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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-04-02
WOMEN TO GROW CROPS.
Sufragettes of New York to Offer Serv.
ices to Government

NEW YORK, April plans to or
ganize the women of New York state
to increase the food supply by inten-
sive home gardening and eliminating
waste were announced here tonight by
officers of the women S suffrage party
in connection with the offer Of its serv-
ices to the government in the event
Of war.
Mrs Ruth Lit. who for several years
has successfully managed her farm of
120 acres at East Patchogogue, L. T..
has been appointed chairman of com
mittce having this work IN charge.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-04-02
THE WEATHER.
Probably Rain Tonight. Warmer
Strong South Winds.

WASHINGTON. April . The
weather forecast: Probably rain to-
night, followed b. clearing Tuesday.
Somewhat warmer tonight. Fresh and
probably strong south winds, shifting
to west Tuesday.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-04-02
In Odd Fellows Temple

Monday, April ., 80 D. m.-Regular
meeting Of Wantastiquct lodge The
second degree will be conferred.
Tuesday, April 3, 7.30 p. m-Drill of
Rebckah degree staff. 1t is important
tint eyerN member be present
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-04-02
TURKS ON THE RUN.
Russians in Pursuit Have Occupied
Two TOWNS Recently.

PETROGRAD, April ,. via London
British admiralty report per Wireless
Press.-Russian troops moving west
ward from Kerind in Persia are ap-
preaching the Mesopotamian border,
continuing to drive the Turks before
them, TODAY s war Office statement in
dicates Two towns have been occu
pied by this column.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-04-02

Organization viii BE Rushed Through Rapidly as Pos
sibe, So That President Wilson May Deliver His Mes
sage, Which Was Sent to the Public Printer Early
This Morning
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-04-02

The photographer who can take I'M
natural pictures gets the most feminine
patronage.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-04-02

Give woman authority over a man
and she Will impose on him.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-04-02

A sure sign that YOU don t know
much is to think you know it all.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-04-02
TO RETURN TO VIENNA.
Ambassador Penfeld Believes His Alb
Sance will be Temporary

VIENNA. March 81, via London,
April 2.-Thc American ambassador,
Frederick G. Penfeld, confirmed today
the impression here that he expects to
return to Vienna as quickly as possible
after visit to Washington. He said
he might be gone for three months
His residence here viii be kept open.
The ambassador and Mrs. Penfeld will
depart on Wednesday or Thursday.
Whore there S viii there $ a lot Of
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-04-02

Where there 5 a will there $ a lot q
disappointed relations.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-04-02

Brattlcboro, April ,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-20
chronological

The largest flea in the world is Stanley
Muschamp, virtuoso. He weighs 200
pounds, is more than six rect tall, and
yet, after we had spotted him four differ
ent times in a small crowd disembarking
from a ferryboat yesterday morning, he
got away from us. We wanted to intro
duce him to a native of Ocean City who
had come up from the shore with us, but
whom we hadn't met at all when we were
on our vacation. The cool weather had
driven him away. But yesterday morn
ing he got on the train with us and
attacked us without provocationt We
slew him and tucked him into our largest
vest pocket--our old friend Amos Quito.
We wish to strike out a paragraph Of our
recent praise of Ocean City to insert this:
Some muSkcct8 are 1Oedb,
Some at least hare pity
But If such ye seek
o Shun OShuar CITY.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-20
OUR JUNIOR CITIZENS

TT HAD long been a fallacy, only lately
l. exploded, that for the first twenty
years and three hundred and sixty-four
days of his life a person should be a
political nincompoop. Boys and girls of
eighteen have made fine kings and
queens, and in less exalted ranks have
written brilliant essays on government
which not every voter in the Fifth Ward
could improve upon. But the mystic
notion that person under age" is a
civic zero has nevertheless prevailed
Mr.. Wilson's call to the pupils presents
the new ideal of citizenship. Part of a
schools work is a preparation for active
citizenship, and if this is neglected it is a
poor school. In no better way can the
junior citizens give their share to the
national effort than by working for the
Red Cross, as the President urges them
to do. There are many under age" in
the trenches; many boys of seventeen
and eighteen have given their lives for
country They were real citizens. So are
they who in this country toll for youth
abroad. where it is going through the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-20
THE ISSUE SIMPLIFIED

A NY ONE who can read between the
a lines must see that the war issue is
becoming more simplified every day Who
talks now Of Berlin-to- -Bagdad, Austrian
dismemberment, German colonies, free
dom of the seas, indemnities, the Dar-
danelles problem and all the other intri-
cate questions which a year ago were
supposed to require a program Of answers
before peace could be considered?
All these have been subordinated to
one chief question, the answer to which
will solve all the others. This question
is: How soon will the German people
undertake to govern themselves? A self
governing people does not want to annex
territory. It's one desire is internal de-
velopmeht. How difficult it was for our
imperialists TO make us believe for a few
years that we ought to own the Filipinos
body and soul. How hopeless was the
subtle propaganda that tried to make us
think we must inevitably conquer Mexico.
In Russia it was never the people who
wanted to annex land. 1t was the autoc.
racy which had ever to gain new regions
" IoN' " men NlilS Country becomes as
thickly populated per square mile as Ger.
many we shall overrun Canada and
Mexico, not as conquerors but as emf.
grants, The British autocracy Of the
eighteenth century became a trade autoc-
racy in the nineteenth, but even that
broke down. and the British subjects who
emigrate to the sef-governing Common
wealths allied to England lose their
identity as Brtons as much as il they
came to this country.
But the German autocracy tied a string
TO its emigrants, guaranteeing TO them re.
tention Of their German citizenship no
matter what other citizenship they ac.
quired abroad. Emigrants TO South Amer.
lea and to this country were stil to be
Germans, always ready to make the world
safe for Pan-Germanism. They and their
autocracy have managed to make the
phrase "Made-in- Germany" a trademark
very much like the April fool placard,
please kick me-" in its advertising ef.
fects.
So long as imperialists in Allied coun.
tries kept an eye on colonial expansion
as part of the expected fruits of victory
the issue was bound to be muddled. The
issue is simple now. The self.governine
republics, aligned with the Allies, guaran.
tee fair play to a German democracy and
eagerly await its arrival
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-20
THE RUSSIAN MIND
Curious Twists of the Modern Revolu-
tionary's Temperament

MOST strange things that are said by
1Nl brilliant men seem so because of a
duality of thought that lies behind them.
This ability to look at crises from two
angles is characteristic of all persons who
think but especially so of the cultured
Russian. We were talking the other eve
ming to such a man. He comes Of a high
and tested stock, and on that account we
were eager to hear what he thought of the
Russian situation. Being a Slav, he has a
way of putting complex matters in simple,
almost curt, phrases.
"Now it has come, the revolution" he
said in a clear, singing tone that was half
way between a sigh and a shout, 81 feel
somehow disappointed All their lives my
people have fought for this thing. And now
that it is here we have nothing more to
fight for. Sometimes when / reflect on the
revolutions effect on Russia l experience a
deep depression. For, after all, under auto
cratic authority the arts blossomed and bore
fruit. And it was wonderful. Now will
this continue under democratic regime =?
/ doubt it-sOmetimes. Will not all the tre-
mendous color and fire and contrast go out
of the national life? Will our dancing and
drama and painting lose their bright tints
and grow pale with the common-sense pallor
of democracy? Almost do feel that every
thing might go by the board five but pre-
served the pristine beauty of expression
in line and tone and hue
Some time later we met our Russian
friend. Needless to say, he was in a
different mood. Mood is to the Slav what
its triangular bits are to the kaleidoscope.
They shift and turn, but they are integral
parts of one toy We'll" asked one of us,
''how about those views on art and the
masses and the fall of the Romanoffs?
Have you changed your mind?'
The gentleman had not changed his mind.
Nor had his mind changed him. But his
spiritual Kaleidoscope had twisted a bit.
The shreds Of purple and green and
scarlet glass had fallen back into the rear
of the funnel, and the black of determine
ton and the white of ideality had come
forward
1t was then that he sprang his shock on
u.s. a shock to the Anglo-SaXon mind but
nothing which was not fine and true II
am going to drive an ambulance" was his
remark, delivered in cool tones that implied
that he had always held ambulance driving
to be among the essentials of everyday eX-
istence The small group gasped quietly.
Gospodn / went on: 1T will not be
easy this new plan of mine. l shall need
several thousand dollars. Just this moment
have eight cents in my pocket But it
will come, the money will be given me we
shall succeed gloriously"
Now, the point of this little story is that
Gospodin i is not a hypocrite or a
rhetorlcian, but just man who can look
on two sides of a question without losing
his head. He knows that 1t is good to see
beautiful dancing and the fiaring colors of
modern scenery and hear enchanting tunes.
And he knows that manly work, CHASTITY
work. is TO be done. That is why he is
going to do it. BID.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-20

he is public servant. His subordinates
know II, they know that he boasts Of Il,
they know what his concept Of the
ethics Of oficeholding is and they fol
low the example set. The police realize
what the Mayor stands for and what they
must stand for IL they are TO hold their
Jobs SO is the stage set and murder, at
the proper cue, stalks before the audience
unabashed
Should the Mayor be arrested? The
answer is that the Organization should
Aye, II should be arrested in all Of its
activities and all OF its functions. 1t is
revealed as an instigator of government
by murder. 1t has killed mems bodies
and it has killed mems souls. It has
blunted their consciences. 1t has put itself
beyond the pale. We say that it is a
system which can no longer be tolerated.
We say that the Mayor of Philadelphia,
Thomas b. Smith, the creature of that
for the frightful conditions of yesterday.
We say that citizens who have failed to
take the proper interest in battles for
civic decency are responsible. We say
that there is nothing left to do but
to rise up and smite the whole coterie
Of traftlckers who pillage and disgrace the
city. We say that this criminal Organiza-
ton, maintained for piiatical purposes
and engaged in piratical pursuits, must
be eXtirpated and driven out as Tammany
has been curbed in New York, and the
beginning of the work of extirpation must
be now. Let us cudgel the brute this
November and destroy him utterly two
years hence.
We can no longer endure government
by murder.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-20
SONG OF THE MOUNTAIN

Haze vou seen mn brother, the noun
tdinP
Hare you heard him bello,0 his son0'
old he Is,
Bold he is,
Ftred and true as gold he Is;
But mad Is n,y brother, the mountain,
And glad Is his nirthleSS song.
Ere ever this little world began,
l stumbled out of the sea;
Before the age of the earliest man,
The stars shone down on me.
I vomited lava and smoke and fire
On all that aroused my mighty ire.
And when of this race of men tire,
I'll tumble them down in the sea again.
I'll tumble them into the sea.
They builded their houses of stone and
wood,
Their cities that touched the sky;
They looked on their work and called 1t
good,
Forgetting that I was nigh.
But where have Rome and Athens
gone,
Nineveh. Tyre and Babylon?
So, when with their smiles and tears
I've done,
I'll tumble them down in the sea again,
I'll tumble them into the sea!
They plan their lives for a little span,
Less than hundred years;
They worry and fight, they laugh II they
can,
They struggle on through their tears.
They have little loves and little hates
In little novels with little mates
And little they know, when they bless
the fates,
I'll tumble them down in the sea again,
I'll tumble them into the sea!
UP from their windows they turn TO me
And find me ever the same;
They think I am dead. they cannot see
My passionate, inner flame
They tunnel me through and strip
me bare,
They vaunt their power with a POM
pous air,
Not knowing the day that my wrath
shall flare
Ana Tumble tnem uoWn In the sea again,
And tumble them into the sea!
I'll swoop on their cities that dot the
plain,
I'll smash all their temples and towers;
I'll dart my fire to scorch their grain,
Ny lava will wither their flowers
I'll show them that mountains are
stronger than they,
Older and mightier living for aye,
And then, when they bow before me
and pray
I'll tumble them down in the sea again,
I'll tumble them into the sea!
So belIol0s mn brother, the mountain,
So chants he MS ancient song.
Glad he Is,
Bad he Is,
WiItLI, t0iId and mad he Is.
Haze you heard my brother, the noun.
tdiHg
Take heed Of his dedthIess sonol
WILL LOU.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-20
Tom Days Column
THE ALL.RouND SPORT '

This sporting Hte Is neUer tame,
For once guy gets IN u
He finds the angles IN the game
Are changing eUery minute;
And he has got to knotD them all,
StiH hustlin0 and pursuing,
Through totnter, summer, spring and fall,
Wherever things are doing.
No,o, IN the spring, the nifty thing
Is sporty fishing tackle;
! handle that and tCisely chat
OF rod and creeI and hdckle.
Then summer brings the horsehtde ball,
Colt, tennis, quoits, canoeing;
And keep busy 1Cith them all
There's dllodvS something doing.
The hunting seasons drdtoin0 nigh
And footballs soon to folloto
see your lookl You tConder tchv
Ny chest should be so hollotc,
And 1Chdt to one so pale and thin
All this athletic art meant
Dear heart I'm Just a salesman IN
The Sporting Goods Department
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-20
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

1. General Luigi Cadorna IL EoneraIIsstme q
the italian armies.
2. Stuttgart is the capital Of wmttsmbyr
Germany, n kingdom In the southeastsn
part Of that country.
3. Three Of Ibsen's plays are "a Dolls House. =
"Hedda Gabler" and "ROsmcEsholm." !"
The dramatist was Norwegian.
4. The character OF Lady TeaEle" occurs IA
Shertdan's comedy. Tho School for Sesn-
daI."
5. California, Washington and Oregon are the
three States bounded on the west By the
Pacific Ocean.
8. Baton Rouge is the capital Of L0usiana.
7. A lama is q Buddhist priest Of Tibet A
llama is Peruvian beast Of burden.
8. The WitenagemOt was the Anglo Saxon 800.
ulaF assembly. which contained q germ o.
the modern Parliament.
o. "Baksheesh" means aims, The term .
used chiefly in Mohammedan countries.
10. The three types of thermometer are fahf-
enheit. Centigrado and ReaHmur'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-20
NEW YoRK'S NEW COLLECTOR A
POET

II the Hon. Byron Rufus Newton is nomi-
mated and confirmed as collector of this
port to succeed the Hon. Dudley Field Ma
lone who resigned for well-known reasons
of conscience, New York's Custom House
will not be the first establishment of the
sort which has sheltered an eminent man
of letters. 1t will be remembered that
Nathaniel Hawthorne served three years as
surveyor of the port of Salem, Mass.
We violate no confidence and we correct
many misapprehensions when we definitely
attribute TO the Hon. Byron Rufus Newton
the authorship of the immortal "Owed to
New York. production in which 1t seems
that both the Vitriolic spirit of Juvenal and
the reckless genius Of that other unterrified
poet for whom Byron Newton himself was
named had collaborated with him on this
occasion. The Subjoined lines in ceIeBra-
tion of this metropolis have been inac-
curately credited to other writer's:
Vulgar Of manners, overfed,
Overdressed and underbred.
Heartless. goddess, Hells delight,
Rude by day ahd lewd by night,
Bedwarfed the man, o'ergrown the brute
Ruled by Boss and prostitute.
Purple robed and pauper clad,
RSvingN rotting. money mad,
squirming herd in Mammon's mesh
A wilderness Of human fiesn,
Crazed with avarice. lust ana rum.
New York. thy names deiiriuml
We have seen variant versions az ~.
sixth line Autnpls|ee differ New YORK
sun
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-20

The Fourth Ward and not the Fifth
used to have the call for sangunary polit-
ical battles in the old days when Squire
McMullen was boss. The Democratic
caucuses always met then in a hall on
the second or third floor of some build
ing in the bailiwick. And once we asked
the Squire why. "Why?" said he that's
a foolish question. What would be the
good O. chuckin the kickers out the win
der if we wuz ony on the first fioor?"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-20

Now for the -Four" for the shore
and ven bet that some vet Of a ,"skeet''
there wiz meet us again when the train
ambles in. and will grin, yes. ana snort,
ana escort US back home in the sIoam.
Boyl run out and get us 4 oorpla
eellons ollropslla'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-20
The Accommodating Car

A business man from Montreal arrived
in this city yesterday afternoon greatly
concerned regarding the whereabouts Of
several members Of his family. one Of whom
had earlier in the day teegraphed him that
tanee north Of Plattsburg. for him TO come
here and help them out Of the dilemma
Plattsburg Press.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-20

Russia can survive more "chaoses''
than any country we ever heard of. It
has Mexico backed OFF the map.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-20

Were there not enough thugs in
that the supply of neighbor.
ng towns had TO be called on?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-20

WhX should railroads bother about
the taxicab companies7 It ought 10 be
quite q task to attend to their own busi.
ness IN these times.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-20

Mobs may have ruled Petrograd,
but they did not rule Kerensky. On a
certain historic occasion a mob tried TO
rule Napoleon.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-20

1t won't seem Ike a world series
with neither Philadelphia nor Boston in
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-20

As we said yesterday, the Bloody
Fifth" is thoroughly policed.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-20

More trouble for Careyensky in the
Fifth Ward
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-20

wet" end of the United States army sery.
ice is a side issue of the medical depart.
ment.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-20
Troops Made Fine Impression

A short time ago the American soldiers
marched through the streets of London
Their reception was tremendously good
But few people wondered how and why
II was that no battalion of Frenchmen.
weary with the dust and heat and blood of
Verdun, had been invited to parade through
these same streets. London has never seen
it's own regiments, not even the London
Scottish marching through her streets The
honor was given to us for many reasons.
For one thing, 1t showed England that our
troops were really here. For another. IL
made civilian England happy. 1t happened
that the first cheer which welcomed our
men came from a company of leave men,
Just coming out Of the station after a trip
from the firing line. 1 do not think that
the men who received that cheer are in
aug mood TO brag about what they will do.
one Of the first things General Pershing
did was TO issue an order of the day coun-
selling respect for France Is II impossible
10 instil into every man coming here some
thing of that respect. both for France
and for Britain? Is II impossible for us
10 realize that the impression the few make
can ruin the fairest prospect for interna-
tional friendship which the world has ever
seen?
For this, thing Is certain; The men who
are sensible and keep their heads, the men
who respect what our Allies have done and
are ready 70 take theft own place. to do
their Bit are precisely the ones who aay
nothing. We cannot make fhan speak
Can We make the others shut upY
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-01-19
PUTTING BUSINESS RIGHT
WITH THE PUBLIC

| "A few years ago some big industrial
organizations and certain railroads EN-
ployed business tactics which, accord
ing to the popular Idea. would make
the financial adventures of Pizarro
Morgan or Captain Kidd look as ana
flourish as the verbal exploits of Bobby
Make Believe.
| All are more or less acquainted with
the details. We will concede that there
were some glaring abuses, but the pub
| lie when 1t came TO apply q remedy ig-
| nOred the fact that these were peculiar
to comparatively few institutions and
instead Of tackling the trouble where
| 1t lay furiOusly asSailed everything
classifable as business-the trust mag
nate, the independent manufacturer
ready and anxious to obey the law, the
small retailer law abiding and use
full citizen-the innocent and the guilty
suffering alike. Seemingly the law was
| invoked not to regulate, bat to perse-
cute
There could be but one result. Bust
ness was demorafized, and the whole
country has felt the evil effects. Now
the public is besi9ueffg to realize its
error and In a rather grudging way is
making some concessions.
Business Is being permitted to spea'
| for itself. and movement has been l.
stjtuted by the leading business ere
of the country under the 1it,o 81 -
| National Industrial Conservation Move
ment for the purpose OF repairing
damage that has been done Notl
| revolutionary is contemplated. Tue
plan is simply to educate the public BY
| taking it into the business mans conf
dence. Meetings will be held in vari
Gus trade and industrial centers AL
classes of citizens will be invited. The
purpose of these meetings is TO give the
| public new and correct viewpoint as
10 the effects OF drastic legislation and
restriction of business on the prosper
ity Of the country. Every effort VII
be made to give the public clear view
of the problems and difficulties which
bcset business.
Special favOrs are not sought through
these meetings, only fair play. 1t is
believed that once the citizen grasps
the situation his whole attitude toward
business will change and that he will
| readily cooperate toward bringing
about letter conditions.
Conmercfakand other civic organiza
tons and the local press are already
showing great interest in this move
mcnt and it is reasonable to believe
that much good viii eVme from IT.
Industrial Conserrqtion. Y. Y.