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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-03-07

entire wheat crop Of the year, not to
the amount Of wheat in sight at any
one time. Similarly they applied Che
percentage Of loss in corn value per
bushel, on the downward swing, and
the percentage Of decline in value of
live hogs and live cattle, during the
dehation period to the entire crop OF
the year and to all existing live farm
animals Of the two classes. The re-
suit has been to make pseudo show
ing Of fantastic farm losses running
into the tens of billions of dollars. On
the same line Of reasoning, to apply
the percentage of rise in values Of
wheat, Of corn, Of hogs, Of cattle, since
the new imitation in farm product val
ues began, to the total grain and live
stock output, statisticians could show
that the farmer, on the upward swing
of the pendulum, already has got back
numerous billions in values.
Neither proposition is logical Or
reasonable. Farm product values
shrank so much under dehation that no
holder of grain or livestock would sell
unless forced to do 50. Unfortunately
many were so forced and that, in it.
self, caused the extremes of low prices
and delayed the upward swing. In
time, however, the rise began and those
producers who have withheld their
grain and their hogs from the market |
are getting the benefit. Corn in Iowa !
and Nebraska has sold as low as 20 /
cents a bushel within five months.
Wheat in Kansas, North Dakota and /
has dropped as low as
30 cents bushel. The advance from I
those figures to present at-the farm
prices represents more than 100 per
cent on wheat, from the extreme low
mark of deaation. 1t represents also
he difference between disaster and
comfort, At prices now obtaining for
wheat, corn and pork the producers
should be well satisfied always pro-
riding that too much does not leak
nut to unnecessary middlemen and
,peculators."
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-03-07
LETTERS ToTHE EDITOR
Lack Of Efficiency.

Editor, Times: saw piece in
your paper short time ago. where
our commissioner Of agriculture
claimed that we were losing $1,000
900 year by not making better
grade OF butter, and ! presume that
this is so, and am sure that we also
are losing more than $l,000,000 every
year by not making better grade Of
maple products.
Now this means great loss to the
state OF Vermont and this is brought
about through the lack of efficiency
in about one-half of the producers OF
these products, and we all have to suf-
fer for this reason. This seems too
bad, after VIC. have been to the eN-
pense Of the equipment and practically
all the hard work, to lose out for the
lack Of little effort Of few pro-
ducers.
But this is not all, as this lack Of
efficiency seems to penetrate our
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-03-07

schools and all OF our state depart
ments. II is good deal like the old
saying Of the three boys, "One boy
a good boy, two boys half boy, and
three boys no boy at all" | think
that we have the three boys in most
all our departments. II is just the
lack Of efficiency. II we could drop
out one Of the number and set the
other half to work we might get re-
suits and save at least 81 10000 there.
But the fact is, all along the line
everyone is rendering the least posi-
BILE service for the money received,
Our schools are costing almost twice
what they did five years ago and we
are not getting nearly as good service
in our rural schools as we We're at that
time, and as long as everything takes
the trend that ii does now, that -, the
least possible service for the biggest
possible dollar, don't see much chance
for Improvement.
Where our retail merchants used to
be satisfied with a Is per cent profit,
they cannot get along now with less
than 80 per cent profit, and so it
goes. &. A. Badger.
East Montpelier, VT, March 4, 1922.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-03-07
CURRENT COMMENT
The Bonus and the Banks.

Practical bankers instantly fasten
upon the weak points Of the new boz
nus scheme, in so far as it inyades the
banking field. Few commercial banks,
probably, would like to make loans on
the service certificates. Suppose the
borrower soon defaults on his interest
payments, the bank must carry the
loan until 1925 before getting its mon
ely back from the government. In the
meantime, loans of this class would be
frozen" and be an embarrassment
to commercial banks, which make
loans usually for not more than 80
days in order to keep as liquid as
possible. If the banks were not re-
quired bylaw to make such loans, they
would be disinelined to engage at all
in the business; and they would prob
ably do it only as concession to a
strong public sentiment.-Springfield
Republican.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-03-07
Col. Harvey,s Court Dress.

AT the wedding of the Princess Mary
and viscount Lascelles the American
ambassador is said to have appeared
in "a high hat. dark velveteen jacket,
silk knee brooches with fancy buttons,
silk stockings. and patent leather
pumps" We assume that he wore
those glasses with the big tense and
black rims and that his stature was
undiminished.
If there is any substance of fact
behind the London rumor that the re-.
doubtable Col. George has the presi-
Dental bee in his bonnet his oppo-
nents need hardly do more than dis
tribute judiciously few thousands Of
pictures, of all sizes, showing him as
he looked at Westminster Abbey and
the part he took in making the we'd
ding great spectacle.-Boston Herald.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-03-07
INCREASED VALUE OF FARM
PRODUCTS.

The recent advance in value of farm
products is one that promises better
things for the country at large and
especially for Barre. The Boston
Transcript calls attention to this adj
vance and what it means to the farm
er. 1t says,
at is probable that comparatively
few persons realize the extent to which
values Of leading farm products, at the
primary markets, have risen since the
low point was reached late last year
and since the new imitation began--the
pendulum on the upward swing. Since
the latter part of 1921 the price of
wheat, as quoted at the Chicago pit,
has advanced from a minimum OF
about 9s cents to the present figures
around $l.46, an advance of 4S.9s per
cent. Within approximately the same
time quotations on corn have advanced
from a low mark to 445s cents to
around 67Ia cents bushel, an advance
OF 5l.26 per cent. Moving up even
faster than has corn, the price of the
live hog corn in its. most approved
animal formulas advanced from GIG
cents pound Chicago stockyard quo
tations for week ending Nov. 10, 1921,
to about ll.05 cents pound, at Chi
cago this week. This is an increase
of 63.48 per cent. As to live cattle,
the increase in price value is not
marked. There are elements entering
into the situation which do not APP
ply to hogs, for there are many range
cattle to be reckoned with and times
on the ranges have been exceptionally
bad. Also there has been diminution
of herds, because of lower prices If
milk and butter. The advance on
heavy weight, medium to choice"
steers has been from an average of
DIPS cents a pound late in December
to 9.45 cents this week, or an advance
Of 3.56 per cent. 1t is generally re-
garded that the rise in cattle values
hardly has begun.
"The custom OF statisticians afiili-
ated with the radical wing of the farm
organizations, and even of some who
train with the agricultural bloc has
been to give out weird figures which |
they say represent the loss in values
to farmers of the United States
through the defation that ended some
time ago. Their method was to APP
ply the percentage of decline in wheat !
values, from high point to low, to the !
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-03-07

President Harding says life the past
year has been so full that there's
scarcely any impression outstanding
before he went to Washington except
one and that his viewpoint Of the
Senate compared with what it is to-
day. The president should not become
discouraged SO early in his term.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-03-07
Cut This Quilt Is Worth Money.

Tut his Out-it is worm money.
Cut out this slip, enclose with So and
mail it to Foley a Co.. 1885 Sheffield
Ave-, Chicago, ILL.,, writing your name
and address clearly. Your will receive
in return a trial package containing
Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for
coughs, colds and Group; Foley Kidney
Pills for pains In sides and back; rheu-
matism, backache, kidney and bladder
ailments; and Foley Cathartic Tablets,
a wholesome and thoroughly cleansing
cathartio for constipation, biliousness,
headaches, and sluggish bowels. Sold
everywhere adv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-03-07

With the March town meetings out
Of the way there promises to be in
creased interest in state politics.
Evening star., 1922-08-22
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY ELSIE ROBINSON.

Society il full Of bilious bleaters
who complain that the world is going
to the dogs because woman is leav-
ing her natural sphere According
to these disgruntied souls. women. ir-
respective Of coSoring, size. disposi-
ton or skull capacity. should be
housekeepers. Now why should all
women be housekeepers any more
than all men should be plumbers?.
do believe that married life, when
properly conducted. offers the perfect
utopia for the average woman. But
why should 1t only be conducted from
the dishpan platform? Generally
speaking. woman can find happiness
and evolve success from the score of
crafts which constitute "housekeep-
ing''-but not always.
There are women whose minds are
as specialized as the minds of some
men. Your average man can tinker
around a machine shop and make a
living, Just as your average woman
can tinker around a kitchen. But
now and then there's n man who is a
perfect fool with hammer or saw.
I'And now and then there is a woman
, who is perfect fool with an egg beater
or needle.
You may teach them from now to
willing to learn. But till the end of
time that man will be a fifth-rate
mechanic and that woman a fifth
rate housekeeper. Yet, given their
right vocations. they might be bril-.
liant successes. Then why not put
them to their right vocations? Do you
discard horse because he doesn't bear
Evening star., 1922-08-22
The Wife Who Wouldn't !.
Settle Down!
Sequel to s'Brides Will Be Brides
By Lucille Tan Slyke.
By Lucille Fan Slyke.
A Sequel to ssBrides Will Be Brides

tainly was a bit cold -blooded and
hard to move-to semblance OF de-
votion.
To be sure she had to start with
heavy handicap! He didn't like her
and was prejudiced against her. He
had feeling that anybody as popular
as she was must have something In
applicable about her-and being New
Englandy-oh, very-he thought he
didn't like that sort of thing.
But she had him bit or guard
for she had just superintended q
made him feel gently at peace with
the world. and she had played golf
like nice sensible boy all the after
noon with him, and she looked de.
lightfully innocent with her rect
curled up in the hammock and with
her eyelashes dropped demurely. .
so glad you don't care for bridge,
she murmured. II think men with
really deep minds never do
She was spreading it thick. she toid
herself. but she smothered q smile
as he took it!
"They talk about card sense" he
drawled. well. it seems to me to
exhibit a lack Of sense to want TO
bother with anything SO simpler
well, of course 1t doesn't seem
simple to the ORDINARY mind" Merriam
He expanded gently. After all. this
frivolous little thing did have some
sense! She could appreciate an In.
telligent man when she met one!
Possibly those gay young things who
dangled at her heels really annoyed
her. She seemed genuinely glad to
have told young Hal Blaisdell Good
night" and she seemed to sigh, with
relief when Kirk Squires. who was
in an exceedingly ffippant mood, was
settled at the bridge table.
She didn't bother him with chatter.
She swayed and hummed gently-the
! same scrap Of tune he had been whis-
tling throughout the afternoon. A nice
lazy little tune.
Presently she leaned forward ever
so slightly, fixed her brown eyes upon
him and said very gently.
Where were you born?
{ He was off! He. too. leaned forward.
;; That's funny. your asking that
question right that minute, he con-
fessed. because l was thinking about
our old house and how much more
than these ephemeral settlements OF
commuters that spring up around
! New York.
Rose Lindsay. at the bridge table.
couldn't hear what he was saying as
his voice droned along, but she could
see how eagerly he was leaning to-
! ward Merriam and she could see Mer-
riams interested attitude.
She sighed, and as she sighed John
Lindsay looked out toward the porch.
! Kirk Squires saw him look and
! laughed gently as he dealt the cards.
! Some gal, That Mistress Merry" he
; joked gently. "She gets us all. sooner
j or later. Look at poor old Ferry. the
woman hater-just eating out of her
hand"
| Poppy Dubois. who was In the
secret. grinned. She bid two hearts.
She gently added fuel to the flames
| "Mr Ferry looks to me like one of
| those queer. reticent folk who never
| fall in love but once, and then. when
| they do she rolled her eyes
| dramatically and sighed. Don't you
| think so, Miss Rose" she asked
| brightly.
Copyright. 1927
CONTINUED in Tomorrow's Starr
Evening star., 1922-08-22
Things Seldom What They Seem.

AN/ Lindsay wanted to be ir-
! " " resistible-why, she just
! was! She didn't follow any
bromidic rules mentioned In advice to
/; the lovelorn She had an infallible
! rule that she had discovered in early
childhood. And it had nothing to do
with donning her Sunday clothes or
powdering her retrousse nose or
wheedling or cajoling. Truth was. 1t
wasn't at all what she thought it was
that made 1t possible for her to hold
J her victims attention--she thought
lit was her rule, but it was really a
! combination of brown eyes with an
| interested look in them. plus the teas
ing twinkle that just naturally lurked
| in their unfathomable depths.
No. Merriam herself did not under
stand that the eyes did it! She was
firm believer in her rule, which was
something like this: Let him Cor her.
! but by all means preferably himo
tell you anything at all about every
| thing he Cor she) wants to talk about.
and once in a while interrupt them
with something just teensy bit
saucy, and all the while act awfully
! impressed
But they always just talk about
themselves" protested an astute
young thing to whom Merriam had In
an dance moment confided
all this, especially the men. and they
are such conceited creatures"
Merriam had laughed at her.
| How discerning you are. Edith
But don't you see. if man is inter
ested in himself. he'ly usually talk
very entertaingly about his favorite
subject - himself - and you'll be
amused or interested. and. if he's a
bore-why. you don't have to listen
so long as YOU seem to be listening
You can be planning your next yeas
clothes, or thinking up al immortal
poem or great invention"
But don't see how you start them
off, Edith had walled. They al
ways seem to have such lots to say
to you"
Merriam had grinned.
| stopping 'em is harder than start
, SO generous as to impart her starting
| rule.
Which was deliciously simple.
! If they won't talk abou. them.
selves. they will always talk about
| their ancestors"
tied herself in the corner of her
own hammock and glanced through
| the living room door to a little grouI
1 that Poppy Dubois had lashed to the
bridge table and that included Poppy
herself. Rose Lindsay, Kirk Squire:
| and Merriams own John. Donalt
| Ferry. who didn't like bridge, was
| stretched in Johns easy chair on the
| porch, just lighting cigar.
| Merriam had the stage set exact
| ly as she wanted it. 1t was going &c
| be delightfully."- simple to make Rose
: think that Donald was becoming
| much Interested in Merriam.
/ And if she just gets stirred up
little bit. she's have to put out hel
hand to grab what's hers" Merriam
thought dreamily "and they'll marry
and let US live happily ever after"
| So she leaned gently forward. do
! mestic. we'll intentioned little Circe
to rouse Mr.. Donald Ferry-who. GER
Evening star., 1922-08-22
Is Arthritis Rheumatic?

1 learned a long while ago that
when a reader writes that he. has
gastritis he means he thinks there is
too much gas in his stomach. These
medical terms are confusing. learned
only recently that when a reader asks
for something to clear or purify his
blood he usually means he has some
pimples or othe.. skin blemishes. And
although pimples and most other skin
troubles are not more to be associ-
ated with impure blood than gastritis
is with gas in the stomach, 1 can
readily understand how such notions
have been engendered by the perusal
of the almanac on long winter eve
ninss. s.
Probably twenty years ago the ver-
satile valetudinarian got hep, as they
say in Chelsea, to new name for
his aches and pains, name which
had a very gratifying fashionable
ring and sort Of lifted the gifted one
above the level of ordinary seventy
per centers. 1t was neuritis, and the
term seemed admirably fitted for any
ache or pain with fashionable pos
sibilities! 1t suggested something
novel and original, something new, in
short. For several years. to judge by
the spread of this select malady, the
400. ffguratively speaking, must have
v1sked overtime discovering new
treatments for the new tits. There is
still magic in the term neuritfs, for
the unsophisticated, but as ficti-
tious diagnosis it is now practically
petered out. Perhaps the deluded
ones gained some inkling that actual
nerve inflammation is often caused by
alchol, vulgar and even humiIiating
infections, and industrial poisons such
as lead and arsenic. Often enough,
at any rate, to keep the well in
formed from Boosting of his neuritis
One of the latest terms to achieve
Evening star., 1922-08-22
PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE
Ry William Brady. Nj, ID,
Noted Physician and author.

popularity is. arthritis. ! find from
correspondence with readers that
arthritis enjoys the dignity of anew
disease in the estimation of the laity.
One discovers this term, learns to
pronounce the first long. and tosses
the old rheumatism in the ash can.
Arthritis has class, and nearly all the
doctors believe in 1t. that is. they ad-
nit that folks really have it even
though the folks themselves think
they do.
Arthritis may be artful but not in
the least artistic: 1t is nothing more
than another disappointing medical
term for joint Inflammation. 1t doesn't
matter whether the joint inflamma-
ton is, a mar won in honorable or
dishonorable battle Some ten or
fifteen per cent or arthrftiS cases Of
q chronic character or of more than a
few weeks duration. are caused by
per. cent are caused by tuberculosis.
But the great majority are due to
focal infection. usually with strain
or type of bacteria called steptococci.
the septic focus in which they lodge
and thrive and multiply and form
which they fare forth into the blood
stream to find some nice tender joint
lining or heart lining or gall sac lin
ing to attack, being depot or ter
minal somewhere on the mucous sur
face.
Joints and their lining (serous)
have a rather inferior
circulation and the tissues and cells
are none too well supplied with
nutriment. Many modes of treat
ment, aside from removing septic foci
and opposing focal infection. do good
in arthritis by influencing the local
circulation and hence the nutrition
Of the tissues and cells affected.
Evening star., 1922-08-22

hold scent. Never forget that! II
you can run a short distance in water
your scent will stop right at the edge
Of the water. Then, unless the dog
fs smart enough to flnd out where
you leave the water. you will have
nothing more to worry about from
him."
Then why doesn't father do that?"
thought he would have done it right
away. I would"
Probably he has done It," replied
Mrs. Reddy. Il don't doubt he has
been over to the Laughing Brook and
Waded along in 1t for long distance.
But Bowser the Hound is smart and
knows this trick. If your father tried
IT you may be sure that Bowser
simply ran up and down on both
banks Of the Laughing Brook with
his nose to the ground until he found
where your father came out of the
water. That trick might work with
young dog. but 1t won't work with
Bowser the Hound. Another trick is
to run back along your own trail
and then make a long jump off to
one side. That often will work, but
not with Bowser the Hound. He has
learned that trick"
Are there any other tricks" piped
up the smartest Of the young Foxes.
Lots Of them" replied Mrs. Reddy
1T Is very good trick to run into
a flock of sheep and frighten them
SO that they trample all over your
trail and SO destroy it. But I can't
tell you now all the tricks. You will
Evening star., 1922-08-22

wool or a goat because it doesn't cackle" "
No, you adopt each animal to its proper
work. Then why not use equal sense
and Imagination with women?
But who's going to keep the
homes?" you ask in a mean tone.
Those who are fitted to do SO. More
over, 1 would suggest that we begin
to manage things so that we'll know
who is fitted and who isn't, and SO
they'll know 1t. too.
I believe that the rudiments of
housekeeping and home management
should be taught all girls from the
day they enter the kindergarten and
that. during the grammar grades.
such teaching should constitute the
major part OF their instruction. I
think that such teaching would be
our greatest protection against un-
happy marriages, for 1t would not
only equip all future wives but
would show those who are utterly
untitled for housekeeping that such
Is not their sphere.
The discovery that she was unified
for and disliked housework need not
necessarily imply that woman
wouldn't make a good wife any more
than an aversion to lawn moving
would disqua1ify man for the hus-
band job. Many a beauty specialist
is also very popular wife. And it
would prevent vast deal of waste
full whining.
Copyright, 1927
Evening star., 1922-08-22
Coffee Frame.

When making coffee frappe. two
quarts Of water are put into a tea
kettle and brought quickly to a boil,
then seven ounces Of finely ground
coffee are put into a small double
boiler. and the water poured over II
as soon as the water is boiling. Oc-
casionally it should be stirred. and
after five minutes 1t should be
strained through a muslin cloth. One
pound of sugar should then be STIR
red in until it is all dissolved and the
liauid allowed to cool. Break a fresh
egg and separate the white and yolk
but do not beat it. Add the white to
the coffee and freeze it until it is
like wet snow. then serve it in punch
glasses The yolk Of the egg may
be used in making a golden cake to
serve with the coffee frappe.
Evening star., 1922-08-22
Diarv of a Professional Movie Fan
GLADYS
)f This and That, With Alice
BY GLADYS HALL.

Joyce.
Once I talked with Alice Joyce
when she was on her honeymoon
her last honeymoon. I mean. When
s.%.e collaborated with Mr.. Reagen.
Vitagraph studio at the time. and |
went down and had tea with her
there, and then we motored home
in her lavender and gray car ana
talked of ships and shoes and seal
ing wax and cabbages and kings
knows
And of getting into ruts-
And of her child. which is now
become children. Involved. but you
know what 1 mean.
I've always been an Alice Joyce
fan. Especially when l first went
to pictures and saw her. when she
was with Kalem. I would close my
eyes and pray for Aladdin's lamp that
| might rub it and wish that l could
just like her. She was an ideal type
to me.
OF later years she has changed,
people say.
1 asked her if SO. why so:
pose" she said. I'VE grow as we
live, and the growth shows. And
with me, as / have gone on. I have
grown surer and wiser. l have grown
camera-wise, story-wise, light-wise
and self-wise.
my great danger is getting into a
rut. It's great danger with me.
That is my chief reason for living
in New York. If I lived in Brooklyn
or a suburb 1 know that l should
take to wrapper and staying at
home in tho evenings. Eventually.
no doubt. solitaire. perhaps idiots de-
light. would be my sole form of ex-
element. But in New York. where
every one is so much up and doing.
one must keep abreast of the tide or