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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
Nothing Less Than Barbaric

| am vigorously opposed to capital
punishment, and voted against it in my
home state, Oregon. | am especially
opposed to the inhiction of the extreme
penalty on a minor. Now that the
woman's view is to have expression
expect to see reform in the laws
which will do away with a practice of
Furnishing children by system nothing
less than barbaric
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
Doctor Anna Ho1uard Shav, Senator Albert
Otinger, Justice Hoyt, Cyrus Townsend
Brady and Others Join in the Protest
Against Our Neu YORK. Lam
Senator Albert

legislative attention to the need for
statute revision bearing upon the treat
ment Of all crime, both of graver as
we'll as of minor offenses committed by
adolescent youth. That is my interest.
REV. C. DE WITT BOWLING.
st. Johns Episcopal Church, Wells
viIe, N. Y.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08

boys too young to be sent TO prison,
| believe that when women have rs.,
voice in such matters, when they take
the responsibility that they should taks
few cases such as that Of Paul Chapman
will be allowed to go as far as his wen.
IDA CLYDE CLARKE
Washington Editor, Pictorial Rer;e,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
No Murder in His Heart

am in favor Of capital punishment
in certain cases-never for minor.
The Chapman case has appealed very
strongly to those who believe in Justice
tempered with mercy. I do not believe
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
FOLLOWING are a few Of the

HOLLOW1NG are few Of the
many thousand opinions on the
New York law permitting CAPT
tai punishment for offenders over seven,
which have come in response to the
campaign in behalf Of Paul Chapman,
the sixteen-year-old boy whose SEN
tcnce to die the week Of January 6 has
just been committed to life imprison-
ment by Governor Whitman:
A Crime Greater Than His
I am most emphatically opposed to
the death penalty at any age, but when
inflicted upon boy who committed the
deed when only a little over sixteen it
is nothing short of crime. Such a
youth needs training and care and edu
cation and work, and should be put I'M
der the charge of people who have the
ability to understand the psychology of
life and the causes which lead to crimes
of this character.
If the laws upon our statute books
were enforced upon older lawbreakers;
If hundreds of our laws were not made
with the expectation that they would
be evaded; if our courts were not in
many cases the abettors of crime by
the inf1iction of punishment upon the
guiltless and allowing the guilty to es-
cape; if the whole people Of the coun-
try held higher ideals Of law and ODE
dience to it-there would be less delin-
quency among the children Of the ma
ton and fewer crimes of this sort
among its boys.
When we read constantly in the press
of the graft of politicians and public
officials; when capital is seeking by
honorable or dishonorable means to Sc
cure vast sums of money; when labor
uncontrolled in many respects, is seek
ing to gain what is not the result of toll
but of arbitrary rules; when, in fact
the whole public life is permeated with
false ideals of justice and right, we can
not but expect that young boys at this
age, passing from childhood to boyhood,
will be Influenced by the attitude of the
popular mind
And to have sentenced such boy to
death was, in my opinion, crime
greater than that Of which he was &C
cused, even though he were guilty Of
the murder.
ANNA HOWARD SHAW,
Chairman Wonnra's Committee. Council
OF National Defence
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
The Chorus Girl an
Economic Problem,

Why is the chorus girl an economic
problem? Because theatrical life kills
ambition at very early age. The COM
petition is so fierce, the spectacle of fail
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
Case for Cure, Not Punishment

believe in considering such boy
as this one, and probably any boy of
his age, who has been sufficiently
wrought upon emotionally to commit
murder, case rather to be diagnosed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08

say, they kick at certain intervals and
dance. Which of these two great factors
III the American Drama is the more i'm
portant Is point which has been argued
nightly in every dressing room from
here to the Coast, but it has never been
decided, and never will be.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08

there was intent to commit murder or
that murder was in the boys heart.
MAX PATTERSON,
Attorney at Law
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
ABBIE PIKE,

Chief of Publication Department. Rus
sell Sage Foundation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
If You Approve This Write and
Say So to Your Represen-
tatives at Albany

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PENAL LAW
IN RELATION TO THE SENTENCE
OF MINORS TO IMPRISONMENT
for Paul Chapman
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
By WINIFRED DUNCAN WARD

n TOW that our boys are coming back
~ from France, every one is wait
ing anxiously to see what will
happen to the girls who stepped in and
did their work while they were gone, and
the heads Of industry are busy thinking
out new and permanent jobs for the fac
tory girl, the stenographer, the waitress.
What about the chorus girl? Now that
the men are returning they will be in
greater demand than ever in the ranks
of musical comedy; hundreds of girls
will be put aside to make room for them,
yet no one seems to think there is any
problem about the chorus girls life.
She doesn't think so herself, which is
why you never have to read heavy ar
ticles about her, giving statistics and
data about how many there are of her
out of work, and why. She should worry,
and if she doesn't, why should you?
AS matter of fact, the most impor-
tant problem about chorus girl is never
her present, but her future. She is such
a wise appearing little person that it
really doesn't seem worth while to worry
about her-she is so worldly wise about
so many things wherein we still are
doubtful. For instance, she has found
out thing that you and will never
learn If we live to be hundred, and that
is, what we really look like
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
Tall-Dark, Short-Light
or Vice Versa

If you are lucky enough to have been
born In house where mirrors do not
stop at the belt I suppose you have a
chance, but even there you are handi-
capped, because long mirrors are, of
course, always in the par1or, with the
shades pulled down, and the dim and
romantic vision which you catch glimpses
of therein is really not like what you are
at all. But the chorus girl has an early
awakening, and it is not from mirrors
that she learns the truth, but from the
Man Who Puts On the Numbers. Lined
up before him with thirty others, she
learns the worst about herself, and as
he gets salary for doing it there is no
Sinking.
We usually think, when we favor the
stage for the first time with our pres
once, that three facts will be clear to
any man with eyes in his head:
1. Our distinguished profile, setting
us apart forever from the common herd
2. Our chin, which is noted for its
individual tilt;
3. Our general resemblance to a Rus
sian princess, oft remarked upon by dis
eliminating friends.
But the Man Who Puts On the Num-
bers does not seem struck with these de-
tails. Instead he shoves US impartially
into one Of two groups. and rolling up his
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
OLIVE STOTT GABRIEL,

4 tto1ney at Lam.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
MARY WOOD,

Chairman of Legislation of the General
Federation of Wmen's Clubs
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
FALLS BRES

Attorney at Lac.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-09
Text of Presidents Reply to German Peace Note

WASHINGTON Oct 9Flowng the reply
the delivered
mission Berlin note from Secretary State Lansing embodg the
Presidents words
Sir" have the honor acknowledge behalf of the President
note of Oct nong the from the German to
the President the President
the following communication to the imperial German chancellor
before making the the Imperial German
shall candid
President
imperial chancellor
docs the imperial chancellor that the imperial
the laid down by the President his address
the United States the Sth of January last subsequent
dresses and that its object entering discussions would be only
the practical details of their application?
The President feels bondo with regard to the suggestion of
that would liberty
the with which
ated against the central the armies of those
their soil
good upon
the Immediately withdraw
from invaded territory.
"Ihe President also feels that he justified
pa chancellor speaking merely for the constituted authorities
conducted He
lions vital from point of view
Accept the renewed assurances of high consideration
ROBERT LANSING"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-09
CUTS MOVIE TAKES.
Senate Committee Makes Other Changes
in Revenue Bill Also.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.-Revision of
three important sections of the war
revenue bill-those taxing beverages,
tobacco and transportation virtually
was completed yesterday by the senate
finance committee. The committee be-
gan work on amendment admission pro-
visions.
The committee lowered the house rate
on distilled beverages from $S.to sc. 40
per gallon, approved the house plan of
doubling taxes on beers and wines and
adopted all of the house imposts on
transportations, including freight, per-
sons, express and telegraph and tele-
phone messages, except that the tax on
all pipe line; transportation was in
creased from 1-2 to 8 per cent. The
committee also adopted the provisions
of the house bill taxing soft drinks ex-
cept "near beer and similar bever-
ages, consideration of which was post
poned
In revising the amusement tax Sec
tion the committee struck out the house
provision for 1-cent tax on admis-
sions to moving picture shows of
cents or less for children under u
years of age and also amended the see
tion imposing a tax of two cents on
! each admission of a dime or fraction
thereof so as TO provide for a tax OF
only cent on Scent admissions.
! The house plan of doubling present
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-09

ported from Italy must not be included
To make carbon for 100000 men ii
takes 35,O00.00O pounds. The task seems
impossible, but when it is realized that
stones of peaches alone coming into
New England last year would fill IS cars
or furnish 100000 pounds it will be
seen that it can be done if everyone will
take hold Ii takes seven pounds to
make a mask; every mask saves life.
The Red Cross conservation bureau has
been asked by the war industries board
to help make good the shortage of plati-
mum and tin by an organized effort of
collection.
Platinum has been shipped almost en-
tirely from Russia for years. but the pro-
duction has been abandoned because of
chaotic conditions there. In order to
remedy the condition it is necessary to
draw on the supply now in the hands
of private individuals i'll the form of
jewelry, which is the only available
source of supply. The need of platinum
is increasing and if a temperate appeal
at this time does not meet with re
Spouse the situation may become seri
Gus.
There is sufficient platinum on hand to
carry the government through the next
several months. but there is not reserve
stock accumulated The war industries
board states that it is vitality important
"a matter of real necessity-that the
stock be built mp for the future
| Tin i one of the most essential metals
at this time. 1t is not only impossible 20
Ioperate steamer on the ocean or build
a railroad car without it. but it may be
said that the entire Industries of the
| United States are dependent on tin in
some form. The war industries board
has made a careful estimate of the re-
Iquirements for tin in the immediate flu
ture and finds deficit of some 5000
tons in the amount required to meet the
needs. Tin is found IN innumerablc
forms, but for the purpose for which the
Red Cross is conducting the campaign
the forms in which tin worth collecting
Imay be found are limited to three and
the articles TO be saved and collected are
ITinfoil of every Kind tobacco cigaret
chewing gum, chocolate and foil. USED
by florists or other foils; collapsiblC
tubes tooth paste shaving cream. salye
paints, etc; pewter articles.
Tin cans, so-called contain trininl
percentage of tin and because Of thi}
and the difficulty of obtaining material,
for defining they are not worth collect
inc e.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-09
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL.

The house occupied by the late Charles
Starkey has been sold through the J. l..
Howard real estate agency to Albert
Reyes Mr. and Mrs Reyes will move
there next month from Main street
The office of the local draft board has
received the master list of draft order
numbers for men between Is and 45
who registered for military service Sept.
| -. The numbers were drawn last week
i in Washington to determine the order in
which the men will be called for physical
examination.
The first lot of classification cards
were sent yesterday from the office of
the local draft board to men between the
ages of 10 and SO who registered Sept.
| -. Calls to report for physical examina-
ton will be sent out within a few days.
Orders were received at the office today
not to send any more men to. the Uni,
yersity Of Vermont until after Oct l6.
( The funeral of Mrs Annie Hopkins.
who died of pneumonia in the Franklin
County hospital in Greenfield yesterday
morning viii be- held in St Michae's
Roman Catholic church at Q o'clock to-
morrow morning and the burial will take
place in ST AIichael's Roman Catholic
cemetery. The body was brought today
to the home Of Peter J. Hopkins at IS
| Western avenue.
A check for Ss0.42 for the work of the
American Fund for French Wounded has
lbeen sent by Miss Elizabeth Moran.
treasurer of the Patriotic league to Mrs.
Henry {. Lee, who spoke in the Audito-
rum recently under the auspices of the
league. A contribution for the work WAS
made by the league before Mrs Lee came
here and the amount is not included in
1.-THE above check
With reference to the golden glow
seed which the public Improvement
committee of the board of trade
wishes to secure for use in sowing the
railroad bank next spring the commit
tee states that collections will be made
late this week or the first Of next week
and il is desired that the seed be gath
cred in advance in bags or boxes 1t
viii be a great Convenience if the per
sons making the collections do not
have to stop TO gather the seed.
Owing to the indefinite quarantine i'm
posed by the state, on account of the
prevailing epidemic two meetings Of the
Brattleboro Woman's club have been
postponed The first. which was to have
been held Oct. ,, when a new president
, to succeed Mrs. +. b. Smith. who has
moved from town. was to have been
elected. will be held as soon as the quar-
antine is removed. The second, at which
i Rev r. X Marvin of Franklin, Mass.
would have spoken on his Y NJ. G. A
, work in France. has been postponed in
definitely, but it is hoped to have Mr.
!, Marvin later if he remains in this coun
, try The year books have been delayed
, in order to print the name of the new
: president with the list of officers, but
{ under the circumstances it seems advis
, able to get them out in their origina
form. They will be ready for distribu
. ton to members soon.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-09
e BuY LIRERTY RoEps A.
KEENE BOY NOT DEAD.
Letters from Chester Kingsbury Prove
Him Alive in France.

KEENE, n. H., Oct. 1.-Two letters
dated Sept. have been received on
this side from Corporal Chester L.
Kingsbury, l0lst engineers, whose name
was recently reported from two sources
to have been posted in France in a list
of those killed in action, Sept. T. Two
friends Of Chester or Of the family, who
were in France, sent word to this side
that the name was seen in a list of
the killed on that date. Fortunately the
report was much less alarming to par
cnts and friends than it otherwise
would have been, by reason of the fact
that letters from the Kingsbury boys
Of Kcene written on the 3D., and SAYING
that they were all together and not on
the firing line having been touring the
camps as members of musical troup,
reached here about the same time
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-09
DRIVE TO COLLECT
CARBON MATERIAL.
Committee Named of Which
George E. Sherman
Is Chairman
PITS, NUT SHELLS
FOIL AND PLATINUM
Red Cross Cooperating with War In
dustries Board-Everybody Asked to
Help, and Plans for Collections Will
Be Announced

An intensive campaign will be started
at once in Brattleboro for the conserya-
ton of fruit pits, nut shells. tinfoil and
platinum, and the formulation Of plans
for the collection and shipment Of ma
terials has been placed in the hands OF
a special committee just appointed by
the Windham County chapter of the Red
Cross the war industries board Of the
government having requested the Ameri-
can Red Cross to act as its special agent.
The commtte for Windham county
consists OF George Z. Sherman, chairman,
ID. T.. Dewitt, G. +. Foster, J. II. Rogers.
II. p. Wcllman and j. L. Stewart OF
Brattleboro and George Il. Wales OF Bel
lows Falls. This committee will appoint
Others from other sections Of the county
as the needs arise and as the plans pro
grcss.
The committee has held one meeting,
and among the plans in view is cam
paign to be carried on in the schools
when they reopen, hut details as to coll
lecting the materials have not been
worked ont definitely. These arrange
meuts will be outlined soon and an
nouncemcnts will be made.
Concentration centers have been desig
mated to facilitate collection and ship
ment. Bellows Falls being designated as
the center Of this section of the state.
Other state centers are Rutland Burling-
ton. ST John.bury and Montpelier.
a nationwide campaign will be start
cd at once and will be continued wig
orously until the shortage is made good.
The Red Cross is performing the service,
not for the financial profits involved, but
to conserve and render available materi-
ais really needed by the government and
industries Of the country as n means of
winning the war just as the conservation
of food has been means of winning the
war.
Fruit pits and nut shells are needed
urgently TO make carbon TO protest the
men overseas from German poison gas
Two hundred peach stones will produce
carbon enough TO protect one soldier
from these gases and seven pounds OF
nuts will produce a like amount. Edible
nuts should be opened as their meat,
have a good market value. Pits and
nuts must be dried in ovens or in the
sun before being delivered to the eollcc-
ton centers, 10 prevent them from mold
ing, and It will simplify matters il indi-
viduals. restaurants, hotels etc, will
dry their own before turning them over
and even though the materials are old
they will be accepted. 1t is not neces
sary 10 keep the various materials sepa
rate. Every organization and indiyid
ual Is expected to cooperate and tak'
part in this vitality important cam
paign as it is question of saving live
and health.
The materials available for use il
making gas masks include: Peacl
stones or seeds, apricot pits. prune pits
olive pits. date seeds. cherry pits, Bra
iii nut shells. walnut shells English o
native), hickory nut shells. butternu
shells. Pits from native cherries. onl
can be used, aud those from cherries i'm
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-09

tobacco taxes was substantially adopt
ed, except that those Oh cigarettes were
made $40 per 1000. The house rate
of 20 cents pound on manufactured
tobacco was reduced to - cents.
Most of the changes made We're with
the design of securing increased rev
enue. Members of the committee held
that liquor sales would be greater un-
der the reduced rate than under the
house taxes. The committee postponed
action on revenue problems arising
from pending legislation for national
prohibition from next July / until aft
er the war and from orders of the
President stopping the manufacture of
beer Dee |.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-09
WEST BRATTLEBORO

If BUY LIBERTY BONDS
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-09

NEWTON, Oct. 9.-Lieut Stafford
Brown was a chum of David Putnam,
the Ace of American Aces, killed in
action recently; of T. Cushman Nathan,
Killed in a fall at AYR, Scot, several
months ago, and of William A. Well
man, now on his way to California TO
train American aviators after surviv-
ing thrilling experiences in France.
The-fourwrre friends at Newton high
school aud all were football stars,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-09

Mrs Donald C. Trotter of Philadelphia
is visiting at the Trotter farm.
Ed. Johnson's and Emery AIiller's fam
lilies are in quarantine with influenza.
Oscar G.. Covey has resumed work at
W. Renfrew's mill driving the delivery
team.
Mrs. Helena d. Matthews is recovering
from an Illness with influenza and Is
able to be about her room again.
liberia, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. +.
A. Knight, who has been very i'll with a
stomach trouble and under the care of a
physician, is little more comfortable.
James Upton of Wilmington is making
an excellent recovery from an operation
for appendicitis, which was performed
a week ago today in the Melrose hos
pital. Mr. Upton had been afflicted with
chronic appendicitis several years.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-09
- suY IIREF N RoNnS = Z
ANOTHER NOTED FLYER.
Lieut.. Stafford Brown Killed When
Monoplane Fell.

PARIS, Oct 9-The Temps reports
that Lieut.. Stafford Brown of Newton,
Mass, while plotting his monoplane
over a village near Nantes Monday fell
in park. He was carried into a
chateau and died without recovering
consciousness.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-09
exSRQY LlBERTY BONDS st e
EVANS PROMOTED SERGEANT.
Brattleboro Boy Is Member Of Company
z, 1o1st Ammunition Train.

Mrs James NJ. Truell of 70 Highland
street has received a letter from Harold
Evans of Company T, 10lst ammdni-
tion train, in which he says that he has
been promoted from corporal to SER
geant. He also said that the boys were
glad to get back to the front again
after short rest and that probably
before she received another letter from
him they would "be in Germany and
maybe clear through as it takes only
the mountain boys to give the Ger
mans the devil
81 Buy LIBERTY BONDS 81
There's often slip, after the enp and
fhe lin
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-09
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There was an old man of Balize,
Who said Il shall certainly frize";
So furnace he bought,
But he couldn't get bought,
And continued to SILVER and snize,