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The Butte daily post. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1913-1961, 1917-11-12
The Decisive Issue.

mink that in order to realize just
" this moment Of counsel is, It is
desirable that we should remind
feiVes just how this war came
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and NOTWITHSTANDING the fact that the
do not wish in their pride and props
spirit of nationality to be absorbe
and dominated"
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CONTINUED on Tage Seveu)
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WEATHER FORECAST

MONTANA-Partly cloudy east. rain or
snow west portion tonight; TUESDAY part
ly cloudy. colder east Of divide
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Germany's Progress.

I'VE boast OF inc eAtIaoI uIIIaIy I,-- I,-ee
(Coptinued on fage Eighth
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|EATHER FORECAST

Re Tonight: Snow.
row: Colder.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-29
TRANSPORTATION SERVICE.
Red Cross Has Assurance of Cargo Space
for European Supplies

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29-To handle
the vast quantities of medical and re-
lief supplies now being shipped almost
daily to the Red Cross commission for
Europe to aid the stricken peoples of
France, Belgium, Serbia, Russia and 9TH
er belligerant countries, the establish
ment of Red Cross transportation serv-
ice is announced by the Red Cross war
council.
This new branch Of Red Cross activi-
ties has been made possible through
the cooperation of the French, British
and Italian governments, the United
States Shipping Board and the leading
steamship and railroad companies. Pres
dent Wilson has taken a personal inter
est in the establishment of this service
His aid and that of Chairman Edward
n. Hurley, of the shipping board, form
erly member of the Red Cross wa
council, have been invaluable to it!
success.
Practically all the cargo space needed
for the shipment of Red Cross supplie
abroad has now been placed at the dis
posal of the war council. Much of i
has been given free by the STEAMSHIP
companies and the allied governments
This will only be used for supplies mos
urgently needed obroad.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-29

Eleven clock on the night of Satur-
day, Sept. s, is the time fixed by the
food administration when all processes
in the production in the United States
of distilled spirits for beverage pur
poses must stop. The 30-day period al
lowed from the approval of the food
control law expires at midnight Sept
9, but this date falls on Sunday and in
ternal revenue laws prevent the opera
ton of distilleries after IL clock Sat
urday night.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-29
Little Benny's
Note Book
By LEE PAPE
By LEE PAPE

Mr.. Parkins came to see my sister
Gladdis after suppir yestiddav, bringing
a buntch of violetts with him, and prit
ty soon him and Gladdis started to tawk
loud in the parler and Mr.. Parkins
went rite out agen and slammed the
frunt door. WITCH he hadent hardly did
1t wen Gladdis throo the buntch of
violetts out the parler window, me set
ting on the frunt steps and seeing 1t
come flying out and land in the street.
G., good violetts, l thawt. And |
went and picked them up and took them
in the house, and Gladdis was still in
the parler, and | sed, Hers your VIC
let's, Gladdis.
And | reetched them out to her and
she grabbed them mad as enything and
throo them out the window agen, saying,
| If YOU wood mind your own bizniss once
in your life, everybody wood drop ded
frum serprize.
Then its good thing I don't do it,
| sed.
And I went out and picked the VIC
let's up agen and sat on the frunt steps
holding them, and Jest then grandpop
came up, saying, Watts you got there,
violetts? Let me smell EN-.
And he took them and smelled them
out loud, and | sed, Wy don't you take
them in the parler and give them to
Gladdis, grandpop, shes in there.
/ That's good ideer, sed grandpop.
And he took them in, me following him
and as soon as he saw Gladdis he sed
Good evening, Gladdis, heers a nice
buntch of vio'etts for you. Well, amt
you going to take them?
Wich she took them, and grandpop
sed, Well, wat on erth are you staring
at me for, body mite think 1 stole
them. Cant you even say Thank you
Thank you, I'm sure, sed Gladdis. Say
ing it as if she ment sumthing elts jest
Iopposite, and she slammed them down on
the parler table and went up stairs mad
as enything, and grandpop went up IL
the setting room to see pop and ma and
/ took the buntch OF violetts GROUND
and gave them to Mary Watkins, not
telling her they had bin throwed in the
street twice.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-29
MONEY FOR THE WAR.

How to tap the national resources so
that they may be available in steady
stream for the financial burdens of the
war is the difficult problem which con
fronts Congress. 1t is natural that
there should be differences of opinion
with regard to the best method for
working it out. At the best the future
will have to be mortgaged, for by no
possibility can the current outlay be
met by revenue from taxation. The
larger the income from taxation. bv
so much will the issue of bonds be re-
duced The bigger the bond issues are,
by so much can the government refrain
from levying on the wealth and re-
sources of the country.
This is practically the question at is
sue over the war revenue bill which is
now being considered in the senate. A
large group of senators under the leader
ship of Senator Borah are fighting for
an so per cent tax on corporation wal
profits. The senators on the other side
are for smaller tax at the present
time. The 50 per cent senators are fol
the immediate plunge into the cold
water, the others would prefer the grad
ual approach before going in all over
War profits in England are apportioneC
on the basis of four-ffths for the gov
eminent and one-ffth for the privat,
enterprises. The appropriations for wa
purposes by Congress have been enor
nous, and from all quarters requests 70
more are pouring in. The figures ar
staggering. One thing seems to be al
solutely sure. The requirements of tn
government Will be so tremendous a
to preclude the possibility of anybody
pocket being excessively fattened fror
the manufacture of munitions of wa
The days of kiting for the industria
stocks on Wall street are over. TIL
era of wild speculation in these stock
ended when the government began t
consider how to get war revenue.
is conceded even by those who oppos
an 50 per cent tax on war profits {
| the present time, that it may have
\ come TO that. The government is M
/ going to be satisfied with a $3.50 basi
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-29

The hero of Clarence B. Kelland s
story, The Source, now running in the
Saturday Evening Post, is a city man
who awakes from a drunken stupor to
find himself ON his way to a Vermont
lumber camp. Perhaps some of the read
ers of Mr.. Kelland s tale had the i'm
preston that he resorted to magma
tion in describing the lengths to which
employment agencies go in securing
man-power for the lumber companies,
but he didn't. Only few days ago
a man who had been through the same
experience as Mr.. Kelland's character
was in Brattleboro looking for an OPP
portunity to earn money enough to get
him back to New York.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-29

Did He Make. dark spots, and
they had been lying in some dry
leaves.
The whippoorwills guard their young
If danger Is near, but when they are
little eggs they are not sheltered by
a home-nest-the ground does we'll
enough for them.
Perhaps Mother Whippoorwill thinks
it is mistake to begin by spelling her
children, but she is not hard-hearted
mother, as this would seem. No, she
is always ready to defend them from
enemies.
Now, Mr.. Whippoorwill is about the
size of robin, but he looks longer be-
cause he has great, long wings. He Is
| covered with reddish-brOwn feathers,
and sometimes grayish-white. He has
a fine white collar and his quilts are
| decorated with white He has bristleS
| all about his beak, which is very large.
Mrs Whippoorwill is just about the
same in looks, except she has tan
collar instead of white one, and her
| tail is tan, too.
One night-for the whippOorwillS
love the nighttime, a boy thought he
would like to catch q whippoorwill and
have him for pet. He loved the won,
derful song Of the whippo0rwill-
which is q beautiful, rather sad note
The whippoorwills only sing when
away from people, and they love t
be by themselves. That is why they
choose their homes where people viii
not come.
At first the boy heard the whip
poorwills singing their sad, lovely nOtt
over and over again. Then he triet
to catch them, but they fly off SO 81
lently he could not do it.
In the daytime they were always
asleep, and no one could have fount
them, because their wings look lik'
the rocks in color.
But one night he caught Mr.. Whip
poorwill. "Ah," he said, Il will b
very good to you. You may have
big place to fly about In. for hav
! made 1t with wire in the yard. An
you will have a little home of you
| own. 1 will not keep you in SINAI
cage. That would be cruel"
The little boy hadn't thought tina
1t would be cruel to keep the whiI
! poorwill In any way-the bird VIII
loves solitude-or being alone.
+ At night he listened to hear hi
8 whippoorwill sing, but never a SCUM
did he make Then he thought it We
= because Mr.. Whippoorwill was wit
out his mate, and after q long tin
+ he caught Mrs. Whippoorwill.
p Now he would surely have the 81
5 rious whippoorwill singing every ev
u ming, he thought.
But not a sound did he hear.
fact they seemed to have forgott'
their note-they had left 1t behind
the woods.
= You see, the whippoorwill will +
sing IN captivity. He is utterly mi
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-29

cradle then, and he longs to be back
where he can be alone and away from
creatures. Then, at night, when it is
quiet and dark, we can sometimes hear
his glorious note.
The boy did not know what to
make of it, but at last he let them
go. Oh! The Joy of spreading their
wings towards the dark woods! How
wonderful it was! And to see the
whippoorwill children! To feel the
dark, cool woods, to sleep all day, to
work all night.
For the whippoerwills do great
deal of good work They catch bad
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-29
WAR EXPERTS FOR u. S. ARMY.
French and British Officers to Teach
French Fighting.

WASHINGTON, August 2S-A group
.of French ca British army officers, spe-
Icialists in various details of trench war
fare, will be- attached to National Guard
and national army camps under plans
worked out by the war department to
expedite training troops for special con-
ditions they will meet at the front
The French and British governments
have been asked to detail officers, and
probably eight or ten will be assigned to
each of the 81 camps.
The foreign officers will not come in
direct touch with the American troops.
The training will be done entirely by the
American officers of the companies. regi-
ments or brigades, but the American
officers will have the opportunity of con
sulting with their foreign associates
who have had actual experience at the
| front with control of artillery fire, bomb
ing attacks, machine guns and coordinat-
ing movements of infantry units in at
tack or on defensive operations.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-29

If it is true, as resident who re-
Gently left that country claims, that
Austria is literally crying for peace,
has discarded any thought of territorial
expansion and is willing to buy its way
out of the war by territorial sacrifices
on the italian front, it would not be
surprising if Emperor William were con-
fronted with difficult problem to main
tain friendly relations with his chief
ally, to say nothing of making a salts
factory peace with his enemies
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-29

The Reforluer is an sale every evening
by the following news dealers:
Brattleboro. Brattleboro News 90.
G. w. Cleaveland. ID. r. Cutler & Co.
tEsteyvllle), Brooks House Pharmacy
Aliens Depot Newsstand.
West Brattleboro, J. L. Stockwell
East Dummerston. NJ +. Brown
Putney, NJ. G.. Williams
Newfane, y. NJ Batchelder.
Townshend, G.. w. Cutler.
West Townshend, G. II. Grout.
Jamaica, Il. J. Daggett
South Londonderry, f. H. Tyler
South Vernon, Z. Il. Buffum.
west Chesterfield, NJ. H., Mrs W
Streeter
Hinsdale. N. H., w. IT. lyman.
Bellows Falls, VT. Depot Restaurant
Windsor, VI, Windsor Restaurant.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-29

At this time every American boy
should be made to see the Importance of
finishing his school or college course
the war. In the coming years the ma
ton will have need as never before OF
all the trained men it can get
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-29
TO SUBSCRIBERS

II is the aim of the management to
secure efficient service in the delivery of
the paper each night, and it solicits the
cooperation Of subscribers to that end
Prompt reports should be given of each
failure to receive the paper on the morn
ing following the omission, in person
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 publisher can Sc
cure the desired service
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-29
Hetty Green Heirs.
Barre Times.

Collectors of Vermontana will await
with interest the publication of book
by a benefactress of the late Mrs. Hetty
Green, formerly of Bellows Falls. The
authoress, Sylvia Ann Rowland, has Sc
lected as her title, "Hetty Green
Heirs The romance of big fortune
made in the whaling industry and re
leased by Mrs. Green death for dis
tribution among nearly $50 heirs of the
trust estate should make excellent read
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-29

Brigadier General Edwards has modi-
fed the ban of news pertaining to
troops of the Goth division now that
practically all of them have reached
their mobilization camp. He is willing
that the papers publish items of human
interest concerning the camp life pro-
vided nothing is said as to the number
of men there and no information is Civ
en- out concerning the movement of
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-29

my note. I left it in the woods behine
me-"
SO did l." said Mrs. Whippoorwill.
And to their great delight they found
their notes again-they had Just been
quiet deep down in their Threats, for
they had left the woods, and their
little bird hearts had been too sad for
singing. The children joined in too.
And the boy heard them all.
"They sing now" he said. "They
don't like to be caught" And how
glad the Whippoorwills were that the
boy understood.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-29

insects when they
are flying. The
whippoorwills en-
JOY eating the in
sects for break
fast and dinner,
and they do away
W i t h in S e C t S
which would in
jure trees and
shrubs.
"Ah," said Mr..
W h poor will,
when he was
b a k IN the
woods, Il must
SEQ if T caD find
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-29

Those delightful descriptions of Char
lotte, n. c., furnished by the enter
prising board of trade of that city,
have less interest for New England
readers now that it appears that few
if any troops from this section are to
go into the southern training camp.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-29
Impossible to Please.

$50 you don't like Harold, dad?
questioned pretty Hilda. ''No, he ap-
pears to be capable of nothing, re-
turned dad. E'But what objection have
you to Billy?" she pouted sob, he =
worse than Harold. He strikes me as
being capable of anything. Puck.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-29

troops toward seaports. Under this rul-
ing, which seems to be an eminentlv
fair one, New Englanders will be able
to read of what their soldier boys are
doing at Westield for a little while at
least.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-29
White Satin
Flour
WE SHALL MAINTAIN THE QUALITY
The Burning Question

Costs, labor, materials,
service, everything is going
up. Unless prices or quality
change, profits will shrink
and losses follow.
Shall old prices be main
tanned with quality lowered
or shall quality remain the
same and prices be raised?
Leaders everywhere are
following one course-main-
tanning the quality and rails
ing the price,-the common
sense American business
way.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-29

The first step toward fixing the re
sponsibility for the brutal murder of
little Alice Bradshaw of Lyndon seems
to have been taken in holding without
bail the two women charged with the
crime
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-29

What with the early blight, late
blight scab, etc, it begins to look as
if the farmer who was worrying for
fear it wouldn't pay to dig his potato
crop wasted lot of unnecessary mental
energy.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-29

Back from an exile of nearly four
years in the far north, Explorer Mac
MILAN has some job ahead of him to
catch up with the war news.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-29

people S e | d o m
went, lived Mr..
and Mrs. Whip
poorwill and the
two small Whip
poorwill children,
who only a short
time ago had been
little eggs. They
had been creamy
white eggs with
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-29

And now it's Collier 5 Weekly that
does the state of Vermont an injustice
III the matter of regular army enlist
ments.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-29
Not Advertised.

Mamma" said little Elsie, ruth
says her name is in the Bible"
$50 it IS, dear"
Isn't my name in it,"
NO dear
'Didn't God make me, mamma?'
why, yes, of course
Then why didn't he say something
about it?''
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-29
Member Of the Associated praes

The Associated Press is exclusively en-.
titied"to the use for publication of al
news credited to 1t and not otherwis,
credited i'm this paper and also the loca
news published herein
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Transient advertising-Run of paper
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cents an inch for each subsequent inser-
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count for each subsequent insertion,
without change Of copy
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YOUR SALARY STOPS WITH

your breath Your wife and children
must live and eat. The man who dies
Is all right, the living suffer. There is
no Knight have becn'' in relation to
death, but there is in insurance In
sure and be sure. 6Sth year. National
Life lns Co. Of VI. Mutual AL
BERT G. LAIRD, Special Agent, s
Crosby Block.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-29

Jim Corbett will appear on Sept 2
in New York in a benefit performance
for the 18th New York infantry.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-29
DADDYS[y[N|NQ|
FAIRY TALE
THE WHIP?OORWlLLS.
81 MACY GRAAAM. BONNER

In the deep and dark woods, where
there were many rocks, and where
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-29

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1917.
New Britain herald., 1917-11-14
WHAT! JOE HUMILITY
 AN ALIEN ENEMY!
Secretary to the President Is Pestered by False
 Reports

Washington, Nov. 14.-Angered and
 chagrined over false charge that
 has obtained wide currency in the
 country. Joseph P. Tumulty, secre
 tary to the president, issued a formal
 statement last night denouncing what
 is believed to be a systematic effort
 to injure the administration by the
 persistent circulation of report that
 Mr. Humility had been arrested for treason. The statement issued by MT.
 Tumulty reads:
 For several days friends have
 written, telegraphed, and telephoned
 me from all parts of the country stat ing that rumors are being assiduously spread alleging that. I have been inn prisoned at Fort LeavenwOrth All sorts of fanciful tales are being passed from mouth to mouth by innocent per- i sons, who arc the victims of a syste- matic and insidious propaganda to ! weaken confidence in officials of tho 1 federal government. Officials of the l Department of Justice are investigat-
 ing the origin of this conspiracy, to de-
 terminc who has been guilty of ac-
 tually starting this falsehood."
 The Times correspondent saw MT. 1 Tumulty this afternoon. He had been sj receiving telegrams and long, distance
 telephone calls all day from persons who wanted him to know that the report that he had been arrested as a | spy Was being circulated in their re- ! $pectivc localities.
 How the story originated has not 1 been ascertained. Agents of the De- ! partment of justice arc now engaged l in a determined effort to get at the ] bottom of the canard.
 MT. Humility was on the point of l issuing a statement last Saturday con-
 corning the report. He received on l that day a letter stating that at T i meeting of bankers in Minneapolis, | eX-GoVernor Hanna of North Dakota | had declared that MT. Tumulty had 1 been shot as a spy. It was decided. ; however. that any general notice Of i the matter in the press would only
 give the falsehood wider publicity So ; far the White House and the De- partment of Justice know, only one l newspaper has given any currency to the rumor. In this newspaper 1t was
 credited to a militant sufYragist who was quoted as saving that she had heard that MT. Tumulty had been ar
 rested as a spy. When the evidence has been collected MT. Tumulty will take counsel as to the course to be who have been engaged in circulating |the libel.
 While the origin of the story is un- known. it is said to have obtained its 1 original circulation through 0 mes
 sage sent over a stockholders wire from New York to Chicago.