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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20
THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1916.
TRYING TO STEAL LINCOLN.

The Democrats are still busy trying
to steal Lincoln. 1t has become a hab-
it with them to try to appropriate ev-
cry illustrious Republican, after he is
safely dead and can make no resist
ance. But it is a little surprising
that Attorney General Gregory should
have chosen a jefferson Day dinner
for his larcenous operations. Mr.. Greg
or was the principal speaker for the
New York Democrats ON that occasion.
He had been 50 busy deciding that it
would be Incompatible with the public
interest to comply with request of
congress for information as to wheth-
Standard Oil is again up to its old
catch his train. If he said anything
about the father of the hayward De
mocracy, the press dispatches ignored
it. His speech, according to them
abounded in attacks on Roosevelt and
compliments of Wilson.
IF Abraham Lincoln were living
today he declared, che could no
more be Republican than Theodore
Roosevelt could be a modest man.
We concede that the colonel is not too
modest to defend himself But Lin,
CONS lips are silent. Perhaps he
even would not answer the dispersion il
alive, for he was a patient man, ever
under attacks almost as vituperativo
as Mr.. Gregory S. In fact Mr.. Greg
orv's political heroes found Lincoln {
favorite target. Mr.. Gregory would
have been with them, if he had beer
born earlier, He was born in Ni8sis
sippi eight months after Lincoln was
inaugurated and has been a Mississippi
and Texas Democrat ever since. 1t i
mystery how he can worship Lin
coin and the men who fought ever.
step Lincoln took Either they o
Lincoln must have been wrong.
Lincoln was consistent Wing unit
he became a Republican. He oppose
the theories of jefferson and jackson
He supported protective tariff an
other Republican principles. Nearl
all the men now living who voted TO
Lincoln in 1860 are still loyal Repuf
Iicans. They believe they are walkin
in his steps. Really they ought to b
better qualified to judge of Lincol
. than his hereditary and traditional p'
, litical enemies The Democrats al
=, within their. rights in conjufing u
imaginary Jeffersons and Jackson
but they should not lay impious hand
on the memory of Abraham Lincoln.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20
Advertise New England.

Chamber of Commerce Bulletin.)
Under the leadership of the Cham
Der S convention bureau, the move
ment to boom New England as the pre-
mier vacation land has had an aus
picious beginning. 1t deserves no small
measure of success No section of the
country can compare with New Eng
land in its limitless> opportunities for
enjoyment and recreation on land or
sea.
While we all admit that New Eng
land is the best there is among the
world s Fairgrounds, this bare admis-
sion on our part will not bring the
country 5 yacationists to this section.
We must make a positive assertion,
prove our ease and see that the verdict
is placed before the country. The adj
vertising is needed not alone by those
whose business is another S pleasure
but by New England as a prosperous
| live district industrially, commercially
educationally, and as a place to sue
/ coed. The movement has larger posi-
| bilitics than at first are apparent, Hell
| it along.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20

posed on the firamen thereby, the mis-
creant gave rise to apprehension in the
minds Of many people who had rela-
tives or friends in the hospital or who
were otherwise interested in the insti-
tuition; there was grave fear that the
alarm was sounded to save the hospital
and its inmates. There always is real
satisfaction when the person who viii
fully turns in a false fire alarm is
rounded up and punished as he de
serves; but, unfortunately, the oc-
casions are all too infrequent. 1t would
be a good thing if the miscreant who
selected fire alarm box near the Brat
tleboro hospital for his work could be
given severe lesson-for himself and
for others who might be similarly per-
verified in mental workings.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20
Stop Supplying Arms.
WASHINGTON Post.N

Under existing conditions in Mexico,
and especially in view of the Carranza
note demanding withdrawal of our
troops and the placing of his own
forces in strategical positions along
their lines of communications the fol-
lowing telegram from Laredo, Tex,
under date of April II, points directly
to the duty of our government to
place an embargo at once upon all
shipments of war material to Mexico:
Ammunition for the Carranza
government, 332,0 900 rounds of
rifle ammunition and $4,000
pounds of dynamite, having been
sent into Mexico from this point
yesterday, it was announced to-
day -.
1t Is very evident that the Carranza
| so-ealled government is not govern
ment with control of Mexico
Ammunition and other war material
| for Carraaza may be used against
! American soldiers before May / b.
| forces under orders of Carranza, or il
may fall into the hands of Zapata OF
| Villa forces through intrigue or b.
capture before it has been ten day.
/ in Mexico.
An embargo on arms to Mckee
should be restored at once, aad every
precaution should be taken to safe
guard our brave troops now within tn
hostile country
Carranza today is the same obsti
nate Carranza that he was when h
refused to send delegates to the peac
conference at Niagara.
The lives of thousands Of America
soldiers may be endangered by thes
shipments of arms and ammunition t
Mexico.
The, embargo should be enforced
closely, and the entire frontier and tn
coast of Mexico sealed as long as on
troops are in that country and out
numbered four to one by armed Mex
cans.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20
HO NE S T Y

per cent at the saving bank with no
other security except the windy pro
tests of an honest man who lost his
conscience at the same time he lost his
roll.
It is comparatively easy to be honest
when everything is lovely and the goose
honks high, as the poet Keats said. Ii
there were not so much wealth and
ready money in this country, there
would be more sympathy for the mfor-
tunate duffer who is out of both and
needs food more than he does kind
words. The church and the lodge teach
high grade Of honesty but a sack Of
-four donated at the right time can do
wonders to brace up wavering broth
CT.
If old Diogenes were alive today he
wouldn t have to comb the country to
find an honest man and waste good mon
ey on tallow candles. We have any
number of honest men. and some of
them are in congress. where the temp
tations to remain honest are not thick
enough to cause discomfort The man
who doubts everybody honesty but
his own needs two things-religion and
watching.
Honesty is said to be the best policy
because il is not followed by a death
/ bed repentance.
MS Newspaper Servicel
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20

Honesty IS a straight and narrow
path which never gets too crowded for
comfort. Lots of people are started in
this path while young by a good father
and mother, but before going very
far strike off into some alley and have
TO be bailed out in a repentant state
Honesty consists in telling the truth
and backing it up with the goods. The
man who can look l,500 pounds Of soft
coal in the face and call it ton has
a definition of honesty that is not given
IN any dictionary, and the man who
buys the coal has singing sensation
under the fifth rib. Whenever dis
honesty has tried to hook up with the
truth and do business with pious
look, the result usually is to dissolve
the partnership by mutual consent, be
cause truth is not broken to drive dou-
BILE to any extent.
The more honesty a man has about
his person, the less he wants to talk
about it. Honesty very rarely travels
around in a gilt chariot with a coon
band. Whenever person has so much
surplus honesty on tap that it begins to
stick out and talk like a praver-meet-
ing, people of a suspicious nature begin
to back off and count their small
change. It is n risky proceeding to
part with money that is drawing 4
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20
DIssoLUTE HENS LAY BEST.
Drunken BOOSTERS, Too, Are Improve
ment, Says Scientist

PHILADELPHIA April 20. - Dis
solute ROSTERS that come home stag
gering at dawn, with maudlin crows
Of ica-doodle-do, and hens that
soak up ether highbalIs really are
better parents than teetotaller chick
ems.
This discovery of science, laid here
before the annual convention of the
American Philosophical society, as
founded that learned body.
Raymond Pearl, biologist at the
Maine Agricultural Experiment stal
ton, told of experiments made at the
station upon seventy chickens. 1t was
found that the drunken chickens grew
fatter than those which were denied
opportunity to dissipate and in a year
the alcoholic hens averaged 184 eggs
apiece, while their white ribbon sis
ters averaged only Isl.
The rummy roosters became lazy
and quarreisome, but otherwise were
in excellent condition.
Too many crooks spoil the graft.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20
UNMARRIED MEN LEAD.
Statistics Prove That Large Proportion
of Criminals are Bachelors.

NEW YORK, April 20. II Unmarried
men as law breakers outnumbered mar
ried men two to one, according to the
annual report of the district attorney
of New York county. This relative pro
portion was maintained last year, when
2,4S4 single men, as compared to PA
married men, were arraigned in the
criminal courts. The proportion Of men
arraigned as criminals in the last 10
years is even more to the disadvantage
of the bachelors, as 2,331 of them were
accused, while only 1892 married men
were charged with crime.
More crime was committed by per
sons between the ages Of p and 3C
than by those of any other age. Few
men past 40 were convicted.
The records show that criminals are
becoming more economical and are in
crcasing their demands for free counsc
to be assigned by the courts. Excep'
in murder eases, the lawyers SO assignee
receive no pay.
Canada has 200 factories maxim.
munitions Of war.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20

from the monotonous task and the
children a change of food. 1t was
pleasant all around. This is an idea
which might be used in many places
where children need to carry lunches
Custards, when well baked. make a
most desirable food With a sandwich
and few nuts and an apple. this will
prove most satisfying meal.
Paper napkins are so inexpensive
that one should keep a supply on hand
to use for lining the box or basket
and for napkins Each sandwich,
pickle. egg or piece of cake should be
wrapped carefully. Brown bread, rye,
bran cornmeal and baking powder
biscuits will furnish variety A little
surprise TO vary the usual is always
pleasing to child. A piece of candy,
fig or q date. hidden away III cor
ner will always delight them.
Peanut butter is enjoyed (when not
made too common) as sandwich fill
ing. There are so many kinds of salad
filings that there need never be one
used too often to tire of it.
Brown bread spread with butter and
well seasoned cottage cheese in which
bit of onion juice is placed for sea
soning, and tablespoonful of chopped
nuts is another good filling.
Candy, of course, is always liked by
the little people, but should be used
sparingly A piece of candy eaten
after each meal will not be undesir
able. but a fig or date will satisfy the
sweet tooth and be much more whole
some
Dates. nuts and little cream mixed
/ together, the ingredients chopped fine
/ before adding the cream, makes {
1 most dainty sandwich.
Fruit should never be omitted from
| the lunch, as it is one of the foods III
t dispensable to a well-balanced lunch
The dainty, careful packing of lunch
/ is most important means of keeping
children well, happy and able to EMO.
their food
Nu. hrle1~se
Since 1910 Missouri has mined 124,
l04,452 tons Of coal
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20
Member of the Associated Press.

The ReforIner is on saie. every evening
by the foilowing, news Dealers:
Park Drug Store, {. W. Cleaveland D
K. Cutler < Co. t1steyvilIe).
West Brattleboro, J. l., Stockwen.
East DummeTston, NJ +. Brown
Putney, NJ. G.. Williams. -.e
Newfane, N. NJ. Batchelder. 't
Townshend, G. w. Cutler.
West T ownShend, c. II. Grout.
Jamaica, r. J. Daggett
South Londonderry, F. Il. Tyler. ..
South Vernon, L. p. Buffum set
Streeter.
4lnsdale, N. r., w H. Lyman.
Bellows, Falls, VT, Depot Restaurant
Windsor, VI, Windsor Restaurant.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20

The crowd of cattle men who gath
cred in Bellows Falls yesterday and
dav before to attend the auction sale
of Holsteins is an indication of what
will be happening in Brattleboro every
month or so after the completion of
the Purebred Livestock Sales com
panv's pavilion in this town.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20

The Arbor Day proclamation of
Governor Gates, printed in The Re
former yesterday, was considerably
above the average document of this
kind, not only in the sentiments ex-
pressed, but the method of expressing
them.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20

The residents of New Hampshire,
who have usually observed Fast Day
by attending the first baseball games
of the season, will endeavor to make
the day of real value this year by desig-
mating it as cleanup day.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20
False Fire Alarms.
Barre Times.)

The wicked mental slant that causes
a person to turn in false fire alarm
was doubly accentuated at Brattleboro
when a miscreant picked time shortly
after midnight and place near the
hospital to carry on his work. In addi-
ton to the work and the dangers i'm
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20

daily problem that
the mothers have
given it thought.
five N o t h e RS
agreed to pack the
lunch for the five
one day a week.
T h is gave tn 9
nnnfhorC tho 1,n1iof
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20
Two. No $3.50 Calves
-lS5.25 Worth of
BIatChfOrd'S Calf
Meal ---S25.5O
Can you help your customer to
make money any faster than that?
HERE'S WHAT ONE WOMAN DID:
Balacbford Calf Meal Factory,

e.-s March ,, 1916,
Balachford Calf Meal Factory,
Waukegan, Illinois.
Gcutlemen:-We are city people who
own a farm, the management of which
has devolvGd upon me, a woman, for
tho last two years.
We sell cream, and having a calf we
did not want to raise, Offered it for
sale, but the only bid was $3.50. That
seemed so little that l decided TO risk
an experiment with calf meal
We use the cold water separator so
the SKINNED milk was also half water,
therefore used that to scald the meal as
well as to thin it, About three weeks
later another calf was born so he also
was fed that way. Ny neighbors as
sured me il would never get the market
price, that ! could not possibly fatten
them on calf meal and would not get
more than $4,000 for the two. One
weighed rs pounds when ~ hours old
and the other was not weighed until it
was nearly three weeks old. when it
weighed - pounds. ! sold both ut the
same timc-one was 10 weeks old and
weighed Isl pounds, the other weeks
old and weighed 40 pounds. I sent
them to the nearest city and got l012c;
my ncighbor getting Zoe for one raised
ON the COW. ! fed $50 pounds OF caF
meal costing 1925 and paid Zoe trans
portation. clearing $3.50 aud S2o.5t
over what | would have gotten if | hat
sold for hobs.
Yours truly,
G.. McALLISTER.
Salt Point, y. Y
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20
TO SUBSCRIBERS.

1t is the aim of the management to
secure efficient service in the delivery
of the paper each night, and it solicits
the cooperation of subscribers to that
end. Prompt reports should be given of
each failure to receive the paper on the
morning following the omission in per
son, by telephone or postal card, thus
enabling the cause of the error to be
promptly and accurately discovered and
the proper remedy Immediately applied.
1t is only by this method that the pub
Usher can secure the desired service
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20

The election of a Brattleboro man
as commander of the Vermont G. A.
r. means that the 50th annual en-
campment of that honored ofganiza-
ton will in all probability take place
here next year, which is fortunate
both for Brattleboro and the G. A. R.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20

Henry Ford does not take his presi-
Dental candidacy as seriously as his
peace propaganda, but to date the for
mer is decidedly the more successful
of the two.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20
TO ADVERTISERS.

Transient advertising-Ru of paper
so cents an inch for first insertion; %
cents an inch for each subsequent inser
ton. Limited space on first page at
double rates.
Space rates on application.
Classified advertisements Five cents
line first insertion with so per cent
discount for each subsequent Insertion
without change of copy.
Reading Notices-Ten cents per line
first insertion with so per cent discount
for each subsequent insertion without
change Of copy.
Position 10 per cent extra.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20

Rhode Island Republicans have de-
clared for that candidate for president
% for whom every Republican can
vote And every one Of the delegates
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20
HHEEKsII> >I=E.z{
GA IIB:)I[.NNEI5D

The place to be happy is here, the
time to be happy is now. the way to
be happy is to help make others So
Ingersoll.
Praise loudly; blame softly.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20

Let's see, isn't tonight at 9 o clock
the limit set by the listers for filing
inventories with impunity?
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20

We don t sec much any more of
those little old valises just big enough
for a collar and a nightie. Even father
is getting so he travels more elaborate
w.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20
BRILLIANT LILLIAN.

Lillian Russell says that thinness
may be remedied by eating fatpro-
ducing foods, and we suspect she is
right.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20

Everything else being equal, we al
prefer a woman with dull elbows.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20

A refreshing shampoo may be taker
with soap and water. Wash the head.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20

to Chicago from the littlest state are
said to favor the nomination of Justice
Hughes.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20
THE SCHOOL LUNCH.

In one neighborhood where the
packing of lunches has become such
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20

The "oecan to OCEAN telephone
line makes use of 1900 tons Of cop
Ipor.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20

There are 100 varieties Of mosquit,
in the United States.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20

There is something metropolitan
about a silo.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20

Protected by The Adams Newspaper servioel
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20

Canada has 200 factories maxim
munitions Of war.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20

Too many crooks spoil the graft.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-20
y ours truly,
G.. McALLISTER.
Salt Point. y. Y

A Good Talking Point to Get Customers
The Ordway new era., 1916-04-21
IS II AN ILI-oslENe

Down at Sugar City last Saturday
Republicans of this county took a
preferential vote of presidential pos
ssbilities. There were SO votes cast
and Roosevelt got % of them, 13 go
ing to others. Is 1t an ill-omen that
he should get % and lose 10? Never
theless it brought surprise as most
Of the zs voting for Roosevelt had
been DO quiet about his advocacy of
the return of the mis-nomered
Rough Rider" that he deemed him
.self almost alone in his desires. These
Roosevelt men have been quiet be-
cause they have so many times heard
It said that Roosevelt was a warrior
and would have plunged us in the
very depths Of slaughter were he
president Contrary to that flaunted
belief many are coming to the con-
clusion that unless we have such a
man at the helm we will be dragged
into war because of our failure to
make other nations respect our gov
eminent. 1t isn't war we want but
a II respect for our country. and that
The Ordway new era., 1916-04-21
THE SLAUGHTER GOES ON

A young man in California gets in
to trouble He is doomed to serve a
term in the penitentiary unless his
father comes to his rescue. He is
rescued by that father, vast sums of
money being paid to clear him of
serious charges. That young man
is taken to another state, to Colorado
for instance. He is introduced into
business circles and people are lead
to believe that he is a model youth
with good future. His father places
him at the very head of big bank to
handle its funds. People have con-
fidence because that father has led
them to believe the son is patterned
after honesty and truth. Men and
women in all stations of life flock
to his bank and deposit their money
because they have been made to be-
lieve, by that father. that it is the
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glf 1neialn have been giving the
oo1sy question considerable
59e1t and for . long time have
i ssile1ns< 4 advisable for the city to
tile o.. - grounds. add to it more
lanA and properly improve the pro-
besty. There should not be dis
ssntlnG votcs raised against the pur-
chase ana proper handling Of this bur-
~ grolnd. It Is not only a dis
credit 70 tie community but 1t indi-
Gates hack Of respect for the depart
" dead. This cemetery is not in
keeping with other things of the COM
munity. It should be and a proper
acQsisition Of the property and i'm
provsments such as will beautify the
place Will doubtless be deemed COM
mendable work. The people with one
accord should. and no doubt will,
be back Of the movement.
The Ordway new era., 1916-04-21

stS IL y y y y u Itil u Il M ~
r. ~ - ~ = ~ y = f6azd " lAx.
Ilcot ~ AA1k. soAbsd ~ peopls
Isnd ~. II - u Ain. H - :
Icrook and that fAther knew II. still
Inc pahnsd him of onto the innocent
public. That fAthsr's crime b -
great ~ that Of the son and punish
ment in the penitentiary for
the balence Of his natural life is<no
more than he deserves. But . charge
on such grounds could not be made.
1T would be useless even could there
be charge preferred covering that
feature for when United States dis
trict attorneys and deputies have EVIL
dence that would point to the speedy
conviction Of the father on other
charges and they are thrown out, one
after another by United States jur-
ist until all OF SO counts are gone.
what's the use. Let him go free and
allow the unsuspecting public to be
led like lambs to the slaughter.
The Ordway new era., 1916-04-21
CROWLEY NEWS

/
County Superintendent w. E. Dal-
by visited the Crowley school Mon
day.
Mrs. Canie Barton visited her
daughter, Mrs. A. I.Nelson Saturday
and Sunday.
The McFall family moved to Fow-
Ter Tuesday.
The Young Mems class entertained
the Young Ladies' class at the home
of Frank Whitney. There was a fine
crowd present and all enjoyed them
selves very much.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Rusher visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Rusher Sunday.
Miss Beatrice Bolles and Mrs. @. F..
Richardson visited Mrs. C. N. McNul-
ty Wednesday.
There will be congregational