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Ask Anyone Ask anyone you know which is the highest quality baking powder and almost invariably they will tell you ROYAL. "My cakes are 100 better since I bought that can of Royal," writes one delighted user, and everywhere among your friends, neigh bors, relatives you will hear similar commendations. Royal Contains No Alum Leaves No Bitter Taste LAMOILLE BANNER COUNTY IN ENFORCING PROHIBITORY LAW (Prom the Morrisville Messenger) Court Records Prove More Arrests, More Convictions, More Fines Collected and Paid to State and Low er Cost of Same Than in Any City or County of Its Size in the State. Timely Comments by the Press Sentiments from Localities Mentioned in Free Press Arti cles on the Booze Question All Uphold Law, Enforce ment but Demand Facts First. MISREPRESENTATION tician, if he wants to make an hon est investigation, that not onlv do With a grotesque mingling of wild, they see no signs of intoxication sob-sister vocabulary, in which the among the students of Middlebury ruddy-faced, leg-weary children of College, 4but that they never have Addison county plod through the clay fears of riots, mobs or disturbances, with their little thin legs lapped by nor do restaurant patrons dodge be- waves of rum, and a muddle of lurid, hind counters, fearful lest pies will misshapen statement, the Burlington be crammed down their unwilling Free Press assumes the role of throats. undertaker and lays poor old Addison Shifting from florid description to county out in a set of lavender raucug accusation, the Free Press pajamas. No better example of boldly asserts that a political ring driveling dotage could be found than centering in Middlebury has the this garbled jumble of misrepresenta- whoie county in a hopeless grasp, and turn as saffron as any that ever that it is organized for purposes of bismirched a journalism even as yel- piunder and the protection of "booze" low as Hearstism. dealers. Responsible citizens are said Cumbersome and gauche as the ; to be authority for such a charge, tree Press is, it is difficult to see Thi is tntDm0nf .;a is sweeping. Come through with the facts, please. Show up ,this cor ruption amlong the officials of Addi son county, and do it now, how it could so blunder as to lose all sight of newspaper ethics and honor, or resurt to a clever twisting of a frank statement given them by a frank man, into a .misleading impres- I rr ' ' . , sion, or to charge that Addison ' To erve c.unmnS Ptoses the county is helpless before the politi-, fre es? kes use of figures that, cal gang that is swamping the streets I n themselves, mean very little but . . . . ' . . - Which w h on nrnnavltr man mi nfn with "booze," or to making of all sorts of charges, without substantiat ing one of them with facts that can he called real. A paper sinks into a pit of indecency when it resorts to such disreputable methods. The attack on Addison county and Middlebury College seems to rise in a blackened cloud, like a smoke screen, to camouflage home difficul ties, trials and tribulations. It is a which, when properly manipulated, show an appalling increase in intoxi cation in Addison county. It is stated that in the period from May to November, 1922, afrests for intoxica tion increased 900 percent over the corresponding period in 1918. True. But why not give all the facts? The truth is that during the last strenu ous days of the war, from May to November, 1918, when four million The official records of the courts effectively refute tli3 unfounded, hear-say, sob-sister stuff written for the Free Press, and recently printed in that paper, slandering both this county and its officials, regarding the enforcement of the liquor laws. ' The' Burlington News' ' interview of State's Attorney Tracy of Johnson Tuesday was as laudatory of this county and its citizens as the other paper was derogatory. From what Mr. Tracy had told us at different times re garding the number of arrests and convictions; the amount of fines paid into the state treasury, and the cost .of law enforcement, we do not think the News exaggerated the actual truth in the following "scare head" story: Children Cry for Fletcher's It was only after jfears of research in the fields of herbs and roots for a combination of purely vegetable matter that Avonld have all the virtues of Castor Oil, without its disagreeable, nauseating properties,' especially when used for infants or children, that the formula used in Fletcher's Castoria was found, and which for over 30 years has proven its worth. Try It. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of A i ' . it, j murky landscape the Free Press : ',,CI ' , w"e 111 nce, ana paints, but where are the facts? It I en. a11 hnds ,at .home were putting is a cunningly woven woof, but where is the warp? Let it be understood that Addison county does not presume to stand up and lay claim to a badge" for lily whiteness. Let it be understood that we do not deny that the bootlegger has plied his trade. He does every heart and soul into the strucjrle there was one case of intoxication in Addison county municipal , court During the same period in 1922, there were nine arrests and convictions. Of these nine, two were first offenses and two hardened habituals from Mid dlebury, one from Ripton, one from where, and everybody knows it. But 1 YePes:, one rm f 'ncoln, one the resnons b e cit zens of At d son i visiiwi county do emphatically deny . that they are gasping to keep heads afloat, from Schroon Lake, whose belt was already stretched with his cargo when floundering in a sea of "booze," until la"u, neB a me ngures. the Free Press shows them that they fd'dn eFtee i8 fu Just Because we are not in touch with ' i00 Perfe,nt th.at glares so boldly in the student body of the University of lue unes . Yel ms! aer, om Vermont, we cannot answer for their , cas ,in one Period' nine ln the other- conduct. We, however, are in touch with the students of Middlebury Col Addison county is in a precarious position, we'll admit, located as it is lege and we state flatly that they are m a direct path from Burlington, not menace.! bv bontlee-irers and where, since the old days of Drohibi moonshiners, "-entered in Middlebury on a"d McCarthy's, it has always and Drotected bv a nolltical rimr " , beer possible to get a real thirst From personal knowledge we will say quenched. But we are as yet far that intoxication does not give the from inundated and Middlebury Col administration of Middlebury College ,eSe is sti11 composed of sober young one minute's worry, that it is at an , '"en. notwithstanding the allegations undeniable minimum. Only once has OI " r ree rress this administration ever been obliged The Free Press has plenty of room to consider a case, and that was for study of booze conditions right at away back last year. In this particu- home, before it leap-frocs into Addi- lar case the offending bootlegger, son county and spreads a string of wno came trom a neighboring county, i statements that are not backed by was brought to justice, and the student in question has left college. President Moody, who resents being misquoted, covers nothing up because he knows there is nothing to cover. He at',empted to be straightforward and honest in a statement to a paper thatN he thought would respect his frankness and honesty. His attempt was rewarded with a vicious trickery. Store keepers, restaurant keepers and police officers in Middlebury will tell the Free Press booze statis- facts, or shows up Middlebury Col lege, through the trickery of an inter view that grossly misrepresents its president, in a light that is absolutely laise. It would be a arood plan for the Free Press to get Burlington's family troubles a little nearer settlement be fore tackling other people's. It would be a good plan for the Free Press to continue its crooning oi sweet tnings about beautiful Bur lington or the glories of Vermont's This In Ml CHRISTMAS The country is going wild v,.er Radio. Everybody young and old wants to listen in. Due to extensive ad vertising 'and to universal satisfaction RADAK RADIO RECEIVING SETS are selling fast. Any one can operate them. The country wide advertising of National Radio Week December 23 to 30 will increase the already unprecedented demand. Responsible dealers are wanted in every city and town. If there is no RADAK Dealer in your town, don't delay. Ask about our liberal proposition. True & Blanchard Co., Inc. Newport, Vermont Distributors of Clapp-Eastham Co. Radio Apparatus. "Johnson, Dec. 12. Investigations by officials into the alleged rumors that rum was running wild through out Lamoille county discloses the fact that there have been more prosecu tions with more results than in any territory of a similar population in the United States. "In the little town of Hyde Park Justice Collins has collected $3,500 in liquor fines alone and in Johnson, Bradley Thomas has collected $1,700. This is in addition to a number of automobiles which have been seized and sold to 'the advantage of the government. "In refutation of some allegations which have been made to the detri ment of the officials of Lamoille county it was learned by a News representative that there are six routes by which rum runners can go through 'the county. It was also learned that in Morrisville, the larg est town in the county, there is not a single ponce olhcial living within a radius of two miles of the main street. All there is in the entire county to work with in enforcing the law is a few deputy sheriffs which are scattered over a sparsely popu lated country and yet the fines col lected during the past twelve months amount to nearly $10,000. Ihe routes through Lamoille county have become unpopular with rum runners of late because of some hard blows which have been dealt the traffic. With the arrest of the notor ious "Tessier" and others who not only smuggled rum, but Chinamen or anything in which there was a big profit, others have evidently been dis couraged. The Waburton Case "Officials of the county say that they do not intend to tell people where they are going until they get there and this was the case in the show that Waburton, who operates I. M. Waburton affair. The records several dance pavilions in both Washington and Lamoille counties, has been under the eyes of the prose cuting officers to the extent that his place has been raided five times at all houi's of the day and night. No evi dence was gained through these efforts. One day when Waburton could not be located, State's Attorney W. E. Tracy succeeded in finding him through some devious routes and Waburton went into Tracy's office and Tracy told him that he was going to get him for operating a still. " 'I want you to bring this still into my office and do it now or tell me where it is and I will get it,' said State's Atotrney Tracy. The reply of Waburton was 'That still is in the hands of a friend of mine and I will hang by my thumbs until I die before I will betray a friend, but if you stay where you are I will go and get it,' said Waburton. It wasn't long afterwards before the man who has been charged with operating many stills returned with the apparatus. As a result he pleaded guilty to a liquor charge and is paying $25 per' month to the state in settlement of a $300 fine. Many Seizures "Up in a little room over Judge I racy s office are more than a dozen stills which have been seized during the last twelve months and some of them have a big capacity. These were located by the officers in lone farm houses. The records show that State's Attorney Tracy put in 104 days on the business of the state and he receives $800 per year for it. The deputies receive pay only for the actual duty which they perform and at a small, wage they have partici pated in many a midnight raid dur ing the last twelve months." S7 Never attempt to relieve your baby with a, remedy that you would use for yourself. TH CENTAUR COMPANY. NEW YORK CITY. one would dare vouch that all the I Do Not Destroy Confidence in Our rum gets over our southern border before it leaks out to be lapped up by those still possessed of strong appetites and iron clad interiors, However, it- does not seem possible that the charges of wholesale" boot legging and manufacture of liquor so powerful that T. N. T. is as distilled water to it can be substantiated; cer tainly not with evidence prompted by suspicion that every bulging pocket contains a oow-choking, bcoze-buying bank roll or by microscoping every new two-dollar bill offered in circulation. That the youth cf our educational Officers The P.urlir.pten Daily News says: The surest way to hinder law enforcement is to destroy confidence in the enforcing efficers. Law and order, are not encouraged by attack ing our polite or state officials. 7 Nor is the cause of law and order furthered by appealing to every citi zen to arrest those whom he might think was offending against the PJpJf' hibition law. What kind of a place would the City cf Eurlington be with our confidence in the police destroyed and our citizens converted into rum hounds? When citizens begin to act institutions are being dragged down j as police officers, law and order ends to eternal damnation in the mirlst of ! and mob rule begins. Vermont s cesspool is proven. There The state's attorney of Addison county, Mr. Stone, makes complete and emphatic denial of the lack of law enforcement in that county. The Free Press evidently just missed a libel suit by qualifying a certain statement and printing his letter very conspicuously on its first page. As the Rutland Herald and other papers and county offi cials and all good citizens say, "PRINT THE FACTS," not sensational and untruthful generalities. We have been to considerable trouble to try and sub stantiate by the business men of Morrisville the statement that "liquor was being sold at two if not three places in Morrisville a.nd liquor could be smelled on more breaths than ever before." Every one denies having made any such statement. Evidently there is no more foundation for that state ment than the words put into the mouth of President Paul D. Moody of Middlebury College or that State's Attorney Stone was made to say both absolutely false. People of Morristown and Lamoille county are justly indignant at the lurid mis-statements made by the Free Press special investigator. As State's Attorney Stone says, "conditions here are little different than in other par's of the State," and what he says applies equally well in this county and to its officials: "Probably one of the purposes of , Ift as a prosecuting officer I have such articles as are appearing under f ,, ghort , conception of glaring headlines m your newspaper d , am an8wera,e to thPe bHc from time to time, is to arouse the thefor D possibyi to lak of public. Perhaps another purpose is . publication of . y shortcomings, to increase circulation. Both i pur- fter ervj two th nt' poses are laudable, when proper , incumbent wKas the candidate of both r ?w p 'ff- rr!Pol't'cal parties, nominated and honed that vour pflYirts nrove bene-, . . '. re- apparent i opposition of any sort on the part of I cently re-elected without ficial both to the cause of temper- aiife an- iu your suijsli milium iibI"'.!,. ,.. .u- r i... rp. , . j . ., the voters of the county. I have no The unexplained failure of your rep-..., k;f. , ' u f resentative to keep an appointment, Whi, , fc ,d ffi , haH which he requested, for an interview . .f , . J . . ' , Sunday afternoon, makes me wonder, 1 "nnu:e Jr ? however, if the Free Press is trying mv MBwini, hnwvr HiioH to present the real truth to its read- .... . . . . . . ers or is simply indulging in an orgy th Free of sensationalism. I (Signed) "GEORGE W. STONE." is not a suspicion of doubt. Why, unbeliever, didn't a U. V. M. student get arrested recently for being drunk and doesn't that substantiate the charge ? No, we ae still open to conviction through th medium of an investi gation, that 900 percent more resi dents of Addison county should be in jail for law infraction than four years ago, that the population of Vermont in toto is little more than a bunch of virtueless carcasses inflated from silo sucking and that our rosy cheeked children are in danger of being kept home from school to stir mush while mother bottles and corks with baby on her arm. R. L. J. "in the Randolph Herald and News. VERMONT STATE NEWS The new school building of Lyndon Institute, costing over $200,000, will be dedicated Dec. 21. The old build ing was destroyed by fire about a year ago. Almost 800 autos were registered the first day last week when the 1923 numbers were given out, from 100 to 828, by the secretary of state aut department. Arthur St. Armour of Milton, in trying to drive under the church shed there one night last week, did not I duck Jiis head low enough and was seriously injured. FACTS, PLEASE? The Free Press, stung with the disclosures of Volstead leakage in its own city, now concludes that the H. E. Byron, 77, next to the oldest employee of the Scale Works at St. Johnsbury, died recently at a hospital. The Vermont Milk Chocolate Com nanv of Burlincton is resistinc bank- whole of Vermont is likewise. It says ; ruptcy proceedings, which it alleges were started by malice. Mrs. James Collier of Greensboro took a teaspoonful of cedar oil by mistake the other night, but the prompt aid of a physician saved her life. St. Johnsbury is seriously consideJfA, ing hiring a manager of its town business. the state is submerged in a sea of hooch, "one of the wettest spots be tween Cape Cod and the Golden Gate." The following is from yester day's issue: 1 "The highest peaks of the Green Mountains, where there are none or few human habitations, might stick up as arid inlands lapped by an ever rising tide of moonshine, high wines, home brew, whiskey, brandy, gin, silo sip, sap beer and cider with a kick capable of making a Kentucky mule drop his ears with shame." This, of course, is persiflage, but when the contemporary goes on and says that not only the University of Vermont, but Middlebury College and other educational institutions are also ; St. Albans stores have been robbed submerged beneath this deluge of j repeatedly the past week, evidently bootleg, we beg to demur. What are by local sneak thieves. the iacts ! XNames, dates, places ana The Salisbury Bros. Furniture Co. of Randolph has increased its capital stock from $50,000 to $110,000. It is doing a big and increasing business mainly for export to South Africa, etc. circumstances ? Has the Free Press got any, or is the Old Lady just scolding? Then comes Addison county, of which the contemporary says: "The section, responsible citizens say, is now helnless' in the grasp of the Addison county political ring, i alias the Addison county booze ring, i organized and conducted for purposes H B Pavne. a rji-ominent BridDort of plunder, the protection of rum-v armeI.f was s0 Beriously injured uiMieiB omu yie Cam.um.s ui w.c wnjle pl0Wjg wnen n,s pl0W struck Putney will hold no more Chautau quas, having decided that the money can be better spent in other ways. ' The house of Mrs. Mary Storey of Hardwick was recently destroyed by fire. The fire alarm system did not work and the firemen did not reach the fire until too late. a rock, died last week at a Burling ton hospital, aged 52. Oklahoma, jealous of Hollywood, now announces a 13-year-old girl preacher. We are improving. marvelous football team, and leave wild tales about Addison county and Middlebury College alone, until ready to substantiate claims of a political ring existent in Addison county and the menacing work of bootleggers among the students of Middlebury College. Middlebury Register. J. BARLEYCORN'S KINGDOM Why not build an ark, brethren of J me ttumngion uauy r ree tress, take a couple of lily white temper ance doves with you and set forth to find the Ararat of Vermont T From the horrifying exposures in the Free Press last week we of O ranee county, even though wet as a sponge, can still raise our reeking hands to heaven and with parched tongues murmur a prayer of thanks that the Green Mountains protect us from the tides of amber booze that inundate Addison and Lamoille counties. Can it be that Vermont, so long considered relatively free from the degration and crime of the metrpoo lis, has suddenly suffered a stroke of virtue paralysis that has left it a sunken plateau en route to the abode of the imperial tempter. And it re mained for snooping, breath-sniffing, mush hunters, delegated by the larg est daily in the state, to uncover this terrible truth. To be sure the territory of this state is less fortunately situated for prohibition enforcement than is that of many others, bordered as it is on the north by a country where liquor is yet permitted to gurgle forth. Nor does anyone deny that rum running is practised through the state and no strone arm of non-enforcement of law around bootleggers." This, of course, is mere assertion. It may be true. Such things have happened in Vermont under the state prohibitory law. but no amendment of conditions was secured under any sort 01 administration witnout tne Tt mav be true that the lone- skirt production of facts. Where are they, ua, ar,.;..-,!. hut in manv instaneps it Ancient Crone? Produce them. is stm waiting to be announced. Scold! Where is your authority for ; such a reckless and sweeping state-' "?eJi.? . i . . ' I LEGAL NOTICE nt?n ine free rieaa icicbcuw- t ive was in Rutland, kind friends j estate of mart cady morgan. offered to cite him to the facts in the !,, ..,-: case, buy him some evidence, show, S him Some hooch foundries in active The Honorable Probate Court for the operation, but he demurred. He was'trirt aforesaid: T not looking for facts, apparently; all :ofT"M 7". of" jJSTta he wanted was a vocabulary. Hence jgaiu. district, deceased, whatever he may have to say about . , greeting: j -f mn'll V.i UaaaA ' WHEREAS, said court has assigned th this city and county will be based ,.,nd dRy of JanuBry ,xt for minin. ,n4 on hearsay, Without a Single fact to ; allowing the account of the executor of the back it Up. Discount Such assertions tate of said deceased, and for a Atxrm i iinwlj lof the residue of said estate to the lawful When they are Uttered. 'claimants of the same, and ordered that pub- ' Meanwhile, the net result Of this ,c notice thereof be given to all persona sort of thing Will be a lot of loose interested in aaid estate by publishing this accusation, not facts, figures and , dayigT Views' JrTcSl". eviaence; mere nareoramea cnauer of irresponsible and senile shrewish ness," to amplify and adapt Glad stone's celebrated diatribe: no better ment of conditions; just bunk. Rut land Herald. Tut it in black and white use printer's ink it will help you to linen. newspaper published at Hyde Park and Morrisville. in said district. THEREFORE, 7"u are hereby notified to appear at the probate office in Hyde Park, in said district, on the day assigned, then and there to contest the allowance cf said account if you see cause, and to establish your right as heirs, legatees and lawful clnimanta to aaid residue. Given under my hand, this tth day of D-cember. 1922. 12-27. NOYES G. WOOD. Judge. M. B.WHITE fx CO, Hyde Park Successors to E. H. Li.Uey. Undertakers and Funeral Directors Telephone 10-3 Day or Night