t is due to failure to administer these measures
as originally intended. They have become the We
hicles of self seeking politicians and the ~plaything
for the theorist and the agitator, who, under their
operation, can experiment with anything from
single tax to state socialism at the expense of the
voters.
Under the direct primary system. there seems
10 be no way to check the flood of measures or can
didatcs which the people must pass upon.
As a result, the cost of government has increased
out of all proportion to the benefits received by the
governed and in self defense the idea seems to be
growing that the only way to correct the evil is to
amend or do away with the vehicle which makes
possible the abuse.