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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-12

thought - =. Jf--anT 20 give -peoDle n
different idea than that the very name
Of Pig meant dirt and mud.
Then the Pigs sang their school
song"
Il never heard of Pig singing.
Daddy" said Nancy.
"SnipS called it singing to encourage
them. But they called it the Pigs
BagpipeS Orchestral For, do Won
know that those little Pigs had be.
come so vain and proud of themselves
since they had been going to Ships
school that they thought their squeals
were every bit as good as some music
they had heard of called Bagpipest
And after that Peter Pink Pig got
up and with n very low bow he said
that they would all give their one
act play for the benefit of the Fairies
and i'll honor of their Teacher Snips
Another Pig waved a big. leafv
branch before the Fairies so that for
1 few minutes they could not see what
was going on. Then the Pig stopped
waving his branch, and all the Pigs
came forth on little stage made of
moss. They acted very funny play
called Ham or No Ham, OF course
they made Ham the villain of the
play, and no Ham was the hero-the
very finest Pig in the School. And
they acted in such a funny way that
the Fairies were laughing almost every
moment-until towards the end of the
play they wept because Ham, the vii
lain, won, which meant that the little
Pigs had been killed, and big folks had
had ham for dinner. The Fairies
were almost heartbroken over the end
ing. They were afraid that Ships had
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-12

The last of this month will mark
the end of the second year of the great
European war. The men who predict
ed that the fighting would last taree
years or more were wise in their day
and generation. 1t now seems proba-
bic that the war will run another full
year, perhaps longer. The outlook
was never so bright for the entente
allies, but it should be remembered
that all of the fighting has taken place
a long distance from German soil.
Unless Germany is crippled in re-
sources, both of men and munitions.
it will take long time to put the kai-
ser's soldiers on the defensive back of
their own borders.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-12
Everyday
WiSdOmH @SA
..DY Dm#ssoa 49, 81,
CORN ON THE COB.

The most fascinating of all land
foods, corn on the cob, is again with
us, and society is all agog. Corn on
the cob always creates a sensation.
1t knows we'll enough that it has no
business to appear in polite society,
yet each year it intrudes itself into
the best dining rooms and the most
exclusive cafes. Corn on the cob is
not wicked = it does not base its APP
peal on its wickedness. Let US see.
then, on what it does base its appeal.
Corn is essentially barn food.
When it appears in e dining-room it
always causes a certain amount of EN-
barrassment. People look at each
other to see how the intruder is to be
welcomed. And finally invariably
- it is always accepted fully and
unequivocally as regular dining-room
food = and people eat it. We should
say that the chief charm of corn on
the cob is its audacity. 1t is like
some of the characters we recall in
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-12
THE TURK ISL BATH
Howard ,LRdnn
and Seams UaX on cabba8es- q kin3SI

The Turkish bath is q successful
method of fading out what purgatory
feels like.
Long before the people of this coun-
Try had come to know and love Turkey
it was the custom in that strange lana
to take bath every once in a while.
The peaceful, hgena-hearted subjects
of the sultan tried out several kinds
of baths before lighting on the one
which has brought comfort to so maay
burdened souls and volcanic stomachs.
They tried out the sponge bath and
the wash-basin bath and the tub bath
and the mud bath and the alcohol rub.
but none seemed to meet the needs of
their rough, hacksaw natures as well
as the homemade variety, which IS
still used in Turkey at painful AID
irregular intervals.
The Turkish bath was brought to
this country to stimulate the crop of
total abstainers and has been an effer-
tive aid to temperance. After MAJ
who has become carefully intoxi-
Gated from his ears down enters
Turkish bath fer the first time and
watches himself turn to the bright
pink color of a porterhouse steak. he
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-12

Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde plays.
1t butts in where it has no business,
and society cannot resist it.
What sight is sweeter than beau
tiful, blushing debutante gnawing at
cob full of corn! II is almost as
if you had caught her out wading.
She does not know what to do with
her eyes; she cannot look at the corn
and eat it too. There IS nowhere
that debntante may nirt more effec-
lively than from behind cob full Of
corn. Every debutante should get q
lot of corn. Oh, it il frolicsome to
eat corn from eobl Il may be de-
PRAYED but. thank goodness, the
old Puritan days are pastl
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-12
A Legal Outrage.
(Rutland Herald.)


y recent happenstance in st.
Johnsbury shows how hard it is for
lawyers to earn living when fool
clients settle things themselves.
\ bullet crashed through the glass
.of the Avenue House tower in St.
Johnsbury on the night before the
Fourth and the proprietor Sherlocked
out the case, according to the Gale
DOMAIN, to a point where one William
DuNaI was accused of firing the fatal
shot.
William was honest. He had fred
the shot, although he hadn t intended
to puncture the window of the tall
tower, and he admitted IT. Some one,
he thought, had switched in Il
loaded shell into his celebrating
blanks, so the accident occurred.
William asked how much the dam
age was and was told it footed up
about 81. This he paid and departed
with a light heart to his further oc.
casions.
Then wise friends interviewed. They
told him about the law of negligence.
and reckOned that some party or par
ties unknown We're strictly to blame.
" You hadn t ought to settled one
said, ''you d ought to seen lawyer >.
Well, lawyers exist in ST. Johnsbury,
the peaceful city of scales, museums
and peaceful slumber, and William con
suited one. The counsel had no doubt
of his clients innocence He con
structed bulIet-proof defence i'll half
a minute, and went to the police de
partment with a verbal brief that
made William the victim of malicious
Interior circumstance, if not of con
spiraey, and cleared him completely.
The Chief was mighty interested,
but allowed the chief trouble was that
the damage had been estimated, the
bill had been paid and the incident
was closed This was a slight detail
that the client had not told his lawyer
at the time of consultation.
This was another frstclass lawsuit
busted NJ in the incubator. rs it were
Beats all how the poor lawyers live
these days.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-12
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-12
WEDNESDAY,, JULY II. 1916
INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

III Is reaSsurlng TO note that to date
there has been in Vermont this season
only one ease OF infantile paralysis.
which has spread through the eastern
section Of the country as 4 seourge OF
alarming proportions. Medical science
appears not yet to have met this NAL
ady, hence the general public should
take all known precautions. Should
Il ease appear, it should at once be re-
ported to the proper health authorities
| in order that the most earnest endeav-
/ ors may be taken to safeguard
against its spreaf.. -.
The symptoms Of the disease are
frequently: fever, accompanied BIZ
stomach or bowel trouble; discharge
from nose and throat, dullness and
rltability; pains in the lower limbs
and sometimes along the spine. These
are followed by the paralysis within
p hours. The attack is commonly
fatal If it is not the patient of
times is made helpless for life.
Prominent medico-seieutists offer
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-12

In Massachusetts, where the annual
election keeps the people in n perpet-
ual stew of politics, petitions are al
ready in circulation for the nomination
of Gov. Mccall for another term. Some-
thing Of that kind will be necessary in
Vermont this year, under the direct
primary system, but the action will be
purely matter of form as far as the
governorship is concerned On the
Republican side the eminent fitness of
State Auditor Horace F. Graham is
so generally recognized that there will
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-12

Forty members Of Massachusetts
company of the National Guard were
stricken with ptomaine poisoning from
eating canned salmon. 1t is to be
hoped the army beef scandal will not
be repeated in the form of an army
salmon outrage. What could be more
treacherous than for a corporation,
firm or individual to sell inferior and
injurious articles for the use of the
army?
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-12
EVhNLNG
FAIRY TALE q WARY
~ e soSSea
PIGS SHOW WHAT THEY KNOW,

"Now, Ships, the little Gnome," said
Daddy, "Was getting along splendidly
with the Pig School he had started,
and he had invited the Fairies to come
to the fine exhibition of knowledge and
learning the Pigs were planning to
give.
"All the Fairies, led by the Fairy
Queen, went to the old hollow tree
where Ships held School, and there
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-12

very much amused the Fairies.
They thought that his costume was
rather gay for a School Teacher, but
Ships had the idea that he must i'm
press the Pigs with cleanliness and at
tractivenesS-for, as he SO truly said,
they would just as soon wear tall hats
and tall boots Of mud!
AS for the Fairies, they came
dressed in soft gray dresses with gray
wings. and silver gray wands. They
had said they wanted to look like
little School Fairies.
Soon Ships began his teaching. All
the little Pigs stood up and recited in
chorus the many wise things Ships
had taught them-all about how clean
and neat they should be in order to be
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-12

1t may be the great drive, but the
New York Times thinks it is the great
squeeze. Germany is not now on the
offensive, except for defensive purpos-
es. 1t is not grip on her throat that
she is feeling, but steady and squeez-
ing pressure on every part. Germany
is the convenient, if incor-
rect name for the allied powers Of
Central Europe-is being pressed 81.
simultaneously on one side by Russia,
on another by the British and French
armies, on another by Italy. The
fourth side is the sea. where the pres
sure that is hardest and most painfully
felt has been exerted for nearly two
years by the British fleet.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-12

1t is about as dangerous in Vermont
to keep short trout as it is to sell
booze illegally. \ large number of
the cheap sportsmen who thought they
could get away with fish under legal
length have been arrested this season
and muleted in sums ranging from 800
to $500 each.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-12
SENATOR PAGES REELECTION
Do the People Desire His Return
to the Senate?

The Lyndonville Union Journal
sent out letters to several thousand
prominent NERMoNTERs asking
their opinion as to public sentiment
on the United States Senatorship
question
The first returns, being those re-
celved up to the time the Union
Journal first went to press after
sending out of these letters.
showed the following results at the
end OF the first week:
For SENATOR PAGE, 32l1
For EN-Gov. FLETCHER. SC
At the end of the second week ::
For SENATOR PAGE. 1925
For EN-Gov. FLETCHER. 121
Some OF the newspapers Of the
state III commenting upon the
extraordinary preponderance of
Page preference, have been in
cllned TO question the fairness OF
this test vote, the Montpelier .Irqus
going to the extent of intimating
that the letters we're only sent to
the personal friends OF Senator
Page. Here is its language:
One paper asserts that the list
OF names was made up Of Page
supporters, and that sc went over
to the enemy"
The Bennington Banner seemed
to believe that the preferences fol
Ex-Governor Fletcher represented
the few weeds which had found
their way into Senator Pages po-
litical garden. Here is its Ian
guagc:
The Lwdon7Hc Journal has
been taking Il straw vote OF a Sc
lected list Of Page supporters and
find that S6 of them have gone
over to Fletcher, Fire and furies!
Isn't there any way to keep the
weeds out of our garden"
In view OF these suggestions it
Is perhaps best to quote what the
editor Of the Union-Jomnal has
10 say with reference to the class
of persons to whom these letters
were sent. Here is what the edi-
tor says:
How the list of names sent out
was made up is stated below.
Whether it IS or is not a fair list
the readers may Judge; we simply
give the facts.
First, it contained the names
Of living members of the Legisla-
lures from 1910 up to the present
time, between 700 and 500 in all.
1t contained the names of ev-
cry physician, lawyer, minister of
the gospel, and the greater part of
the leading business men. and town
in each town and county
and state officials from 1910 up to
the present time.
Speaking generally. the list was
made up, to a quite considerable
extent, from names found in Wal
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-12

tree, waiting for
their tie Il C h err,
Ships, to come
n n q a S k t h e m
questions.
"They all had
their stone states
and their sharp
stone pencils, and
were practicing
their letters every
little while. They
were writing beau
tiful big P's, for
their family name,
more often than
any other letter.
fright on time
came Ships. He
was wearing q tall
gre e n h a t a n d
green SpectacleS
on his nose, which
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-12
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Space rates on application
Classified advertisements Five cents
a line Hrst insertion with so per cent
discount for each subsequent insertion
without change OF copy.
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Position 10 per cent extra
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-12

not be the slightest opposition to him,
and any man who takes the Democrat
ic nomination knows that he will sim
ply act the part of dummy to be set
up and then knocked down when oppos-
ing a man of such widespread popu-
larity as Graham enjoys.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-12
Fairly Tart Advice.
Rutland Herald.

AZ this particularly opportune time,
the Bennington Banner recalls the fla.
nous Bennington Reformer suit against
Senator Page for money said to be due
on account of political support. The
Banner advises its contemporaries to
send IN bills early and collect before
the vote is counted. Fairly tart advice,
II would seem.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-12
TO SUBSCRIBERS,

1t is the aim OF the management to
secure efficient service in the delivery
of the paper each night and il soIicits
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, 1916-07-12

ton IS Vermont Register, from 1910
forward. as well as from rosters
Of Grand Army Posts, Oranges and
other fraternal organizations.
Let us analyze this matter a lit
tie more closely. What class of
persons III Vermont is it that. to
the extent of more than 80 out of
every 81, believe that public senti-
ment is for the return Of Senator
Page: Let us see what grounds
for complaint, if any, the friends
Of Ex-Governor Fletcher properly
have against the class Of individ-
uals to whom this test vote was re-
ferred.
Ex-Governor Fletcher was
member of the Legislature, either
IN the capacity of Representative.
Senator or Governor, from OctO-
Der, 1902, to January, 1915. Dur
ing all these years he was forming
close personal acquaintance with
the different members of these
Legislatures, and for the two wears
OF his incumbcncy Of the guberna-
torial Office filled 1S9 appointive
positions.
On the other hand since 1908
Senator Page has been in attend
ance upon his duties at Washing
ton. Only once during the whole
period has he left the Senate while
Congress was in session, to meet
and make the acquaintance of his
constituents, not that he would rot
have been very much pleased to do
so, but rather because he felt that
he could not do 50 without neglect
Of duty. His lack of personal
touch and contact with his con
stituents has been regarded By
many as his chiefest fault, but be
that as it may, everyone under
stands that it is usually safe to az
Sert that when the Senate is in ses-
sion Senator Page can be found at
the National Capitol.
In brief, while ex-Gov. Fletcher
has had every opportunity to meet
and come into close personal touch
with the people of Vermont, and
under the most favorable condi
tons. Senator Page has been dc
prived of this great privilege,
How then can it be truthfullv
said that a list comprising all the
living members of the Legisla-
lures of Vermont from and inclu1-
ing 1910 UP to the present time.
between 700 and 500 in all, is IN
FAIR SO far as Ex-Governor fetch
er is concerned? If UNFAIR to any
one was it not unfair to Senator
Page Did not Ex-Governor
Fletcher have every possible adj
vantage over Senator Page?
Finally, LET us repeat as a proper
sequence to this article the ques-
ton at its head, viz:
Do the people desire
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-12

IL It wasn't for the mistakes they
make some men would never be heard
OF.
a man never complains Of poor eye
sight because he is unable to see his
own faults.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-12


too much, when
along came the
Mothers and Dad
dies of the Pigs in
the School. They
wore mud shoes
and stockings and
mud patches all
over. They heard
just the end of the
play, a n d t h e Y
said, It is fine to
see the Pigs know
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-12

so much but they must fatten up and
De lazy. We have such happy life,
ana II IN the end we're seized by the
villain, why should be carer And the
Fairies laughed and said:
All kinds of Pigs make up the Pig
world, too, it seems-anyway, we've
seen a very unusual play 7 !"
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-02-16

rhcmatics still though unworthy some proving ON
kindly rounds keep moving I'M cncmcuI- and cellars smelly
distributing soup and IcllN.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-10

that they should pasteurize their but
ter. and he also told them how to do
it.
A professor of the University of
Wisconsin sat in the audience and
lisened to Whites attempt to better
the butter industry of his State, but
the professor did not carry the lesson
with him to the University of Wiscon-
sin, which was then engaged in teach
pert bad butter makers, hopelessly
disregardful of the necessity of pas
teuriZation.
I want TO tell you this said
White. making butter in the old, hap
hazard. Indifferent, unscientifc way
must cease if our creameries expect
to remain in existence. The practice
now In vogue of doping old, sour,
stale putrid and sometimes rotten
cream will not long prevail if pas
teurizing becomes q law.
"T am opposed To the acid neutral
ization of rotten cream. Many butter
makers have thrown up their hands
in horror when the term rotten cream
has been used, and they say: Hush!
We must not permit such terms to be
used in connection with the cream =
cries of this country
But let me tell you frankly that
We must confront it. and the sooner
all the facts become known the sooner
there will be change for the better.
The creameries must return to the
good old days of absolutely sweet
cream or whole milk, but during the
present chaotic stage the butter maxi
ers must put up fight to bridge over
this unfavorable time.
I'VE must get cleaner and better
cream, and we must pasteurize. Per-
sonally / would not consider the oper-
alton of any creamery or milk plant
without pasteurization. Pasteurization
destroys the germs of disease and
makes the butter better. 1t also
makes it keep better because by the
time is reaches the consumer it is not
full of rotten barn flavors.
Fresh gathered cream, sweet and
good, pasteurized at once, properly
started and then churned makes ideal
butter, and makes it safe"
A Moses had risen up among the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-10

w P. Roseman of the University of
Wisconsin made these significant re-
marks: THE butter makers special
problem is to manufa cture the cream
that comes to the factory, perhaps
regardless of it's quality, but it must
be embarrassing to any butter maker
to recommend that barns he kept
clean and we'll ventilated when his
own creamery is not clean and we'll
ventilated"
The butter makers were beginning
to break through the ice of reserve
and had commenced to talk frankly
to each other.
Karl Jorgenson, of the Roselawn
Cooperative Creamery said: "Compe-
tition is the main cause for low
grade cream. In our own case we
have established rules that require
the cream separator to be washed
after use. The stables must be white
washed twice a year. The cream cans
must be free from rust and kept
clean. Tainted cream will no longer
be accepted at our creamery"
Jorgenson's words constituted a
hopeful, though mild. protest against
the indecencies of the butter business,
which up to this point were being
handled by the convention with kid
gloves.
Then came V. S. Keppel of Holman.
Wis. Keppel started something. He
spoke out in meeting. This is what
he said:
Legislation has been tried in the
matter of getting clean cream for the
butter maker, but has failed It
won't do. That the average quality
of butter to-day is not equal to the
past is evident. Each succeeding year
it becomes clearly more so. Poor
butter results from poor cream with
out fail. Good cream added to the
poor cream will not make the product
good product"
The butter makers knew all these
things all by themselves, but they
were beginning to talk about them to
each other in a voice slightly louder
than a whisper. 1t was a sign that
they were getting acquainted. More
was scheduled to follow, and it did.
B. d. White, a butter maker at Mil
waukee. then told the butter makers