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RUTLAND DAILY HERALD, MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 17, 1938. 8 The Timid Soul Peregrinations By H. U. civil service has been sacrificed to the political exigencies of the moment? And, to the thoughtless, the contention will seem sound. It will appear that the civil service has not been forgotten in the rush for political jobs.

But only to the thoughtless. The wise ones will remember that all of these new merit system employes were emergency job holders, that they got their appointments without the ancient and-necessary civil service formality of taking examinations. The long-suffering civil service will be loaded down with thousands of merf and women whose only claim to jobs is a political one. Efficiency will be the price the nation must pay for making temporary jobs permanent. n-mo, I CAMT HONSSTt-Y SAY mY 3a-L is osj GROUMD cwdcr repair, so i ll HAve Play f-y.

Tough luck, i 'ao 5VGM FVe5 To HeRe.AMD IT L.OOKGD AS Though MIGHT A HUKJORGO to-day The Rutland Herald Morning Dally. Except Sunday. Established a Weekly in 1794. Dally Since 1861 Entered at tbe postoffice in Rutland. Vermont, as second class Mall Matter.

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HERALD TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Business Department 538 Editorial Rooms 536 or 537 MONPAY, OCTOBER 17, 1938. FROM ARTICLE XVI11 OP THE VERMONT BILL OF RIGHTS. (Adopted July. 1777.) That frequent recurrence to fundamental principles, and firm adherence to Justice moderation, temperance, industry. and frugality, are absolutely necessary to preserve the blessings of liberty and keep government free.

Remarks on the Proposed Saving of the Rutland Railroad. Oh. we will save the Rutland, The shippers of our state: We will not see our best land Go sadly out of date. These shippers held a meeting And talked both loud and long, About the Rutland beating And why it had gone wrong. We'll save our transportation And start right in today.

Thus first in all the nation Was born the R. C. T. A. Our group begins to function All up the Rutland line From Falls to Mooers Junction Like drafts of sparkling wine.

The traffic now is coming From East, and West, and South; The rails will soon be hura-. ming, You hear in every mouth. We make this declaration: Vermonters cant be beat: For soon well show the nation The Rutland's on its feet. LEON S. GAY.

Rutland, Oct. 13th, 1938. pects to pay the additional taxes on his plant, house and whatever else he owns when and if the head tax, poll tax and other universal taxes are abated. Like a lot of others who may vote for Fred, including Neighbor Frank Duffy, they probably figure (1) that Fred wont be elected anyway, (2) if he is they'll wangle the money from Washington. That however can't be done in case of social Security taxes.

A good many observers have noted the sparcity of trailers in the state this summer and conclude. that they are going out The odd thing about it is that trailers, while almost ideal for camping in rural areas are becoming more and more concentrated in resort towns south and west where they make up little communities of their own, with bridge parties, dances, athletic games (but not so many) available for the trailerites; also assorted community gossip fests and side window neighboring, not to mention fishing, golf of a mild and inoffensive type and most of the small-town advantages without many of its responsibilities. The odd thing about it and this is decidedly Nemesis is that sooner or later, directly or indirectly. Old Man Taxes catches up with them. But they may keep moving for a little while longer, provided the gas holds out and tires stand up under what turns out to be pretty severe punishment.

Hemlock correspondent Lillian Stickney was all hopped up last week because an Irish newspaper, Londonderry Sentinel (almost wrote that Sifter in memory of our own Editor Shanks) not only reprinted her poem Londonderry Tale but sent her a roll newspapers and a book. Then a concatenation of local poets, most of them well-known to this column, gathered and formed a poetry group. In addition to Miss Stickney, Nellie S. Richardson, Jesse M. Dowlin and Frances Stockwell Lovell were among those present and were elected to office.

Next meeting at High Meadow farm in Rockingham. Neatest thing said about the engagement of Lippy Durocher to manage the Brooklyn Dodgers, thus blasting Babe Ruth's hopes, is that if Leo hadnt got the job the Dodgers would have had to get another shortstop. You can always get a coach but where in these days of mil-lion-dollar league series can you get a first-class shortstop? About Handling Liquor. Some rather sobering reflections are suggested by the outcome of the Carl ODonnell case in St Albans. After pleading guilty to the killing of Wellington Churchill, father of four children, following a drinking party, ODonnells counsel made a very brief plea for clemency.

He referred to the killers youth he is only 21 years old and asked the court to consider how this unfortunate youth could be adjusted to be of value to himself and to society. The young man, said the lawyer made the mistake of thinking he could handle liquor, What he did while intoxicated, he urged, doesnt rhyme with what we know about him. It anight be noted in this con-nection that the boy testified that he did not realize what he had done until he saw his knife sticking out of the dead man's back. The court was very gentle with the prisoner although a sentence of from 12 to 20 years in state prison and a fine of $500 was imposed. He might, with good conduct, the court noted, reduce this sentence but intoxication, he further reminded the young man, is no excuse for snuffing out a mans life and leaving four children fatherless.

These are very important words, especially in these days when drinking is regarded with so much tolerance. Innate in a good many other young men and women are the possibilities of serious misconduct, perhaps of irretrievable crime, when they allow liquor to steal away their judgment, impair their brains and destroy their moral balance. Many persons will admit, if they would tell the truth, that only by the grace of God, to quote the old, pious phrase, have they been delivered from doing something as awful as did Carl ODonnelL Intoxicating liquor is a very dangerous social companion and, as the young killer's friend and lawyer suggests, there may be a good many other people who cannot handle liquor. Author Gay is also president of the Rutland Co-operating Traffic association so he probably knows what he is talking about. His verse is not quite so rich, racy and literary as Morris Bishops but after all we folks this way do not regard the plight of the Rutland as a humorous, literary idea, so we can get along with a little less smartness and plenty of old-fashioned taking hold of public issue and doing something about it Luther Johnsons Chelsea correspondent (we suspect it's somebody connected with the law) comments on the epidemic of various disunwellness that overtakes various gentlemen of the road when required to cut up fallen trees in return for their board and room at the county bastile.

Two of the countys free boarders developed strange and almost fatal illness when ordered to the woods. Lame backs, lame legs, lame arms were pleaded and two of the conscripts developed fits of an appalling kind like those of the celebrated Mr. Sleary in the Kipling poem. One patient responded to the stimulus of cold water dashed in his face but the other held out until the officer produced his stink gun and allowed that would raise even the dead. It raised the hobo and he put in a very sad and painful day a-working.

Tramps are making a detour around Chelsea. Colleague A. B. Limoge lines up his Morrisville Messenger in favor of Fred C. Martin for governor and does a pretty good job at it.

Most of what he says about Fred is true but what the Lamoille county dissenter fails to note or explain is how he ex The Lens Clipped from Other Papers The Chicago crowd laughed' when Louis Stein started eating. They didnt know he was that When Stein finished his 22d hamburger sandwich and two quarts of ice cream, he was the recipient of cheers from onlookers and $40 from his friend, Sam Roth. Stein did it in 25 minutes. Roth had bet him he couldnt do it in two hours. News Behind The News BY PAUL MALLON.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. i time Bernard Baruch ever uttered a word upon leaving the White House was when he came out in the lobby and announced the army is not first class. This was sensational in itself, but what made it more colossal was that Baruch had not even seen the president that day. He dined at the White House the night before, then went away, came back to the office next morning, saw White House Publicist Steve Early, then managed to let news-men bump into him and wring the confession from his reluctant lips.

Any doubts about what had happened inside were dispelled when Baruchs lamentation was confirmed by the president at a press conference a few hours later. Newsmen near at hand recognized it as a Gallagher and Sheehan act between positively Mr. President and absolutely Mr. Baruch. Purpose, they say, was to impress Congress with necessity of increasing the war department budget next year.

Crisis-commenting congressmen have been promising the navy everything, the war department nothing. Two army faults are sincerely worrying the top men. One was hinted by the president. He complained about insufficiency of plans for mass production of our latest scientific war implements. Wars will henceforth be fought with equipment rather than soldiers.

Instruments will be more important than masses of men. His advisers found that out when they got down to practical steps in the last crisis. They learned that what Britain and France needed (as well as the U. were the instruments our secret bombing sights, our swifter plane patents, our machine guns, our anti aircraft weapons. All needed these in quantities and right away.

The war might have been over before fresh troops could have been trained and dispatched overseas. Certainly London and Paris could have been destroyed. You may confidently expect the next budget will carry a tremendous increase in the $2,000,000 yearly appropriation with which assistant war secretary, Louis Johnson, has been playing around, in an endeavor to get factories lined up by sample orders to fill war requirements swiftly. Second worry (not mentioned) was the deficiency in anti-aircraft guns. Congress has been going on the assumption that our shores are relatively safe from air attack, and so they are.

No bomber yet devised could cross the seas with a full load of bombs and return, although a suicide attack without a return is possible. So id a cfcser-based or bat-tleshiplaunched plane attack. New York and San Francisco authorities have been complaining they are practically defenseless and this is true too. Army now is constructing a little more than 300 new anti-aircraft guns secretly in government arsenals, but this is obviously not enough for the entire coastline. Production was held back for months to make latest improvements, but when finished, these guns will be better than any.

They will shoot accurately to feet, and when bombers start shedding higher than this, they may hit Ohio while aiming for New York. Increased appropriations to remedy this defect also will be provided. Rumors have been straying into print suggesting the navy building program is an inside mess. Unsubstantial basis is the navy is far behind on destroyers and has found too much vibration in one of the new aircraft carriers on two or three trial runs. Trouble was the navy and the shipyards were not adequately prepared for such a building program as the government laid down.

They are now. From January to October, these following new ships were set upon the waves: Six light cruisers, six destroyers, six subs, one aircraft carrier. Coming along are six battleships (two under construction), two aircraft carriers building, one heavy cruiser building, six light cruisers building, two more in blueprints; 16 subs buikjing, two more in blue- prints; 39 destroyers building, 16 more coming later. What has not been rumored is the fact that we are six months ahead of the program on submarines. While labor trouble in three private shipyards caused some concern for a time, no appreaiable effect on program completion was noticeable.

(World Copyright, 1938. by King Features Syndicate, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction In full or in part strictly prohibited.) it wf, Defense Plans Revised. The burst of nazi fury that hailed the suggestion of Barney Baruch that not only are our national defenses insufficient for defending our own 1 country but that they must be organized with a view to what may happen when the fascist states begin their long-expected drive in South America should have no effect on President Roosevelts proposal to reconsider the whole question of na- tional defense in view of the recent realistic happenings in Europe.

The president is no amateur in matters of national defense although he might naturally a leaning toward a big navy rather than a bigger army; neither is Mr. Baruch by any means unfamiliar with the ject He was chairman of the war industries board and no amount of nazi abuse will change the estimation in which his abilities and great services ar held. On two counts, therefore, Baruch is reasonably classed as an expert and his presumptions aboutf South America may have just as broad a basis as his fears for national defense. The classic Monroe Doctrine is not only a factor to be considered but also the presidents good neighbor" policy which, with the exception of nationalistic Mexico, seems to be going strong. Both of these doctrines and their status quo would be threatened if fascism should cross the Atlantic and appear in South America.

To be sure, some of the so-called republics of South America are pretty nearly dictatorships in their actual working out They take string men and parliaments not too insistent on democracy to keep a nation like Brazil, for instance, independent of outside influences and subversive tendencies. In fact, the success of nations like Germany, Italy and Japan, while achieved at terrific cost to the people, have not failed to make an impression in states and nations where the resources are great and the government not too strong. Added to all that, the totalitarian nations of the world are full of hungry people and they may be looking with longing eyes on South America where almost everything needed for national development is available except, as they see it, the right kind of government It is most unlikely that any of these nations would venture for the present to attempt any overt drive in nations south of the Rio Grande but there have been many efforts, clumsy and ineffective perhaps, to penetrate these countries with fascist propaganda and there will be many more, perhaps more intelligently directed and of a more insidious character. Our problem of defense therefore not only consists of defending our own thousands of leagues of coast line and our defenseless inland cities but also to be prepared with a navy, army and air force sufficiently strong and mobile, and prepared to be in readiness to play the good neighbor elsewhere. This does not for a moment concede that the internal say of Uruguay, are necessarily any of our business, but it must be recognized that the establishment of a fascist state in South America would be a matter of the utmust concern to us and something that necessarily and realistically enters into any plans of national defense that may come be' lore the new Congress.

mont should be sure how effective the results will be before submitting to such sacrifice. Some believe local dikes and control branches of the lower part of the river would help the Massachusetts and Connecticut cities more than flood control works on the upper branches of the river. So this practical side should be taken into account as well as the theoretical issue involved. It seems a tragic thing that after long months of labor by public-spirited men in all six New England states in arriving at compacts which were unprecedented as an example of inter-state co-operation and which were fully approved at that time by army engineers, the whole thing should be overturned by the federal government in favor of complete federal control over power resources, which is contrary to all the established policies of our country. The first of the projects slated to be started is the Union Village reservoir, which is said to be one of the group suggested which would cause least damage to the surrounding country.

This is of course a clever move, for this project could probably be put through with not too much opposition. And then the precedent would be established. Every resident of Vermont should back the governor in the splendid fight he is waging against the usurpation of the rights of our state. It is an issue far bigger than the sacrifice Vermont would make, for the action taken here will constitute a precedent for the entire nation in flood protection, control of power resources, and in the general question of federal domination over the state governments. Theres nothing so effective as a good example in teaching football, opined Coach Walter Henry.

He lined up his Colfax, High school gridsters to show them how to evade tackier, The first boy to charge the coach brought him down with a broken leg. Magistrate Donald P. Roman of Baltimore No doesnt believe its bad Difference. luck 40 PstPone a wedding. Charles Eberwein was haled before him charged with reckless driving and driving while intoxicated.

I was going to be married Sunday, Eberwein explained. Celebrating early? asked the magistrate. Eberwein nodded. Thirty days in jail, said the magistrate. JOHN McGRATH.

(Burlington Suburban List.) Probably no one knows John McGrath better than Leon Latham. They have been together in the Milton Cooperative Creamery for many years. Leon has come to know John in an intimate way. He has been able to look under his skin and see his mind at work. Mr.

McGrath is the democratic nominee for United States Senator and Leon Latham comes out in his support. His words to that effect were printed in his column in this paper last week and they were well said. Leon might have even stated more and not departed from the truth. John McGrath has been a power in the milk business in New England for many years. As a farmer, creamery manager and president and director of a distributing and retail milk system in Boston, his first interest has always been with the producer.

Years ago he did not quite agree with a certain organization set-up for New England as he felt it was not for the interest of the producers in the Milton milk shed. He used no underhanded methods in opposing the Milton Creamery entering such a marketing agency. He fought in the open and held the respect of those who differed with him in policy. Above all John McGrath has the entire confidence of the farmers in this part of Vermont His whole record is one of action in the interest of agriculture but more particularly of the milk industry. John McGrath is going to receive a splendid vote for United States senator in this part of the state.

This support is coming from voters without regard to party affiliation. Many republicans are going to give him a complimentary vote but they will vote the rest of the republican ticket. A man like this who has done so much for the milk industry in this part of Vermont deserves a large vote. There should not be a ballot in Milton or Georgia cast against him. Style and Totem Poles Present-day modes of dress, and make-up tend to emulate the bar baric.

The totem poles of Alaska -and some points south may have suggested some of these effects. Totems however meant something very signifi cant to their proud possessors. Carved in crude but striking contours and painted for contrast they summarized the deeds, descents and claims to importance of their owners and authors. Take a streamlined woman of today who happens to run a bit to the totem pole tradition. Slender would be a flattering term for her outlines silhouette if you insist.

She attenuates them by lifting her hair on top of her head and placing on it a pill-box hat Both the head and hair are slightly sun-bleached so she accentuates them by a vivid make-up that suggests an advanced case of intermittent fever. Tinted nails and hair-lined eyebrows call further attention to the personal attenuation of the lady of the totem pole complex. Between head and feet she wears a silhouette suit whose principal of fice, outside of masking her-rib lines, is to cover and emphasize a figure that fasting diets and much foolishness have reduced to a rack of bones. And her feet! Even art cannot conceal the fact that nature originally intended her to haVe good urerstandings, so she once more points out her unbalanced equilibrium by mounting this long drink of lemon tea on a pair of four-inch heels. This must have made her at least 6 feet tall and not quite so well-proportioned as some of the figures on the totem pole.

If women wish to resemble totem poles why dont they go Siwash and be done with it? They couldnt look much worse than they do when attired as above described. In fact, there are many Indian squaws who when arrayed in all their bravery look more like women and less like totem poles than their white cousins. When a San Diego, citizen phoned the Will Find health department that live frogs were suddenly appearing in his' wash basin, thus hampering his morning shave, the department was skeptical. It sent Inspector F. P.

Par-vinn to investigate. Parvinn returned with a live frog. I caught him as he stuck a leg out of the drain, he repotted. Investigation showed that several frogs had entered the bathroom through the drain pipe. Vermonter oj the Week BY VINCENT P.

WILBER. CLARA E. SIPPRELL Artist Photographer. The bones of a certain pioneering Frenchman named Daguerre without question rattle in ecstasy every time Clara Sipprell develops a negative. A 1 though it is too early now to judge, the matronly Manchester lady with the penetrating eyes may someday occupy a throne in the hearts of the knights of the lens, comparable to that now graced by Raphael for those of the brush.

Certainly she has at least one of the prerequisites of immortality an enthusiasm for her work which borders on fanaticism. The prefix artist which she so insistently places to the term photographer" gives a hint of the gulf, which separates her from the "watch the birdie fraternity, definitely and finally. The question of whether or not Clara Sipprell is a bona fide Vermonter bothered us only until we entered her little white studio cottage and began to thumb through the albums. After that experience it would take a quibbler indeed not to grant he? the title she herself requests, Adopted. In view of the many years during which she has been cepming to the state to work, first at Thetford and then at Manchester, the point isnt taking much of a stretching.

After looking at almost a score of her camera portraits, with their characteristically soft focus and haunting resemblance to a set of rare old etchings, we sat across the fireplace from La Sipprell while she tried to explain what she was trying to do and what her work means to her. We emerged, somewhat limp, a little later with the impression that photography is about all there is in the orld that matters as far as this particular practitioner is concerned. Its not only her vocation, its her avocation too, and she cant even talk about it without sounding more than a little awe-struck. Strange thing is that the whole business started prosaically enough in her brothers commercial studio at Buffalo, 30 years ago. After learning the rudiments like any apprentice in a trade, Clara inveigled herself into participating in an exhibit at a Buffalo photographic club which was supposed to be strictly for men.

And walked off with half the prizes. From then on she succeeded as only a success can succeed, until she was, (in her own words) a big toad in a little puddle which was Buffalo. Clara Sipprell next packed up her cameras and her ideas about a great new art form, and took them to New SAVING THE RUTLAND. (Mlddlebury Register.) The story of the drive to save the Rutland railroad, as it was told at the ft. Chamber of Commerce meeting last Friday was an inspiring one.

The cooperating traffic association is keeping public opinion alive to the danger which still threatens the railroad and to the issue of unfair taxation as between railroad and trucks and buses. More important still, it has loaned to the railroad in Mr. Boham a traffic manager who has already done wonders in bringing freight business back to the Rutland and in improving the railroad's standard of service. Every businessman and every farmer in this valley has a stake in the railroad's future and ought to bring their active support to the association which is saving the day. 100 Years Ago OUR NEW MOTTO.

The editor of the Vermont Watchman, after very politely mentioning the improvement in our paper, asks in what part of Mr. Jeffersons writings we found our motto, and says it was Daniel Webster, instead of Thomas Jefferson, who uttered the patriotic sentiment. We very respectfully request the editor of the Watchman to take another look at the subject and are happy in being able to point him to the author of the sentiment, Thomas Jefferson. On the day of his death, which Gen. Walton will recollect was the 4th of July, Mr.

Jefferson was called on for a toast, and gave Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever. Dafiiel Webster has uttered the sentiment, but only as an echo from the lips of Jefferson. FIGHT UNTIL THE LAST. (Bellows Falls Times.) The struggle between the New England states and the federal government over the method of developing flood control protection in the Connecticut valley has been reopened with the announcement that work would begin soon on the first project, the Union river dam. Gov.

Aiken and Gov. -Murphy of New Hampshire are leading the fight to preserve state's rights. Gov. Aiken has constantly reiterated that Vermont, which would suffer by far the most of any of the states in the proposed flood control program, is willing to sacrifice a great deal to provide safety for the residents of the cities in the lower Connecticut valley. But she is not willing to give up all her resources to the federal government.

Moreover, engineers are not unanimous in agreement as to how much good these tremendous reservoirs would do the cities in the lower valleys. Each of the three recent floods has been completely different in type. Some of the projects suggested would flood enormous areas, ruin many fine farms and spoil a large share of our precious recreational resources. Ver Packing the Service. Advides frtm Washington indicate that the New Deal has all its plans to confound its enemies who claim that the civil service has suf fered under an administration in which emergency jobs have added thousands to the government payroll.

According to the civil service commission 81,000 of these emergency jobs will soon be given a merit system rating and 44,000 others are being considered for a like change. This move is calculated to take the sting from republican cries that under the New DeaK political preferment instead of ability has been the guiding force in building up an army ol government hangers-cm. The New Deal will be able to say to its defamers: Look, we have increased the civil service corps by 125,000 persons. What now of your charges that the One of the best arguments against diverting any part of so-called automobile funds to purposes other than the construction of highways is that in the end it simply means that certain public projects are being financed wijth taxes collected from the motorists only, a decidedly obnoxious and unfair type of class taxation. ITS NONE TOO SOON.

(New York World-Telegram.) A new mathematical definition, just reported to scientists meeting at Cambridge, is said to make it possible to predict what will happen in states of complete chaos and thus, for the first time, to bring utter confusion under mans control. We dont understand it but boy, oh boy, considering the state for which the world seems to be headed, were certainly glad to know that definition is ready! TRADE DISLOCATION S. (New Orleans Tlmes-Plcayune.) Germanys forced barter trade tactics have left one Balkan country with ten years supply of aspirin on its hands, and another with huge quantities of mouth organs. A simple exchange of pain and sedative might restore the equilibrium. CLASS IN SCULPTURE.

(Boston Olobe.) Theyre using a new verb, to Hit-lc, which means to whittle in large chunks. Czechoslovakia is wondering whether her new borders will be correctly described as finely chiseled. EVIDENCE. (Nashville Tennessean.) Of course, crime does not pay but we notice the approved way' of going after crooks is through their income tax returns..