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Evening star., 1916-12-25
Failed to Afford Relief.

we who are supporting the bin be-
lieve that the relief legislation enacted
in 1914 for the oil men who went on this
land in good faith did not accomplish the
results desired said Senator Phelan.
He said that the democratic steering
had assigned the oil lands
leasing bill a place on the program for
this session. and that he expected the
bill to come up in the senate soon after
the Christmas recess. lie indicated
that amendments would be offered to
the bill which should be satisfactory
to the Navy Department"
Many of the western senators are
vitally interested in the passage Of
the bill. which provides a system of
leasing not only oil lands, but potash
and phosphate lands on government
land in the west. All of these re-
sources for the present tied up.
and the people of the western states
are anxious to be permitted to develop
them.
Some Oppose Leasing System.
Some of the senators are opposed to
a leasing system. believing that the
lands should be open to entry. but they
are willing to concede this point if they
can get some legislation which would
permit the development of these re
sources lying idle in their states.
Senator Walsh of Montana moved to
take up the Myers water power bill,
which provides for leasing water power
sites on public domain, just before the
Senate adjourned for the recess. but
he failed to get vote. owing to the
lack of quorum. Senator Walsh, how
ever, is friendly to the mineral lands
leasing bill. it Is known, and he will
not oppose a motion to take that meas
ure up, it is understood
Evening star., 1916-12-25

Miss Rita Nusbaum Of 80 Harvard
street has as her guests Miss Frances
| Lowenstam of Manchester, \. II: MISS
Rose Sloane Of Brooklyn, ~ L.: ana
Miss Carlyn Hiener of Culpeper. Va. in
whose honor she will entertain at
dance tonight.
Evening star., 1916-12-25

Miss Elizabeth Iung kwai has ar
rived from Wesley, and her brother Mr..
Burnham. from Yale. where they are
students. and will spend the holidays
with their parents. the counselor of
the Chinese legation and Mrs Yung
kwai
Evening star., 1916-12-25
Special Reductions in
Exclusive Coats.

You are assured in this the models which
most popuar-in the preferred-wth the big
generous collars and cuffs of the fashionable frs. The eg
lar prices concededy exceptionally low for the accom-
panyng vaueswhch makes the announced reductions the
important.
Evening star., 1916-12-25

Miss Nellie p. Hart. daughter of Mrs.
John Hart Of Bloomingdale. was mar
ried at St Martins Church, saturday. to
Evening star., 1916-12-25

Mr. and Mrs. George Warrington left
today for New Orleans to attend the
wedding of their son, Mr.. Chester II.
Warrington, and Miss Myrtle Dorothy
Daspit Mr. Whitney Leary of Wash
ingtou accompanied them.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-09

Four of the leading colleges for wom-
Smith, Vassar and Mt.
followed the lead of
Harvard in adopting combination
plan Of admitting students upon the
basis Of certificate and examination.
Hereafter the school from which a stu
dent comes win be expected, not to
decide whether that student is fitted for
college, bat to furnish information of
the student 5 record and character and
leave the final decision to the college,
to be determined by examination. But
instead of the dozen or more examina-
tons that have heretofore been re-
quired, the number will be reduced to
four, III subjects to be chosen by the
applicant. The object of the examina-
tions win be to test mental ability rath-
er than knowledge of minute and ped
antie details. Some such modification
as this in the entrance requirements of
all colleges would emancipate the sec
ondaIy schools Of the country from a
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-09
At the Library
Books of Biography and Intimate
Personal Interest

The Life and Letters of John Har. Viii
liam Roscoe Thayer. (Houghton
AIifiin Coz
Tells the story of this interesting
and useful career from Mr.. Hay birth
and boyhood days in Indiana through
his college course at Brown university,
his adolescent worship of sentimental
poetry, his reluctant return to the life
Of the Middle West, and then of his
great opportunity when John G. Nieo-
lay insisted that he should 90 to Wash
ington to share with him the burden
and responsibility of the private see
retaryship of President Lincoln. Then
IN later years came his most important
work as one of the ablest and most far
seeing men who has ever filled the see.
ond great Office in our government as
secretary OF state. The story is told
III great part from Mr.. Hay S wartime
diary and the letters of his later life.
Through all these shines Mr.. HAYS
steadE, but by no means pedantic, de-
Votlon to high ideals, and the saving
grace of an unfailing ability to see
and to express the humorous side of all
work and personal problems. Doubtless
the best and most entertaining of all
the books of its class in recent years.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-09
WARNS OF IMMIGRATION RUSH
Camlnetd Sees Threatened Invasion
From Western Asia

WASHINGTON, Dee. 8. = Warming
against threatened migration of the
populations of western Asia to the
United States is contained in the an
nual report of Commissioner General
Anthony Caminetti OF the immigration
service. The war and conditions i'm
medIately after its close will stav the
stream for time, but steps to head if
OH must be taken before transportation
interests begin to Gull the field for
their business, the report says.
immigration from the far Orient.
too, IS problem still unsolved, the re-
port sets forth. The systems heretofore
devised to deal with it do not promise
much Improvement, and machinery for
enforcement of the Chinese exclusion
act Is not adequate or well adapted, it
says. Arrangements for the admission
OF japanese, it is said, should be amend
ed to hit conditions better.
The Chinese exclusion law saws
the report, should be so modified as
TO make use of the same administra-
tive methods and means as are> en-
ployed IN enforcing the general immi-
grafton law; and the japanese arrange
Hent be so changed as to eliminate
'nere1r rom those exceptions that have
tendency SO to broaden as to reduce ma
tenaily the efficiency Of the otherwise
Ialrly satisfactory law.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-09
START CHRISTMAS SHOPPING.

Have you started your Christmas
shopping yet! Have you even begun
by making out list of things that you
wish to buy Have you even thought of
Christmas? Or are you one of those
who win wait until two days before
Christmas, hustle down town and then
find fault because You cannot get wait
ed upon or because you cannot get the
articles you want?
The time to do your Christmas shop
ping is now, and get it over with. The
assortments in the stores are complete.
The goods are displayed to the best ad-
vantage. They have not been handled.
and the pretty Christmas boxes and
castings are fresh and unmarked bv
dusty, dirty fingers. You will save
money by buying now, and you will save
Yourself a lot of last minute Worrying.
When you get home, lool, your pur-
chases over and then, if you have for
gotten anyone, you will have ample time
20 make the purchase.
Think how much better you will feel,
if, a week before Christmas you can sit
down and know all you have got to do
is deliver your presents that your
shopping problems are over for the wear.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-09
DISCUSSES BUcHAREsT's FALL.
Gen. Maurice Declares It Has No Mil.
itary Significance.

LONDON, Dee. 9. - ''The fall of
Bucharest is without military signif-
cance but | have no desire to under.
rate the fact that its surrender has a
considerable moral and political eff
feet, " said Gen. f. B. Maurice, chief
director of military operations at the
British war office, on discussing with
the Associated Press the latest military
operations Of the entente allies.
The Rumanian army is still intact,
rs II was never In danger of great loss
until it made the stand on the Ar
geehu, where it was defeated. 1t must
have lost considerable number of
men when the enemy broke through
Reports from Germany of from
$4,000 to 100000 Rumanian prisoners
must include the civilian population of
the occupied districts The material
gain of the Germans around Bucharest
are not as great as they expected, as
the Rumanians succeeded in INJECTING
great damage on the oil fields. while
much corn was removed.
II IS dangerous to prophecy where
the humanlans will make their stand
but 1T is reasonable to presume thew
will take a position on the narrow
neck of Rumania which still gives pos
session of the larger part of the coun-
try and provides strong positions for
the TANKS.
Some reasons for the Rumanian
difficulties may be summarized as fol
lows: Faulty organization of equipment
and railroads and lack of heavy guns. -
Gen. Maurice had nothing new to
report from the western front. He dis
missed this topic by stating that a new
foe, in the form of fog, had been en-
eountered in the Somme valley, pre-
venting the use of artillery and there,
fore bringing operations to a stanlstill.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-09
Lloyd-George, Man of Action.

N4hdhCHeStef, n. H., UnlOn.)
Why was that fiery little Welshman,
David loydGeorge, offered the prem
iership of Great Britain? There has
been no general election in which popu-
lar approval of his ideas was -ex-
pressed. The new premier has no party
back Of him and no assured parliamen-
tary majority by means of combina-
ton. He comes to his high office with
no record of a skillful political negotia-
tor like that of the adroit Asquith with
which to unite Liberals, Unionists,
Laborites and Irish Nationalists. Why
should he be the inevitable man in this,
one Of the darkest hours for the en-
tente allies since the battle of the
Marne?
Naturally one looks back into his
record for an answer There he is
found as chancellor of the exchequer
at the outbreak of the war, and the
originator of emergency fiscal meas
ures which won the unbounded admira-
tion of the Bank of England officials
and the whole financial world. Then, as
minister of munitions, he converted
Britain into a huge arsenal, bending
both capital and labor to his will. SET
| tllng strikes with single speeches, and
ettectlng an industrial reorganization
so swiftly and so effectively that the
result is one of the wonders of this
amazing war. In the Sein Finn crisis
ne went to Ireland and in almost no
time had worked out a plan which had
The support of both Redmond and Car
son, of Liberals and Unionists, and
failed only because of Tory opposition
in the cabinet. And then he succeeded
Kitchener as secretary of state for war.
and was serving III this capacity when
the nation made up its mind that the
war was not being Won and could not
be won by present methods. 1t is sig
ulticant that in the crisis the war min
lister was the inevitable choice for
premier. 1t can mean nothing less than
that he had inspired the same conf
dence while serving in this post that
he had won in the treasury and the
munitions department. In truth.
LloNd-Gtorge does seem to have a way
o. getting things done, magnetic in
huence which bends men to his will and
inspires them with his ideas and pur-
poses, and this, it would seem from this
distance, is why he is called to his birb
oihce. England wants action and chooses
her man of action-a man who has
ahoWn himself capable of getting things
done.
1t Is true that heretofore Llovd-
George has been serving in the capacity
/ OF foreman OF a department and sue
cess there does not necessarily argue
ability to handle the whole shop. but
nevertheless, it is a pretty good idea
to give the foreman a chance if there
Is TO be a new superintendent, and this
IS what Britain has decided to do.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-09

see blushing bridegroom with spread
ing ears start off on the honeymoon
holding hands all the way down to the
station, and then on returning home
convert himself into a block of channel
lee and forget to kiss his wife except
when she gives him a birthday present.
Ii married men We're more regular and
lmpulsive in the matter of OSCILLATION
the divorce docket would be stripped
as clean as the chicken bones at a
church supper.
The married man used to be regarded
with considerable reverence. but now
nobody looks up to him except the
bootblack. Some OF our greatest think
ers and statesmen We're married men.
but they were too well known at home
TO be put on pedestal. It must be dis
appointing to tall, angular statesman
to be paid homage by the general pub
lie and on coming home at night be
ordered around by an irreverent, high
voiced wife. This teaches US that if
doesn pay to become great unless we
start at the family hearth.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-09

she said. Come
here to me- and she tried to make her
Voice sound like a Mother Hens
would sound.
THE little Chicken came running to
the side of the Turkey and seemed to
be quite happy and contented The
Turkey fed the Chicken when she fed
her own Children anG she looked after
him all day long.
But when Evening came and the
Turkeys were ready to go up to the
Tree to Roost as they always do when
Nighttime comes, the poor little
Chicken wished he had not left his
own Mother.
81 was very bad to leave my Moth
err he whispered in a fretful little
Voice.
Come on up the Tree said Mrs.
Turkey, who had reached the topmost
branch. I am ready to go to sleep and
all the Turkeys are. We want to put
our Heads under our Wings. We are
very Sleepy
But l can't get up there said the
Chicken.
Try said Mrs. Turkey.
The Turkey Children began to laugh
at the poor little Chicken who couldn't
Fly to branch of the Tree.
'Gobble, gobble, gobble,' they said.
Can't you FlyT
and the little Chicken stayed on
the ground below looking very I'M
happy.
I've can't keep Awake any longer
said the Turkey Children.
Go to Sleep, my loves said their
Mother. You are good Children and
know how TO roost in Tree and have
a good Nights Rest
81 could Roost and have a sleep
too moaned the Chicken, if only you'd
come down low
Now this is annoying said the
Mother Turkey. Didn't 1 give YOU
good things to Eat and look after you
all DayT
Yes said the Chicken.
land didn't I let you Play with my
splendid Children|
Yes said the Chicken again.
"'Well, can't you be grateful and
come to Bed like a good Chicken. Show
you are fine enough to belong to a
Turkey Family
But | don't want to belong to
Turkey Family! I am a Chicken and /
am used to the ways of Chickens. I
wish l We're back Home
"'Well, go Home then, you little
silly said Mrs. Turkey. It's the last
time | pay a compliment to a Chicken
by asking to bring him up as one of my
own. You're not able to Fly up to this
branch. Shamer
I'm very Thankful for the Pleas
ant Day you gave me- said the Chicken
politely, but l really must be going
now. For I'm just a little bit Home
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-09
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1916.
INEFFICIENT.

One of the most scathing arraign.
mcnts of any department of the govern
ment ever made public is found in the
annual report of Major General Hugh
L. Scott chief of staff, to the secretary
Of war. We talk about preparedness
but our military department is not only
inadequate but woefully inefficient
Here are a few items which give proof
of its failure under the test put upon it
by the summer mobilization for service
on the border:
tll More than ten per cent of
10000 Guardsmcn enrolled at the
time the militia was modified for
border service, failed TO respond to
the call
(2) OF the remainder, % per cent
could not pass the required test
CD Forty-three per cent turned
ont TO be raw recruits.
a. If the force had been raised
to war strength, - per cent thereof
would have been mready for many
months because unframed.
% Within month and half
after the call to the colors was IS
sued, only ll0957 officers and men
were on the border out of l5l 800
mustered into the service.
90 The total modified force was
$4,000 below war strength, and
more than 1900 below minimum
peace strength.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-09
TT e NJ RED MAN
tCoDyright.)
Howard L.Rdnn

The married man is a horrible example
who seems to enjoy it.
Nearly all married men look happy
on the outside and at times appear
even gay. This is because man is natu-
rally an optimist and has the patient.
forgiving attributes of the domestic
mule. 1t is appalling to think of the
number Of married men who nurse a
secret sorrow with one hand and try
to drown it in gin rickeys with the
other, and when we think of the heroic
fortitude and sublime resignation of
the average husband we wonder why
woman IS so particular in picking out
one.
The married man starts out as a
bridegroom, but soon gets over it. This
IS one respect in which man is a failure.
There would no doubt be more happi-
ness in the home if the bridegroom
would not turn sour three months af
ter the marriage ceremony. The trouble
with the average bridegroom is that
he cools off too soon. How often do we
protected nv Tho 40
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-09


but so Happy was she to find her Child
that she didn't Scold any more.
oh, take me Home to the Chicken
Roost,' said the little Chicken.
Yes said the Mother Turkey. I
do not care for your Child
"'You had no right to take Him
away, said Mother Hen. If you weren't
so high up I'd Thrash you with my
Wings
Tim afraid you couldn't in the first
place. said Mrs. Turkey politely, and
in the second place you should be glad
I'm way up here because your Child
couldn't Fly this far and so got Home
sick
"'Oh, I'll never leave Home again.
said the Chicken as he reached the
Chicken Roost, which was just right
for him. And the Mother Hen CLICKED
happy Good night
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-09

sick and [ want
my Mother Hen
Here the Chick
en- began to Cry,
and from a short
distance away the
Turkeys heard a
Gu k, Chuck,
Cluck.'
"Alon g tn e
Groun d, h alf
Walking and half
Flying as best she
could, came the
Mother Hen.
All, here you
are, my naughty
Chicken !, Shn Gid
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-09

DIR. Don d. Grout, who has resigned
as superintendent of the state hospital
for insane at Waterbury, has served
creditably in that position since 1905.
He will have worthy successor in
Dr. w. L. WATSON, who has been con-
nected with the hospital 10 years and
who has been senior assistant to DIR.
Grout all of the time that the latter has
been in office.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-09
Figures Are Eloquent.
Rutland News.l

lheFe were l8l Holsteins sold at the
auction sale IN Brattleboro in two DAYS
TINS week The figures are eloquent. One
COW Drought - 40 the price OF comfort
aole cottage. he average price was about
'hai al the hrst payment on a high-grade
used automobile. S225. There is material
IN these figures for a dissertation to the
elect that not all people have gone auto
mohllemad or pleasure-mad. Probably
every purchaser of the 1sl will find that
he struck good bargain, a source Of in
come and not outgo.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-09

Thirty million passengers were car
ried on ferryboats in San Francisco bav
Wlthontinjury through accident during
the year ending June 30, 1915. In the
last % years, it is stated, only two
deaths have resulted from ferry mis-
haps.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-09
Member Of the Associated press.

The Reformer is on sale every evening
by the following news dealers:
Brattleboro, Rrattleboro News Co.
@. ". Cleaveland, d. r. Cutler & Co.
tEsteyville). Brooks House Pharmacy.
West Brattleboro, J. l.. StockweIl.
East Dummerston, NJ f. Brown.
Putney, NJ. G. Williams
Newfane. n NJ Batchelder.
Townshend, c. w. Cutler
West Townshend, c. II. Gfout.
jamaica. r. J Daggett.
South Londonderry, F. H Tyler.
South Vernon, +. B BufTum.
West Chesterfield, NJ. H., Mrs. w.
streeter
HInsdaie, NJ. H., w. IL Lyman.
Bellows Falls, VI, Depot Restaurant,
Bertolino & Bertolino +. c. Winnewisser.
Windsor. VT. windsor Restaurant
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-09

Do not forget that your home mer-
chants are prepared to supply all your
holiday wants as reasonably as the
goods can be bought anywhere, and re
member that dollar kept in circula-
ton at home is worth something to the
community, while one sent to a distant
mail order house is gone forever.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-09
With Book and Water.

The person who is 1T" is blindfold-
ed, and he is told to kiss the book
which one of the players holds. He
kisses it three times, and the fourth
time pan of water is brought forth
AS he goes to kiss the book, he puts
his head down and it goes into the
water.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-09

James Cornson, of Rochester, \. H.,
during his long career as farmer, has
endeavored to do blowing in every
month of the year, and previous to 1916
had done so except in the month of
February This year he succeeded in
blowing in February.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-09
TO SUBSCRIBERS.

It is the aim OF the management to
secure efficient service in the delivery
Of the paper each night, end 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.
It is only by this method that the pub
Usher can secure the desired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-09
The Life of Charles A. Dana, Major.
GeneraD James Harrison Wilson.
IITar,a, G Dbl -

The Life of Charles A. Dana, Major
GeneraD James Harrison Wilson.
(Harper & Brothers.
No less than the two preceding works
Is this an intimate view Of the life of
a man who filed in his own way nota-
bic place III our recent American histo-
ry. Mr.. Dana was born in our neighhor-
ing town of Hinsdale, as is commonly
known, but family vicissitudes took him
IN early boyhood to western New York.
then back eastward to (or near) Guild
hall, III our own state of Vermont, then
to western New York again, and it was
from the city of Buffalo that, in 1899.
self-prepared, he went to Harvard col
lege. The story of his early manhood
development, of his Brook farm connee-
ton, OF his first work in journalism,
and of his service in the war depart
ment during the War for tie Union, is
well told. Then comes his life work as
the editor and owner Of the New York
sun, where he made and filed place
so peculiarly his own.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-09

eoscANAA w q e. Y q
big Rat. So Mrs.
Turkey said to
herself: i think
| will t a k e a
Chicken and look
after it. Mrs. Hen
won't mind. She
has so many to
look after as it is.
1t will probably be
a great relief to
her to have one
less
Mrs. It urk e Y
talked on in this
w a y an d S h e
called the Chick
en- she liked best.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-09

mass of restrictions that have hampered
and retarded their work for the real
development of their pupils.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-09
The Intimate Life of Alexander Hamil-

~ III l1'1'VV I4IIV OF AIVAdHuVF HamlI-
ton, Allen McLane Hamilton.
tSeribners.)
Stu another life record, largely made
up from original letters, and documents.
and for this reason possessing unusual
historical value, ana Illuminating one
Of the crucial periods III the early his
tory Of our American republic. OF alb
Sorbing interest and an invaluable ad-
dltlon to the library s well-flled
shelves of biography and history.