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burlington. Vermont BURLINGTON, VERMONT, MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1923. WTATHEU FORECAST! CLOUDY AXD COOL PRICE THREE CENTS. Aaron H. Grout of Newport Appointed 0 II VARSAW RUSSIANS Says Only a Revival 'Religion Can Straighten Out 'European Tangle COSiaCE AT La'SAiETO BE ROYAL WEDDING at reiira We become extravagant, careless, and selfish during good times.

We then forget God and have confidence in our own strength; we seek profits rather than service, and are interested in consuming rather than producing. "Our experiences of the past 'two years show clearly that the industrial problem cannot be solved through legislation. The same thing applies to financial, social and all other ills. There is no short cut solution to any of these problems. The solution will come only through the growth of religion in influence and power.

We must rescue the Nation from the unscrupulous politician, the selfish promoter and the shortsighted employer and wage worker." PROVIDETXOE, H. April 22. "Only I a revival of religion in Europe and America can make good times continue and straighten out the European declared Roger W. Babson In i an address at the Calvary Baptist Church here today. "Business today is at the parting of the ways.

Crops are pood, wages are I fair and money is plentiful. Every one i willing to work is employed, the rail- roads have more than they can haul and the demand for goods Is excellent. Tet many able men are fearful of a panic or another collapse. AVhat la the' reason for this fear? This fear is due to the knowledge that a great ma of people have the wrong philosophy today. Prof.

Bliss Perry Advocates i Consumers' Strike Against I Them Says They Are Only! "Psychopathic Cases" i i URGES WAR OH UNCLEAN BOOKS vy kjuv. xruuiur publicr officials to the State for many years. His father, Josiah Grout, was governor from 1S96 to 1898, and his uncle, the late General William W. Grout of Barton was representative to Congress from the Third District from 1881 to 1SS3 and from 1854 to 1901. He was city attorney of Newport in 1922 and is now in law partnership with his father.

He is a graduate of the University of Vermont. ANCES FOB 96 HOURS Lt Last Accounts Elsie Weber and William T. Farrell Were Well on the Way to 100-Hour Mark and Going Strong WASHINGTON. April 22. Elsie Weber and William T.

Farrell, both of Baltimore, who passed the world endurance dancing record at 6:30 o'clock to-night were still eoing at midnight after 96 hours of shuffling with the avowed intention not to stop until they had hung up a mark of 100 hours or more. Miss Weber, Farrell and three others warned by police they could not continue their exhibition here on Sunday, danced their way late last night in a truck to Marlboro, Maryland. There an Orchestra was waiting and on a regulation floor they went on with the dance. The three men still in the competition to-night with Farrell and Miss Weber were 35 hours behind them, having: entered the contest Friday noon. Reports from Marlboro indicated that none of the dancers was ready to drop out of the race at least not for some hours.

About a week ego Miss dancing in a Baltimore contest, established a world record at 52 hours a mark that stood for-a day or so. SOUTHERN NEGRO FARMERS MOVE NORTH WASHINGTON, April general movement of southern negro farmers to Northern industrial centers where high wages are obtainable. Is indicated in a speeial survey of farming districts in the South made by the department of agriculture. Unprofitable cotton growing due to boll weevil conditions and unrest among returned negro troops who experienced more attractive living conditions during and after the war, are cited In the report, made publji today as contributory causes of the migrat ion. BOSTOX.

April 22. A consumers'; LONDON', April 22: A despatch to strike by the American public against the Times from Paris says it has unclean books was advocated tonight -bv i bet learned, on what the eorrespon-, dent believes to be excellent Prof. Buss Perry, head of the depart- yjvvt eiury oiuiv (Special to the Free Press) MOXTPELIER, April 22. Aaron II. Grout of Newport was yesterday appointed Secretary of St te by Governor Proctor to succeed the late Harry F.

Black. He is expected to arrive here tomorrow to assume his duties. Mr. Grout, who represented Xewport City in the last Legislature, comes from a family which has furnished prominent TOWNSTHR BY FOREST FIRES 18,000 Acres of Rich Oak and Pine Land in NeAV Jersey i Have Been Eaten Through Church and Homers Destroyed i LAKEWOOD. N.

April 22. Two forests fires, fanned by fierce winds have eaten through-wore than 800) acres of rich oak and pine land, destroyed a church and several homes and arpv threatening villages throughout ocean county, according to reports reaching Lakewood from various parts of the county tonight. Tiie villages of Osbornville and Lau-relton, are threatened with extinction unless rain or the effects of the hundreds of men fighting the fire, are successful in checking its spread, the reports say. The First Methodist Church and several homes and barns at Cedar Bridge have been destroyed. Homes at Chissel, a nearby village are in danger.

Lakewood is directly between both fires, but is in no immediate danger, officials say. Ill-MlV WJIITK J1REAKS HIS LOXG S1LKXCE i Prom the Worcester Telegram) Henry White, former ambassador to Prance' and member of the American d-degation at the Taris Peace Conference, pays the present dangerous situation in Europe would not have arisen if America had joined the League of Nat ions. Th present dangerous situation in Europe Is a direct result cf the terms of the Versailles Treaty. Mr. White helped to make those terms.

League advocates usually say the American delegation would have more moderate terms if lt had had its way. Some day these terms will have to be enforced or modified. Mr, White 'should say what he thinks ought to be done instead of talking about the "tragedy" of America's rejection of the League. Mr. White says this is his first discussion of the treaty.

If lie has been asleep three years and suddenly awakened he would talk Just as he is' talking now. F. D. mcnt of English literature at Harvard,) in an address at the annual meeting of the New England "Watch and Ward so- billion and fifty billion gold marks, iciety'in Old South Church. The provided in the settlement of the in-jhe said, should be declared against ter-allied debt of France's Indebt-j "booVts that are not books at all.

but edness is Otherwise, it jonly psychopathic casts in covers." ls asserted. France is disposed to hold Admitting that there were "dirty cor- out for her original figure of ners" In many of the great classics, 000.000,0000 gold marks. jProf. said that the taste and! France believes, according- to the genius of the authors outweighed these; correspondent, that the greatest occasional passages. an instance 'f i indrance to such a settlement arises changing taste and standards he cited, from American sentiment and sterns jthat Fielding's "Tom Jones," a book to tWnk that thlg plan mav imluce People were once ashamed to admit they Britain and the United States read, now appeared In prescribed to consont to some arrangement.

courses at Harvard. I "The only antidote for bad taste and 4 I TlinV "VCTTC bad conduct is everlasting efforts in the k'v 1 MK llistU home and throughout the country for MEAN' CRIPPLED HEARTS taste; for that health of mind andj jbody which makes vice WASHINGTON. April 22. Surgeon-j which rates insane books because it (General dimming tonight took unoffl- loves good books: and which Is bound cial cognizance of the endurance to build out of the wreckage of o'ur dis- ing craze and. in a symposium of opln-j illusiond, nerve-shattered and coward- tons with other, celebrated physicians post-war world thA better civilization here, contestants that their ex-j of the future.

Let us buy into the rising cesses might cause acute dilation of tide of decency. When we buy coal we the heart and sudden death. At best, he 'want coal not shale and black sand." added, the dancers may expect crippled hearts for the remainder of thflr lives, ANNIVERSARY I whUo shattering of thoiv CU TPCOP A iTiTir nen-mis systems will make them easy UJIillluol U.llilj Dili! Jl LEAGUE IS NOT SUPPRESSED TRAFFIC IN OPIUM Chairman Porter of House Foreign Affairs Committee Contradicts Lord Cecil's Statement Declares League Assembly Sanctioned "Legitimate" Sale of Opium At Suggestion of Indian Delegate WASHINGTON. April League of Nations "instead of suppressing- the traffic in habit forming drugs, did quite the contrary," Chairman Porter of the House Foreign Affairs Comm't- i tee, declared in a letter to Lord Robert Cecil, leading British proponent of the league who is now Washington declining an appointment to discuss the activities of the league's opium commission. Mr.

Porter took issue with a statement in an article Signed by Lord Robert that the league had "struck vls-orous blows at world evil like the sal of opium, cocaine and other noxlnu drugs," and enclosed with his letter, which he made public today, copies of his committee's hearings and its report on the resolution adopted in concluding days of the last session of Congress calling for the limitation of production of opium and cocaine leaves to the quantity, "needed only for strictly medicinal and scientific purposes." When a similar resolution wrs 'sub-mitted by the opium comlss an to the, league assembly, be said, the latter submitted the word "legitimate," for the phrase "strictly medicinal and scientific" at the suggestion of th Indian delegate that "the Indian population is throughout vast areas without adquat medical assistance, and therefore habitually takes opium In small doses as a prophylactic or as an effective remedy against diseases." "It is perfectly obvious," Mr. Porter sRld "that the striking out of the specific words "strictly medicinal aid scientific and the subftitutlon In lieu thereof of the general word 'legitimate' was intended to legitimatlxe and thereby continue to encourage the sale of large quantities of this drug without restrictions on its us, which is Megi-mate In the oriental possessions of many European countries and thereby preserve the enormous end Immoral revc. nues which the opium producing countries derive from its production and sale." Kach person consumes about 102 pounds of sugar on the average, during a year. It Is estimated. $7.00 a yard mi HA I PROTEST AGIST Tl 0NT I ftL At the Time the Soviet Press of Moscow Is Filled With a "Confession" of the Former Patriarch Not a Word in His Defense Is Printed Prelate Claims His Act by Direction of His Religious Conscience WARSAW, April 22.

(By the Associated Press) Tho Russian colony here today held a big mass meeting-in protest against the trial of the Most Rev. Dr. Tikhon, former patriarch of all Russia by the Sjviet go" -ornment. MOSCOW, April 22. (By the Associated Press) On the eve of tho commencement on.

Tuesday of the trial of the Most Rev. Pr. Tikhon, former patriarch of all Russia, on a charge of treason and hindering tho carrying out of Soviet orders. the Sovitt press today is filled with a reputed confession of the pr-l'ile. The "confession" indicated that Pr.

Tikhon must have undergone mimor-ous preliminary examinations. Not one word in his defense is 'found in the newspapers. Oa tho contrary the despatches of th oiVci.tl government agency from the provinces tend to show that mce.hf,s of workingtm-n are demanding Tikhon's as a counter-rsvolutionary. So far as the Associated Press is informed, Dr. Tlkhon's defense will be a frank statement that he acted by direction of his own religious conscience ami r-s ready to take the consequences, but that he is sorry if he has been the cause of bloodshed.

Tht British government will be represented at the trial by its commercial attache, Mr. Hodgson, who lia reinjected and received two tickets. The foreign press also will be largely represented. Pr. Tikhon, who until recently had been held under detention in the.

Ton ski monastery near Moscow, was brought last night to one of the central prisons in Moscow. From one of those who riHf been permitted to see the aged prela'e during tho past few weeks, it. has bee i learned that be lias hppnt most of his time in prayer, unperturbed as to hi fate. Hurin; the day he strolled unattended in the garden of the monostery and at night was absorbed In the reading (if religious books in his tiny study. BOBBED HAIR GIRL DEALS OUT DEATH SENTENCES MOSCOW, April 22.

(By the Associated Press) A bobbed-hair, young woman In her early twenties sat as presiding Judge at a trial in the Moscow district court yesterday and in calm voice sentenced seven men to death for robbery witli violence. Siie was Citizenness Anna Giuzman, who several months ago so attracted the attention of the commissariat of justice by Iierishrewed decisions that she was invited to Moscow and became a member of the Presidium of the Moscow district court. TWO RUSSIAN PRELATES SENTENCED TO PRISON RIGA, April 22. (By the Associated Press) Bishop Nifont and Deacon Lepokrov have been convicted by a tribunal in Tsarltsin Russia, of opposition to the sequestration of church treasures, according to advices received here. The bishop was sentenced to seven years' imprison ment and tho deacon to a term off eight years.

$120,000,000 AUSTRIAN LOAN IS APPROVED GENEVA. April 22. (By The Associated Press) The loan to Austria of $120,100 00" was approved toirght by tl-e. council of the League of Nations at a meeting that developed optimi'tc reports on the leagues plm to put that countty on a firm financial footing so that she may be able to balance her budget within two jtari Thtre were C41 Class A tadio telephone broadcasting stations on January 1, 1323. according to the number of licenses issued by the Department of Commerce.

Many "spring co'ds" are merely that slight attack of hay fever caused by pollen from some trees that blossom in the spring, declared a university botany instructor. WINS PRIZE FOR POEM. tt? JEW 14 I 't Miss Roberta Swartz or Brooklyn, N. a sophomore at Mount Holyoke College, received the $100 prize given annually by the Southern Methodist University of Dallas, RESUMED TODAY Some Think United States Is Destined to Play the Leading Re' Before Final Curtain FalLs Owing to the Recent Ratification by Turkey of the Chesicr Concession Which France and England Regard With Questioning Eyes LAI'S ANN April 22. (By The As- I sociated Press) The stage is ail set for a resumption tomorrow of the Near Ka stern peace conference, which was so 'ally ended last Pebruary, I and con fere -ice circles anticipate that' the United States may play the lead- ing roll) before the curtain falis mi the last act, with the final scene either tho signing of a peace compact or the re- newal of war.

In tiie public mind the prospective importance of the Vnited States in the present, conference is ascribed to I Turkish parliament in iis recent ra- tificat ioji of the Chester concession granting extensive rights for the con- I struct ion of. railroads throughout Turkey" -nd the exploitation of mineral properties' in a zone within twenty kilometers on either side of tho pro- jected railway, line. France and Great Britain both are looking at this concession -with questioning eyes, and as economic subjects will form one! of tiie chief issues in the dispute be- tween the Turks and the allies, both these countries may oppose -it here. France contends that tii Chester grant conflicts with the railroad con- cessions received from tho old Otto- man g-ovornment in 1911, oi which i Prance already has advanced ooo Turkish pounds; and Hritain says frankls that if 1 Clies-er miccs- sion of Mo; say it regard Mi'1 luari-iLi'. 'u rrnoi 1 us j.cci.

lints li.es, 1 1 Cfft Britain will this jssion as noiv fa" a.s it aifi'v-N or uuy tar-t other pa rt of th Irak tevntor.v. vv'iicii is under' th. British mandate. The American political attitude, as it is Jiere. til to continue to fm tiaditicr.il "olicy of th- oven door nr.d ''l'P 'i -tuniiy -)! a'l liitioin: an.

I il the American gover nm it tinds "e-aminatin that the Chester coiicfs-srn is It 'Ti' and os no violate the American conception of equal prii' ti) all. tin t' it is pr i in Milled ituarters mat .1 C. firew. the American niin's'i-r to Swlt.eila.id, who will held tho Am- r- loan dii-ui in will this giant In ho it is ollii i itlv prdcsl-t itt tiie i Laii.a in i- con ferencc. i The omstanding feature of the re- sumed -conference is the elimination Soviet P.uof'ia.

The correspomlrnt of the Associated Press learns tliat Moscow di-plomatlcKlly sought an invitation to participate in the conference, but, that tho inviting powers. Great Britain. France and Italy, returned a polite l.egatie. Russia has teen told, it is said, that she was Invited lo the first i oonfrrer-1 to discuss the con- vention nly, hut that she publicly an-; nounced a refusal to sign this treaty. for which all the other countries, In-; eluding the Turks, were in accord: that i if anytimo before tho adjournment of i the conference Russia has changed her; mind the conference hall will always lx open, and tho allies will delighted to see her.

There is no confirmation; here of rfcent report that Georges Tehitcherin, tho Bolshev.k foreign minister, will conuv to Laiisamiii anyway even as an un-i forbidden gues' FREIGHT IS DERAILED Traflle on Central Vermont Tied nt for Three Hour (Spccinl to the Free Press) RANDOLPH. April 22. A southbound freight on the Central Vermont railroad was derailed this morning shortly after 8:30, Just north: of the Randolph station. The engine left the irons and tied up traffic on i the road for about three hours. Just! what caused the derailment is tin- known.

Tho engine was put back on the. rails by the crew of the train and the sectionen at Randolph. MADE U. S. OBEY.

ii 1 Sita 3t y.K :3JnJSMi.a..-jwx.: jk: Ten-year-old arrival from Colombia and Nicko. the monkey whose admission to this country she won by telling, authorities they would have to let him in or she would refuse to enter. ABBEY THURSDAY! Duke of York Will Wed Lady Elizabeth Br.vesLyon Event Will Be One Not Par-j allelcd in Pomp and Ceremony Since the Day 30 Years Ago When King George Led His Bride to the Altar L.OXPON. April 22. (By the Associated Tress) Not since the day 80 years ago when Kins? George V.

as the. Duke of York, led his royal l-ride to the altar has England prepared herself for such a gala wedding fete as will be celebrated on Thursday next, when Prince Albert, York next in succession to the Itritish throne after the Prince of "Wales weds Iady Elizabeth P.owes-Lyon In Westminster Abbey. All plans for the great occasion are completed and it only remains to put the finishing- touches to the scenery for staging this royal pageant, for which the world, thrilled by the romance of the younsr prince's wooing of a subject of his own land, lias been eagerly waiting. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to line the route of the weddintr procession to and from the abbey and In addition to the stands frectetl near Westminster for spectators, every building past which the Iuke and his bride will drive ill be turned into a bannered pavilion for their enthusiastic well-wishers. To handle the enormous assemblage In the streets there will be on duty foot police, 200 mounted men and 3,000 specials.

Traffic along- the route of the royal procession will be suspended for some time before the carriages appear. The ceremony in the abbey will last three quarters of an hour. In the rave cf the abbey POO privileged guests will see the ceremony of a lifetime from tiers of seats specially built and 2000 other seats will be placed in the Cave and transcepts. The wedding will furnish a great occasion for the famous abbey bell rlr.gers. who will play a peal of Sted-man's triples, consisting of some five thousand changes, which was first taught to their predecessors about the year The bridal couple will proceed to Buckingham palace after tho cere-'mony and la' in the afternoon will leave for train for the first stage their honeymoon In Surrey.

Throughout the first part of the week the duke and hi bride will be kept busy preparing for the great events Tomorrow evening there will be a private rehearsal ef the wedding in the abbey. The week will be filled with festivities for It it the ambition of the' London association to provide more miles of free novel entertainments every day than any city in the world ever had before. The decorations In the streets will be unsurpassed. Every hotel and restaurant in the west end Is preparing for festival afternoons end evenings and gala dances will be In order. THE MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK ttt Bnrltnictan.

V. INCOItrOnATED 1S4 Special attention to accounts of Administrators. Executors, Guardians and Trustees. Coupons and other income items carefully looked after. New Maple Sugar and Syrup We are now taking orders for future delivery.

F. Em PERKINS JS So. Prospect Uurllocton Z'honn 115-W. Smoke the Golden Wedding Junior The leading small cigar. The smoker who likes a small cigar of the highest quality is great rtand of the lor.

Sold everywhere 7c, 3 for 20c O. Taylor Inc. Burlington vt. I I I i Tress) London atid Stratford-GERMANY OVERLOOKED iupon-Avon. as well as the entire coun- EFFECTIVE WAR WEAPON try are now engaged in celebrating the anniversary of tii birth of Shakes-I WASHINGTON.

April 22. Germany pears, believed to be April 2.1, and the overlooked one of the most effective tercentanary of the publication of the weapons of modern warfare invented first folio of his plays. land patented in Germany two years Hundreds of Americans are making before the AVorld War began, tthe pilgrimage to Stratford to parti-j a search of the records of tho All the streets of Stratford ere decor- American patent office has disolsed, Uted, and there will be a civic pro-; lt was announced to-dav. bv the in-i cession from Shakespeare's birth place torlor department that the armored to the parish church to place -wreaths tank fjrst uaed in var hv the on his tomb. The festivities in Strat- i atn.

i ABERNETHY HEAD OF CHURCH STREET FRANCE YET ACCEPT DEBT CUT Willing to Reduce Germany's Obligation to Between 40 and 50 Billion Gold Marks on Certain Conditions ll, llin J' idnvn 1 'r agree to a reduction in Germany's debt to somewhere between forty prey to disease. Gunter Durstyn, an Austrian, in February, 1912. The invention was practically a diydicate of the tvpe used later by the British and called for construction to enable it to crawl ovei trenches. IMAKUUiNj; ON LAKE ISLAND RESCUED were being cared for at a hotetl here. CHICAGO.

April 22. (By the Associated Press) Eight men and one woman who had been marooned on South Fox Island in Lake Michigan, John Miller, the pilot of an airplane that went to their rescue and was wrecked in landing and two Chicago newspapermen were taken off the VV T'uyA 11 from nn Abor rail- roa(1 by Thmas L. Wilson, the pack- er, according to wireless messages 'from Manistique, Mich. 1 t-1 a A A ln .1 1. ON WAY TO AMERICA, Lord nirltenhead.

Lord IUgh Chancellor of England during the Lloyd George Ministry, will visit this country at the end of the summer. The noted British statesman is expected to arrive during the latter part of August and will go to Minneapolis to address the convention of. the American Bar Association. 1- CHARMING SUITS III Two and Three Piece Models Priced With Moderation From the trim tailored tweed suit to the elaborate three-piece costume with frock or separate skirt and blouse, our new models maintain an artistic distinction and assure the smartest styles in studied harmony with one's individuality. Fashioned of the newest fabrics in the season's fashionable shades.

Of exceptional charm are the new wool suits showing the stunning accordion plaited skirt with graceful loose box coat and tie sash. These suits are very striking in all the early spring shades including the fashionable Airedale Tan. Very reasonable in price. 1 IV II: RY It 11 A WEATHER-WISE TOPCOAT Is Always a Popular and Serviceable Coat ford will last a month and Shakes- pears's plays vill be performed. GEORGE AND QUEEN WILL" VISIT ITALY i I LONDON.

April dated Press) Tho (By the Asso- visit of King and Queen Mary to Ttaly next month will be the most elaborate affair since the war. The Italians art. planning to outdo any Oprevious efforts at entertaining royalty. This is jsald to be largely due to the iwho wish to contrast the splendor or this visit with the rather cold reception given by the Italian government to the Belgian King and Queen last i year. i The Italian royal train will be sent to the frontier on May 6 to meet King George and his party.

i CARDINAL O'CONNELL SAILS FOR LIVERPOOL! BOSTON, April 22. Announcing that i he was leaving- in quest of "relaxa- tion of mind and body" Cardinal O'Connell sailed for Liverpool today ion the steamer Carmanla, Only by a i sea trip, the Cardinal explained, could i he find complete mental and physical rest. Sailing with Cardinal O'Connell were Monsignor Haberlm, his private sec-. retary and Monsignor Splalne of Rox- bury. His three nieces, the Misses Alice, Anna and Josephine O'Connell of Brookline also were members of the party.

The cardinal will remain a few day in England and will then sail for America. Farmers Have you got help to handle your spring work? the men you are looking for are not listed in the "employment columns," why not insert an ad. describing the kind of a man you want. The cost will be small, and the returns big. Just a little more pep Burlington poets, Morris-ville still carrying away prizes.

The FREE PRESS Classified Service The A-B-C paper with the A-B-C ads. i I 1 There is no coat quite like the tailored topcoat of weather-wise service for ordinary round of spring events. They also have the advantage of moderate price. They are in smooth all wool Tweeds in stripes or checks of contrasting colors, in plain fabrics, including the ever practical navy blue. They may be had with fitted or raglan sleeve, belts, buttons and buckles.

Some are un-lined, others are lined entire or halfway. Light or dark Tan is a smart spring shade for street or motor. One will find a topcoat an all-weather protector for every occasion. We offer very reasonable prices for exceptional selections. JUST RELEASED FROM CUSTOMS An Imported English Coating We have but recently released from customs an imported English Coating called Suede Camels Cloth.

The name hardly describes the richness and luxury of this royal fabric, such as mrght be worn at all outdoor society events. It is of the smoothness and strength of suede with a soft, silky camels hair finish and it looks deep and rich and warm yet is really as light as thistledown. This exquisite material has been sent to us direct from the English manufacturers. A coat of this beautiful importation in ready-to-wear models would doubtless cost 1 00 upward yet it is possible to buy from two to two and a half yards of material and have a coat made at less than one half this cost. In Mount Blanc White with black fur collar one would strike a daringly original style note at little cost.

For Polo coats. Motor Robes and Fashionable wear Suede Camel Cloth is without 54 inches wide a peer..