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The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-11-20
Y. ). Government Asked To Give
Financial Aid To Industrial Housing

NeW York, Nov. Manufacturers
ana heads of big industrial concerns
are gradually realizing that it is as
important to house their workmen as
II is to house their machinery and it
is gratifying that the United States
government has been asked to give
financial aid to industrial housing"
Such is the opinion of Gerald Traf.
ford Hewitt of the British Garden Cit.
les and Town Planning Association,
VINO is now in this country. In
statement to The Associated Press
Mr. Hewitt thus briefly summarized
the spread Of this movement in Eu.
| rope:
This idea Of governmental aid in
industrial housing is nothing new.
very many countries have for years
assisted in the building of working
mems houses. In the United States
1t has been left to the mercies of the
real estate speculator with the result
that the working man has had to pay
eXhorbitant rents for bad housing and
worse environment If you have to
pay II per cent for money to build
workmens houses today instead of be
ing able to borrow it from the govern
mcnt at 4 per cent it means that the
rents have to be higher and the work
man has to pay.
THE most brilliant and extensive
example of housing reform achieved
anywhere is the building in Irelant
| during the last fifteen years Of 40,0O
| cottages through government aid.
| "In 1914, just before the war CON
menced, NJ. Lloyd George came fol
ward with the most comprehensiv
housing program ever announced
any responsible statesman This prt
gram, put forth officially as that {
the British government, was the pr,
posal to make a survey of urban an
= rural housing conditions throughol
u Great Britain and then, by cover,
ment loans at low interest, by COVER
II ment subsidies and by rent and was
commissions, to see that a constru
tive program of housing reform whit
shall supply the needs disclosed
/ this survey, even to the possible e
tent of building 100000 houses, nc
estimated to be needed shall be CO
ried out at cost estimated to exec
81 900 100000 Housing reform on
national scale has therefore become
matter of national policy in Gre
Britain.
"Quite apart from the natiol
housing program, there is the en-
nous housing reform that has TAX
place by British municipalities.
- 1864 Liverpool possessed the wo
. slums in England, but since that di
it has spent millions of pounds
eliminating its soul-destroying slu
and rehousing its citizens n mo
tenements and cottages. The de-
rate has been reduced from 67 to
"a thousand Before 1910 typhoid
er was never once absent in the yes
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-11-20
How The u. S.
Sailors In Europe
Spend Their Time
(By Associated Press.)

Base American Flotilla in British
Waters, Nov. 19.-Tramps through the
beautiful Irish countryside are the
favorite autumn pasttime Of American i
sailors on afternoon shore leave.
The Americans never saw so many
pigs in their lives as they have since !
they began to wander around Ireland.
Up one of the favorite country roasd
they have become fast friends with
an Irish farmer who has remarkable
squad of trained pigs. Whenever the
sailors visit his farmyard the owner
delights in running his pigs through
a number of evolutions just to make
the sailors laugh. The farmer is very
fond of the youngful Americans. To
one party which called the other day
he presented tiny porker which they
took squealing back to their ship and
adopted as their mascot. One tripe
at sea, however, made Piggy so sea-
sick that he turned over to the chef
and made the centerpiece at a roast
pig dinner, the like of which the boys
have not had since leaving the shores
of the United States.
Bicycling has gained tremendous
vogue with the American blue Jackets.
Scores of them, mounted on machines
of all possible types and vintages, may
be passed daily on the roads leading
out from the naval base. The bicy-
/ cles are rented from local dealers at
, about $3.50 to So week. Many of
: the sailors have pedaled all the way to
l Blarney Castle, while others have ven,
t tured as far as the Lakes Of Killarney
l They ride through the streets here
0 at what the natives characterize as
t reckless speed"
z Several Of the bluejackets are form
Q er professional or semi-professiona
o cyclists who have competed in long
il distance contests in many parts Of thu
h United States and they like nothing
D better than spin Of 20 or 25 mile'
3, over good roads to be found in thi'
II part of Ireland.
If The blackberry season is at it
n height now and the American sailor
1t have joined with the natives in gath
t. ing thousands of quarts from tn
le hedgerows along the roads.
g. The American sailors have caused
boom in the broiled lobster and oyste
ye business of this port. Neither
n these foods has ever been popula
"a with the Irish people, although the
or are available in large quantities an
nd at low prices:
w. a photographer has just made Il
mt rounds of the destroyers and on eat
Ial of them has taken group pictures
m. the officers and men, The phot
ne grapher was sent over by the Britis
81 Admiralty, which knows how the sa
ial or loves to be snapped" Copies
MS the photographs are sold to the sa
de ors at cost price.
it, The photographer, just before col
to ing to the Americans here, had taxi
ac- photographs from seaplane Of Il
he damage done to Zeebrugge, Ostel
ity and other German submarine bases
ms British airmen. He has won gre
popularity among the Americans, vi
I'VE look forward to his further visits wi
asst much pleasure.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-11-20


has not been a case. tuberculosis de-
clined from to 1 per thousand, and
police precautions for crime have
been reduced 70 per cent. The cash
saving to Liverpool under their re-
housing policy is estimated at $780,
900 a year. or double the cost of pro-
viding decent homes for working men.
"In Birmingham, as far back as in
1875 the late Joseph Chamberlain
realized what a sound investment
municipal housing was and at an ex-
penditure of over $15,000,000 Birming-
ham was cleared of its slums, and this
housing reform has proved an excel
lent investment for the municipality
and has more than paid back the orig
inal IL per cent bond issue cre-
ated to carry out this work.
"The London County Council has
raised money for years past at rates
varying from to per cent to pro-
vide homes for working men and their
families. Some idea of tn emagnitude
Of the work undertaken by the council
is shown by the fact that they house
over 10000 people, and the gross an
nual rentals collected amount to
over 81, 1,250,000. Just before the war
started they were planning further
housing involving an expenditure OF
$17,0OO,000 This is all the result OF
20 years of hard work and housing
education.
"In addition to the government and
municipal housing. there is great
record of private enterprise such as
the house built by the various CO
partnership tenant societies which IL
the past thirteen years have bull
over 10000 houses, with land ant
/. buildings valued at over $42,OOO,OO'
and all the different estates laid on
!, on Garden City and Town Planninl
=. lines. There are about fifty Of thes
estates, varying in size from t
1000 acres, and comprising tota
area of about $4,000 acres. Of whic
only about 5000 acres have been dt
:, veloped, with over $4,000 houses
:. representing a capital investment
:. $17,0OO,0O0. A large proportion
:. all this money for housing has bee
loaned by the British government
:, low rates of from IL to per cen
and this aid has been largely til
cause of the successful housing r
:. suits achieved In England.
"Other European countries ha,
:, not been slow to recognize that l
dustrial housing is national oblig
ton. The city Of Stockholm Il
=. some years has been building al
:. financing houses for its workme
- Frankfort nthe-Main has spe
+. many millions of dollars on industri
no housing and when the war CO.
II, menced it had just started scher
a., for a new harbor at an outla yOf III
81 100000 which included a substant
NJ. appropriation for working mel
-, houses. The city of Ulm has ma
provision to ensure that all its ci
: zens shall have the opportunity
- live in improved homes. 1t has
| ouired eighty per cent. OF all
! available building land in the C
/ limits to sell or lease to its citize
| on easy terms for buildings homes
/ mo less than 10000 homes ha
| been built in Hungary within the Ii
! few years by aid Of governmt
loans. In italy the problem of no
/. ing reform has received the attent
| of the government for many years
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-11-20
TAX NOTICE.!

| have issued executions on all
unpaid personal taxes, and have ap-
pointed Mr.. E. II. Garland of Lake
land. Fla, as my deputy to collect
same, he will collect both taxes and
costs. The law prescribes that the
deputy may collect the following
costs: "On amounts of less than IS
taxes, his fee shall be fifty cents; on
amounts of over S. and less than
$40 taxes, his fee shall be Is cents:
and on amounts over $40 taxes he
shall receive a fee of one dollar"
]. P. MURDAUGH,
$3.50 Tax Collector.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-11-20

A.H.T. Cigars are the best and they
only cost 5 cents Ask for them.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-12
OUR DUTY TO INTERFERE.
Four Minute Talk in a Sioux Falls
Movie Theatre.

About fifteen years ago in the city of
Winfield, Kan, where | lived mans
mind went wrong. While a great throng
filled the intersection OF two main streets
listening to the music OF the band this
man, thinking he owned the earth and had
right to kill people, stepped from dark
alley and with a repeating gun opened fire
on the public. In a moment many fell
diving or wounded, while the others fled to
places of safety. The man kept up his
fire every person that stirred. Finally
colored Waterman located him and
crawling up the dark alley, sent a bullet
through the maniac brain. In such
case man would be justified in shooting
his own father in the interest of public
safety
Now imagine the people far out on the
edges of town saying: I'VE do not be-
lleve IN interfering with that downtown
affair We have our folks at home and
we believe they ought to stay: besides,
many Of those folks needed killing, and
the rest had no business down there.
Then suppose that some OF these suburb
jewellers began to harangue against the
ones that We're going to the rescue and
tried to intimdate them
Three years ago great ruler mind
went wrong, due to a false philosophy OF
forces which had obsesscd the minds Of
its chief men. This nation stepped out
OF the shadow and began to shoot down
the people In its obsession it attacked
the very foundations of human liberty
The friends Of democracy are trying tC
throttle this maniac. Shall we who liv,
on the outer edges daily: Shall we say
these people need killing? That our people
have no business on the seas! That W.
shall intlmidate those who are goingy ID,
we not yet see that should this crazy mar
kill off those now fighting he will thel
come for us? My fellow citizens, the tim,
has passed for debate and trifing. | hat
to see noble horse htched and workin,
grandly, being continually stung by coward
lfy gnats and flies People who impede tn
national mobilization of our people do no
deserve the protection Of democracy.
We are no longer nation, we are al
army hundred million strong Let ever,
man and woman and child 60 to the from
or go to work to produce food, to conscrv
/ it, to give himself his property and hi
honor for the mobilization of our natiol
and answer as answered in the civ
war: We are coming, father Abraham, "
are coming, a hundred thousand strong
We do better and say to or grea
, chiettain, President Wilson: I'VE al
coming Woodrow, we are coming,
hundred million strong. Sioux Fall
Press.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-12

Vermont Organization Prepares to Car
~ Out Hoover S Plans.

MONTPELIER, Sept. II, National
Food Commissioner Hoover has appointed
Gov H. f. Graham Mrs J. +. Weeks of
Middlebury, Frank f. Langley of Barre,
#. H. Brooks Of ST. Johnsbury and Judge
|G. NJ. Powers of Morrsville as executive
committee on food conservation IN Yer
mont They met yesterday with the Yer
mont food commissioner, James Hartness
of Springfield, and, having mapped out
their work, appointed state committee
of IA persons whose names will be an
nounced by the director Of publicity,
John I. Cushing, after they have accepted
the appointments
Mrs. Weeks has appointed one woman
from each county to be associated III the
work of food conservation. They are:
Mrs. j. A. Fletcher of Mlddlebury Mrs.
+. b. HuGng of Bennington, Mrs. H. i.
Folsom of Lyndonvile, Mrs {. II. Darling
of Burlington, Mrs A. J. Newman Of
I.unenburg, Mrs r NJ Pelton Of Franklin,
| Mrs. b. L. Robinson Of Grand Isle, Mrs
Harriet Ide Of Morrisville, Mrs d. 5
Conant of Bradford Mrs. r. II. Cutler OF
Barton Mrs Nellie Crowley of Rutland
Mrs. G.. H. Smile of Montpelier, Mrs
Stella p. Flint of Woodstock, Mrs. War
ner A. Graham of Bellows Falls.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-12

Strike of Freight Handlers Causes Tie
Up of Kansas CITY.

KANSAS CITY, Sept. l2-The strike
of freight handlers practically had
stopped freight traffic on five railroads
here and threatens to interfere with a
sixth.
AS a result of the walkout of approx
mately five hundred freight handlers,
three roads, Chicago & Alton, the Chi
caeo, Rock Island & Pacific, and the
Missouri. Kansas & Texas are doing
little business, and the Wabash & Mis-
souri, Pacific admits a complete tie-up.
w. II. Herbig agent of the Rock Is
land, said that the roads were waiting
to hear the strikers demands before
starting negotiations, no demands hav-
ing been presented.
The strike of 800 employees of
Wilson G. Co., packers, and the ar
rival of Patrick +. Gill, representing
the Cancellation bureau of the depart
ment of labor, were the only develop
ments in the strike Of approximately
5000 packing house workers III Kansas
City, Kansas, yesterday. The strike
has caused tie-up in large war orders
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-12
RAY-LYONS WEDDING.
Former Brattleboro Man Takes Bride in
Quebec

The announcement reached Brattle
boro today of the marriage in Quebec
Saturday of Miss Marie Kenyon Lyons
and Oscar Willard Ray, Boston bust
ness man, formerly of this town Miss
Lyons is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Honore b. Lyons of Flatbush, Long Is
land, and has been associated with
Vogue for several years She is grad
uate of Adelphi college, New York. Mr..
Ray is a nephew of Mrs. O. L. Rawson Of
Washington street and is a graduate of
the Brattleboro high school and of Nor
witch university. He formerly was en-
pl0vcd in the Goodnow syndicate store
here. Before going to Boston he was
located in New York.
The ceremony took place i'll the par
Tors of the Chateau Frontenac, and was
performed by Rev. Andrew Tannahill
Love, d. D., rector of St Andrew 5
church, Quebec. Mr.. and Mrs. Ray are
spending most Of this week at Quebec,
and later will go to the camp of the
Kedgcmakoo Rod and Gun club. which
is 30 miles in the forest from Annapo.
lis, Nova Scotia. On their return to Bos
ton Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Will spend the
fall in Milton.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-12
NURSES VIEWS OF SHORTAGE.
The Lack Of Them is Real and the Prob
lem Will Grow.

In the course of editorial comments on
the shortage OF nurses which is already
here, or is impending on account OF the
war, the nurses organ, The Nurse. says:
I'VE have become so accustomed TO
reading of a shortage of everything that
the recent statements in medical and
nursing journals announcing a widespread
shortage OF nurses will be accepted as only
another OF the war-caused changes of the
nation which requires readjustment. Med
zeal editors ascribe the lack of a sufficient
number of nurses to meet day-to-day re.
quirements to the drain made by the
Army Nursing Corps and the Red Cross
base hospitals. Other writers think the
condition due in large measure to the
withdrawal from the field of private
nursing of the 5000 nurses engaged in pubs
| lie health nursing or welfare work
| But whether the number who are now
already engaged in war nursing is large
enough to have caused shortage, 1t Il
clear that as Americas participation in
the war increases there will follow a with
dTawal of nurses from civil life which viii
cripple the medical care OF the people and
which will have to be met by recruiting
the nursing ranks.
/ Following the examples of West Point
and Annapolis, the hospitals might grad
uate their classes before the expiration
OF the full term of training This, how
ever, is not TO be expected As the out
put OF hospital nurses cannot be increased
within three years, these institutions are
helpless so far as a source of immediate
recruiting is concerned Manifestly, the
shortage will have to be met by an IN
crease in the nurses OF non-hospital
training,
The organized nursing bodies OF the
r country have done nothing to meet the
dearth of nurses, which will inevitably
increase as the war continues. Hospital
and nursing organizations for years have
discussed the problem of providing a
f secondary class OF nurses by method less
exacting and brefer than the hospita 3
training nurses whose wage rate would
be less burdensome upon the patient
than the rate justly asked by their more
highly trained sisters
But SO far the campaign has been on
of discussion only nothing has actually
, been done. And now the country find !;
itself confronted by a shortage of nurses
! which the hospitals and nursing organiza
, tions are powerless to meet and depend
, ent upon on-bospital methods Tor
equipping the many new recruits the
. nursing world must receive If the civilian
sick and the soldiers are to receive adj
. equate care.
Call the reason for the failure to rec
+ ognize and accurately grade a secondary
1 class of nurses what you like-trade
! unionism, ultra professionalism. or nuls-
. ing ethcs-the situation is very real one,
, and one that the public will solve in itz
own way by employing the best nurse it
i finds at hand irrespective of the sourc.
= of her knowledge and training
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-12
To Stop Auto Thievery.

An of the makers, sellers, and buyers
of motor cars, toget Ter with the county :
chemists and sellers Of windshield glass.
must combine against the auto thief il
motor car thievety is TO be abolished, ac-
cording to G. C. kilbuIy OF the Toledo
Automobile club His idea is to place,
by chemical process, the serial number Of
the car and the name OF the owners home
town upon the windshield glass. and that
each owner should carry card bearing
his name. address, and the serial number
Of his car.
Identification marks upon the metal or
wooden parts OF the car may lie removed
or altered but not so with those upon
glass; which must be broken or removed.
Hcnse car with plain or broken glass
would excite suspicion. The glass seller
plays his part when he is asked to sell
windshield glass to a man who cannot
prove ownership of the car for which the
purchase Is made
Mr. kilbury admits that there are mum
erous arguments against his plan. and that
to put it into operation would he a mon
umental task, bat he states that present
defects can be ironed out, and asks thai
the plan be given discussion in the various
auto clubs of the country.
Bountiful rice crops are expected il
the consular district of Swallow, China
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-12
CHAPLAIN SURE FOUNDATION
His Pulpit Includes Boxes Once Filled
With Scotch Whiskey

LONDON, Sept l.. - A Scottish regi-
mental chaplain who was arranging for
service at the front induced the sol
diers to prepare a temporary rostrum.
1t was constructed quickly, being built
mostly of empty ration boxes. When
the service began the chaplain an
nounced as the opening hymn The
Church s Sure Foundation
The proceedings were interrupted by
a hurricane of laughter, and the chap
lain, unable to proceed, went down
among his congregation to inquire the
cause The soldiers pointed out that the
most prominent of the boxes constituting
the pulpit bore the familiar legend:
Johnnie Walker Whiskey, Born 1920
Still Going Strong
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-12
TWO COUPLES IN TROUBLE.
Judge Dickens at Middlebury Fixes
Efil for Elopss.

MIDDLEBURY, Sept. l2.-Mrs. Mary
Sears aud James Julius Of Ferrisburg,
George Cahoon Of Wallingford and Mrs.
Alice LaNaller of Clarendon were
brought before Judge 4. W Dickens
yesterday morning on warrant issued
by State 5 Attorney 4. K. Sturtevant
on q statutory charge. The hearing
lasted well into the afternoon After
hearing the evidence, Judge Dickens
held the four in the sum of $500 each
for appearance at the December term
of county court. Three Of the quartet,
after clipping from Ferrisburg, were ar
rested by Deputy Sherif1s n j. Sanford
and Edward Higgins last week in Poult
ney and Rutland, brought to Middle
| bury and lodged in the county Jail.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-12
Why Work

Webster devotes a lot of perfectly
good dictionary space to the fact that
the verb "work = means to exert
one s self to attain an object.
Well, the definition is all right as far
as it goes; but what Is the object!
Some work for the pleasure of the
thing; others like to keep their minds
occupied; few don t know how 70 be
idle. Most of US, however. unhesitat-
inglv admit that we work to live. It
takes tangible coin of the realm to buy
bread and shoes for dad, mother and
the little ones, these DAYS.
But the other day the observer saw
a man who actually was 50 ashamed of
being found at honest labor that he fell
all over himself apologizing. He had
not always been in such straitened cir
cumstances, and when discovered earn
ing his daily bread by the sweat of his
brow, he rummaged his brain for a
good excuse.
He had lot of old clothes that he
Just wanted to wear out, don t YOU
know. columbus Dispatch.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-12
HAYWOOD HANDLES BIG SUM.
Books Of I. w w. Headquarters Show
100000 Used in Seven Months.

CHICAGO, Sept. II. Search of the
records Of the Industrial Workers Of the
World seized here in last week s federal
raids has revealed that the Chicago Of
fee Of the organization distributed
100000 between January l and August
/, OF this year. The government officials
We're informed that this money was
handled H. William S. Haywood, c&ccu-
tive secretary.
The books also show that the member
ship is approximately 10000 and that it
has increased approximately one thou
sand per cent in three years.
The entries and disbursements indi
Gated that they We're mainly for - de
Tense purposes, printing literature and
publishing newspapers.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-12
PLEA FOR CORRESPONDENTS.
Representative Gallivan Would Like to
Have Them with Troops.

WASHINGTON, Sept. T. = Repre-
sentative Gallivan of Massac husetts
yesterday asked Secretary Baker to
cable Maj. Gen. Pershing TO reconsider
his objection to having newspaper cor
respondents accompany units of Ameri-
can troops that soon will be going to
France. He told the secretary that the
newspapermen were not asking to 60 to
the front or to describe battles or cam
paigns but to go with their state troops
SO as to let tie folks at home know
how they Were getting along.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-12
Eod cling the Draft.

! bury Negro who registered in one Of
the fourth ward precincts OF Oklahoma
City was anxious to escape military sery-
lcc Some one had evidently told him ct
some of the things that would exempt
h'm. The questions and answers on his
card we've az follows;
How old are YOU
Abs most thutty-one'
When were YOU born
Nh dun' 'zactls remember, boss
Are YOU natural born citizen
Ah don think So.
Nv ere You bonn IN the nited Statcs?'
No, sir Ab was born in Texas
Have YOU any ono dependent on youg
Yes, sir
Who are they" 'E-
Ah don rightly know, sir Abs got
lots OF relations. -Everybodys Maya
zine.
Tho sewing machine was given to the
! country IN 1916.