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THE BAIiRE DAILY TIMES, BARRE, VT.. " TUESDAY, DFCEMBER .3, 1918.
BARRE DAILY TIMES
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1918.
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.ti paper, and alio the local new publuhed
therein.
A granite strike at Quincy, Mass., does
not register so heavily now as it used to.
Almost every incoming liner from now
on will be a ship of joy because it bear
U. S. troops.
American'1 soldiers are touring Europe
not exactly de luxe but in a fairly satis
factory fashion, considering the handicaps.
We hope the dajpvwill never come when
news is so scarce that Harry Thaw can
get back, onto the front pages of the
Dewspaperi.
King Albert of Belgium sticks at the
head of his army, thereby cementing the
affection which has sprung up between
them during more than four years of
hardships. Albert is showing that he is
a real king among men.
Wilson's "hope" for a formal declara
tion of peace by spring is calculated to
set people to thinking. There is a tre
mendously laborious task ahead of the
diplomats, now that the military men
lave gotten through with their work.
Ocean voyagers report nary a German
U-boat nowadays. What a difference
from a few months ago when the sole
topic of conversation aboard a liner was
whether a U-boat would be sighted or
not! The absence of the erstwhile pests
of the sea is, one of the most emphatic
signs of peace.
, The first battle of the new war broke
out in Cleveland to-day when the male
"employes of the street car lines struck
to enforce the discharge of the women
who have been employed as conductors
for several months. The competition be
tween men and women for work is likely
to be very keen, now that women have
been introduced to new employments in
many parts of the country.
If it is desirable to have the president
stay at home to attend to the bills which
come from Congress, then it is even more
desirable for the members of Congress
to stay at home to attend to the frara
ing of Jthose bills. Therefore, the "Cum
mins commission" to sit on the door
steps of the peace conference would, be
more effective on the job in Washington.
Congress needs all its best workers to
help frame the policies of reconstruction.
tion over his proposed departure from
the United State and dissatisfaction
over his determination to participate in
the peace debates were probably reflected
in the strange silence which enveloped
the Republican wing and part of the
Democratic side of the assemblage. . And,
it must be admitted, there are two sides
io the question of the desirability of the
president's choice, albeit the executive in
his talk strove to make it plain that his
proposed participation was wholly im
personal and that it was simply his de
sire to give his "fourteen points" clear
interpretation to the .conference, inas
much as both friend and foe had accepted
those points in their general aspects, that
he was going to the conferencd. - Perhaps
Americans will always differ on the wis
dom of President Wilson's action in go
ing to the conference. Nevertheless, even
that coiwideration should not cause us to
overlook the major points of his address
to Congress in which he outlined, briefly,
some of the proposals for reconstruction
of the country following the year and a
half on a war basis. -
In some of those problems of recon
struction, President Wilson was far from
dictatorial and opinionated; indeed, as in
the railroad matter, he was frank to ad
mit that he was at a loss how to solve
the matter to the best advantage of the
railroads and of the country as a whole
and he appealed to Congress for help. In
his treatment of other matters he indi
cated that he .w.is anxious to arrive at
the best results, whether by his own pre
conceived notions or not it made no par
ticular difference to him. But to get the
best results was his desire. , Surely there
was nothing in the address, except for
his explanation why he was going to Eu
rope, which would cause the noses of any
political party to be twisted out of shape.
When the telegraph instrument began
to pound out the text of President Wil
son's memorable address to Congress
shortly after 1 o'clock yesterday after-(
noon, no one either on the sending or the
receiving end of the wire knew how long
the president was to speak, as no pre
vious intimation had been given out from
the White House; but The Times, like
some of its contemporaries, began an ef;
fort to get the text of the address into
type for presentation to its readers the
same afternoon. Press time approached
and there appeared to be no likelihood
that the sending of the text would be
completed;' so The Times had to go to
press with only a section of the docu
ment in print albeit an admirable sum
mary of the whole address, as prepared
at short notice by the Associated Press,
was presented to our readers, Mean
while the special leased wire into The
Times office continued to pound out the
message and kept it up until a few min
utes after 6 o'clock when the last word
of the president's document was spelled
out. So to-day we are printing the ver
batim address of the president and we
bespeak for it a careful reading, as it in
cludes matters of national and inter
national importance which should be in
the minds of everyone.
BETHEL ,
At a meeting of Rising Star grange
last evening, the resignation of Miss
Etta Parsons as lecturer was accepted,
and Mrs. W. H. Arnold was elected to
that office.- Three candidates were initi
ated in the first and second degrees.
Resolutions were adopted regarding the
late Sergt.Charles M, Beckwith. s-
Active preparations are being made by
the various committees on the Universal
ist fair, which is to be hedl Thursday
and Friday of this week.
Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Washburn were
in Morrisville last Sunday to attend the
funeral of Mrs. Ellen Gallup. On their re
turn they were accompanied by Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. Atchinson, who are here for a
visit.
Stanley Every of Canadensis, Pa., well
known here in former years as a Christ
mas tree man, is in town.
The woman's club held an interesting
meeting yesterday at the home of Mrs.
Alice Bartlctt. The chief item of the
program was a paper by Mrs. F, E. Wal
lace. Two candidates for membership were
received at the Congregational church
last Sunday. '
Frank Gushing is back in town afT
spending the summer on the road.
Lewii F. Edmunds has moved his fam
ily from Royalton to the Edmunds home
stead on Pleasant street.
Carl B. Spencer has returned from vis
iting hia mother in Gianiteville.
Principal Davis spent a part of his
Thanksgiving recess with Supt. V. K.
Braakctt in South Koyalton.
John N. Beckwith of Springfield, Mass.,
is here for a snort visit with his par
ents.
PRESIDENT WILSON'S TEMPORARY
VALEDICTORY.
In his address to Congress on the eve
of his departure for Paris to engage in
the peace conference, President Wilson
was the most plain-spoken that he has
been in any of his recent utterances of a
public nature. The address was not so
NORTH MONTPELIER
The North Montpcier Dramatic club
will present "Lighthouse an, a com
edy drama, in the hall Thursday and
Friday evenings, 4Jec. 12 and 13. adv.
O. L. Fray and hu. Pitkin were visit
ors in Montpelier Saturday.
Don't forget the entertainment, "Fa
ther Time's Jubilee," Friday evening, to
be given by the children for the benefit
of the Sunday school. After th enter
tainment a dance will be held for the
benefit of the Red Cross. Everybody
command nelp out two worthy causes.
Music, Dudley's orchestra.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stoddard were
In Plain field Saturday. .
Mr. Maker of Hartford, Conn., was a
visitor in town Friday afternoon and
evening.
Georjre Daniels and men are moving
and setting up a sawmill.
AVesley Benjamin has moved his fam
ily into George Pray's house for the win
ter. Dr. Foot of Burlington was in town
Monday.
Mrs. Carr of Barre visited her sister,
Mrs. McKinstry, over Sunday.
EAST BARRE
The W. C. T. U. will meet Wednesday
afternoon at 2 o'clock with Mrs. C. 8.
Cooney.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Norris have re
turned here for the winter. Mr. Norris
has been engaged in special war work in
several places the past year.
Mr. and Mrs. Ward Silver have been
visiting her sister, Mrs. Forrest Bellows
of Richford, for several days.
Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Whitcomb and
family spent Thursday and Friday of
last week with relatives in Morrisville
and vicinitj
HEAVY ATTACK
ON ASSESSORS
(Continued from first page.)
mittee were unable to say whether the
worker would be employed permanently.
It had been estimated that such a worker
might be engaged for $20 per week.
The city, through its council, is to ioin
officially in an invitation to the National
Retail Monument DeJlers' association to
hold its next convention in Barre next
August. Sec. II. P. Hinman and Sec.
II. A. Phelps of the Granite Manufactur
ers' association and the Board of Trade
appeared to urge co-operation, and they
met with a hearty reception, as the may
or was authorized to append his name to
4 1 a ! i :l i . i
mo iiiviwiiiuii wnen n m iinauy mawei.
Property owners on Smith street sent
in a protest against the alleged diveiwion
of a natural water course, whereby the
so-called Italian Athletic field is being
flooded. The protest was referred to the
committee 6f the whole. Bonds for two
tuberculosis patients who are going to a
sanatorium in Haydensville, Mass., for
treatment were ordered executed. On
the recommendation of the building in
spector, the city clerk was directed to
notify the owner and the agent of a shed
on Hall street that it must be removed
within 10 days. The building is on prop
erty once occupied by H. A. Rugg and
has been condemned as a menace. The
inspector's report for November, covering
40 minor permits issued, was accepted,
as was Chief Sinclair's November police
report, which referred to 15 arrests for
intoxication and one each for keeping
and selling liquor illegally.
The following warrants were approved:
Street payroll, $185.98; engineering pay
roll, $36.81; fire payroll, $140.57; police
payroll, $105.87; G. A. Bemis, $16, serv
ices as janitor.
U. S. EXPENDITURES
WILL BE REDUCED
BY OVER TWO-THIRDS
STILL USE SUGAR CARDS.
Asserts StateFood Administrator Brooks
to the Public.
The abolition of the certificate plan of
distributing sugar to dealers and manu
facturers should not be interpreted as
meaning that the use of sugar cards in
the' Rale of sugar to household consum
ers is also eliminated, said Federal Food
Administrator Frank H. Brooks last
evening. Mr. Brooks specifically orders
that the card system be continued to
cover at least the December and Janu
ary ale$ in those communities where it
has been installed, which means practi
cally the whole state. In communities
which do not have the card system, the
allowance to consumers is to be four
pounds e month, per member of the fam
ily, purchased in weekly or monthly lots,
as the customer desires, and dealers mut
exercise every precaution to prevent du
plication of purchases. Dealers and man
ufacturers no longer are required to se
cure certificates upon which to purchase
sugar from the wholesalers, but, until
Jan. 15 at least, they must confine their
purchase to a 30-days' supply. Liberali
zation of this rule after Jan. 15 will be
conditioned on the free arrival of Cuban
raw sugar.
Mr. Brooks is instructing county and
local administrators to keep an eye on
prices to prevent any skyrocketing of
charges to the public for essential food
commodities. "The rule that profits can
not exceed those obtained under pre-war
conditions stiU holds good, and will hold
good until the food administration come
to an end, which is at the formal dec
laration of peace by the president," he
said. "The food administration conceives
one of its chiefest functions to be the
securing of fair prices and the protec
tion of the consumer against profiteer
ing," Mr. Brooks stated in declaring hi
intention to see that fair prices be main
tained. He has instructed local admin
istrators to enforce the sugar regula
tions strictly and to five immediate at
tention to charges of profiteering.
The Expenses for the Fiscal Year Begin
ning Next July Are Estimated at
$7,443,415,838, McAdoo
' Reports.
Washington, D. C, Dec. 3. Cessation
of war will result in a reduction of gov
ernment expenses for the fiscal year 1020,
starting next July .1, to $7,443,415,838
from $24,500,000,000 appropriated for the
current year, according to tentative esti
mates submitted to Congress yesterday
by Secretary McAdoo,transmi"tting the
reports of the various departments.
The principal reduction was for the
military establishment, which estimates
its needs at $1,092,000,000 in 1020, as
compared with $12,274,000,000 appropri
ated for this year. Before the signing of
the armistice with Germany it had been
figured that the army alone would need
more than $10,000,000,000 for 1020.
The navy's estimates for 1020 are $2,
505,000,000 as compared with $1,501,000,
000 appropriated for the current year, an
increase of a billion dollars, despite the
closing of the war. There is nothing to
show what' it was estimated the navy
would have needed had the war contin
ued. These estimates may be pared down
considerably later when the actual needs
of the government in closing out war
contracts become clearer.
Including $574,237,000 estimated for
fortifications, the total contemplated out
lay on the army amounts to $2,497,000,
000. A striking figure in the army estimates
is the $144,943,000 for air service pro
duction. The appropriations last year
under this head were $760,000,000. Jt is
evident that in reducing War estimates
the war department is proposing not to
lose all that has been gained in aircraft
development during the war, but plans
to continue construction and manufac
ture on a fairly large scale.
The largest single reduction from the
appropriations for this year for the army
is in pay, travel and general expendi
tures, the new estimate for next year
.being f 327,678.000, as against $2,367,000,
000 appropriated for this year. Similar
ly larire reduction is made in Quarter
master's estimates for supplies, clothing,
quarters, including cantonments and
similar expenditures, the new figure be
ing $011,789,000, as compared to $5,451,
000,000 appropriated for this year.
Virtually all estimates for various
navjLpurposes uhow substantial increases
over appropriations for the current year.
The pay Hem goes up to $579,046,000
from $227,372,000; expenditures on ships
already authorized goes to $233,085,000
from $59,397,000 this year, and an addi
tional $200,000,000 is asked as the first
Increment on the new three-year pro- j
gram, which has been proposed. Sub- j
sistenre and supplies is given as $202,
343,000, as compared with $75,520,0001
this year, and ammunition needs are es-j
Fall
Furnishings
THAriILL FIND NEW
. ' FRIENDS '
?-si- casta'
We couldn't expect to keep
them here very long they
4 are too good looking, clean
and .inviting to be resisted
by any man whose winter
wardrobe needs replenish
ing. Ties, shirts, gloves, hosiery,
pajamas, handkerchiefs
in fact, everything that be
longs to the furnishing fam
ily of the most dependable
quality and modest pricing
will be found here to-day.
S5r a. V
F. H. Rogers &
Company
timated at $125,000,000 as compared to
$82,519,000.
For new postoffices, customs houses
and other federal buildings only $1,567,
000 is asked, but this is in addition to
existing appropriations for these pur
poses not spent during the war. The re
qiie.st for rivers and harbors amounts to
$19,870,000, barely enough to continue
existing projects.
The shipping board puts its require
ments at $579,452,000, about one-third of
the $1,505,000,000 already appropriated.
The appropriations asked for the post
al service amount to $358,000,000, al
though it is covered by expected income
from postal revenues.
SOUTH FAIRLEE
E. W. Pierce has sold his farm and for
the present is living in the old school
house. Mrs. Jackson left Saturday to spend
the winter with relatives in Germantown.
Pa.
Miss Adessa Bond spent Sunday with
friends in Fairlee.
much like a studied oratorical effort asV' Jfrs. Vern Tomllnson and son,
It was like a plain man-to-man conver
sation on matters which are of pre-emi
nent concern to the whole American peo
ple. And yet its very contents must
have been eloquence itself. That the en
tire assemblage, Republicans and Demo
crats, who heard the address, did not ac
cord it a cordial reception at the close
must have been due to the continuation
of a state of mind which had been built
up a long time before and which was
brought into the chamber of the national
House on the occasion of the joint as
sembly that marked the opening of the
last session of the 65th Congress. It is
probable that the Republicans and Demo
crats alike would have applauded en
thusiastically all that President Wilson
said up to the point where he began to
explain why he was going abroad to en
gage in the peace conference, which ex
planation, unfortunately for the psycho
logical effect on the entire audience, came
at the very conclusion of the address.
The silence on the part of one side of
the chamber when the president's words
had ceased must have ten a protest
against his going to Europe at this time
rather than a protest against the senti
ments expressed through the whole bulk
of the important document. Dissatisfac-
Merle, have gone to Bristol, Conn., to
spend the winter.
Miss Grace Bixby returned to her
studies at the U. V. M. in Burlington
last Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. James Roark, who have
been living in Springfield, Mass., the past
few months, have returned home. .
Miss Erma Cooney is visiting friends In
St'. Albans for several days.
The drive for funds to carry on the
work of the East Barre Congregational
church for the year 1919 will be made
Sunday afternoon, Dec. 8.
Influenza and kindred
diseases start with a coldo
Don't trifle with it.
At the first shiver or
sneeze, take
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