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Iditarod pioneer., 1918-01-05
GERMAN RAPACIOUSNESS MAY SPILL THEIR RUSSIAN BEANS

gained foothod in the British trenches, from which they were later ejected, except small section.
 London, Jan. 4.-General Haig reported today that he had advanced the British lines during the night slightly South of Lens. No changes have occurred on Cambrai front
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-01-05
ARSENIC IN THE SALT

Washington, Dec. 29.-Ssvsral per sons are dangsrous,y i'll It Seabrook, Md, ss 6 result of eating salt contain ing arsenic sold by Max Patsen, 2 Ger. man grocer.
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-01-05
ITALIAN FRONT
ITALIAN

 With Italian Armies Northern Italy, Jan. 3-Witt the exception of few outpost positions near the mouth of the Page river the entire west bank of the river today was clear of Austro German forces.
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-01-05

J. J. Smith made trip to Fiat on Tuesday. returning to town Wednesday,
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-01-05

Tas Moose ar to i've a big smoker xaa snLsr.A4nmeu. tvln0rrvw niKut.
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-01-05

Job Printing st Heasr slRes.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-31
EPIDEMICS IN PETRoGRAD.
Typhus, Smallpox, and Other Diseases
Decimating the Population.

LONDON, Jan. 3l.-Confrming the
outbreak of disease at Petrograd. the
correspondent there of the Times says
the population is being decimated The
epidemic is attributed to the extreme
shortage of food and adulteration with
all kinds of injurious admixtures. Va
rlous forms of typhus, as well as small
pox, are rampant.
Moreover, extremely unsanitarv condi-
tlons now prevail in the city, while all
the organizations concerned with public
health have either been abolished or
have virtually ceased operations, owing
to the revolution. There is no sanitary
commission, there are no great special
lists, and there is no regulation of dis
eases. Very few doctors are in prac-
tice, and some of these threaten to go
to Germany if the ignorant Russian
proletariat doing mental work in the
hospitals are permitted to continue die
tating to medical officers and trained
nurses.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-31
TO ENROLL WOMEN
FOR WORK ON FARMS
National Registration Is Planned by De
partment of Labor to Secure Suf-
fciency of Help.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3l.-National
registration Of women available for
work on farms is planned by the de-
Partment of labor to secure suffi-
cheney of farm labor for every section
of the country during the coming sea
son. Every effort will be made to meet
the expected shortage of farm labor bv
plan to mobilize the available men
and women in every community in the
country. Heavy SHOWS in the middle
west, A. l.. Berkman, chief of the di.
vision of farm service said. should
mean large wheat crop and if the
favorable weather continued one of the
biggest yields ON record NAV be ex
pected.
Women. Mr.. Berkman continued. viii
be needed for truck gardening, fruit
gathering, dairving and other LIGHT
forms of labor, but they will not be
called upon for the heavy work so lone
as men are available
The college girls and the women OF
the leisure classes who are ready to re-
spond to a call for workers as matter
,of patriotic SERVICE Dir. Berkmar
said, must be depended upon chiefly
for the women labor that will be need
ed. -
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-31

ization, the advisory council, headed by
John Lind, took occasion to suggest
that centralized administration of
war materials production would make
more effective the work of labor admin
istration.
- We should be neglectfuI of our full
'did we not point out that a perfect
administration of labor matters in ac-
cord with the plan outlined would not
be sufficient to meet the emergency
which faces the country. Labor mat.
tiers do not stand by themselves. They
are phases of production, and no cen
tralized administration of labor can ho
adequate which does not 90 hand IN
hand with the Capitalization of adj.
minlstration of production. How this
later Capitalization is to be accom-.
phshed II is not for your council to
consider, but its judgment is clear that
fallure TO secure such Capitalization
spells failure to secure a sound situa.
ton In labor, and failure to prosecute
the war vigorously"
ohclals generally believe that the
representatives of capital and labor
when they meet here, will have no great
diilculty IN getting together on the
general principles governing their rela
tlons. Both sides, it is held, will have
TO make some concessions. Labor prob
aply Will demand the right to proselytt
and to organize workmen in all shops
ana capital is expected to hold out fol
arbitration of all differences.
Some officials had hoped that on any
board representing both capital and la
Dor meeting to come to an arrangement
to last during the war, the government
itself would be represented. Labor de
partment officials declare that the gov
eminent will be in the closest toucl
with these conferences, and that tn,
same purpose will be served.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-31
Stands at Head of the Ma.
tons of World, Comptrol-
Ter of Currency Reports
IMMENSE INCREASE
IN LAST FEW YEARS
National Banks Are Stronger, Safer,
More Observant of Laws and More
Efficiently Managed Than Ever Be
fore-Warning in Regard to Duties.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3l.-TIow the
United States has become the dominant
banking power of the world is shown
in the annual report of the Comptroller
of the Currency, John SHELTON Will
liams, presented yesterday to congress.
Comptroller Williams estimates the
whole banking power of the nation at
$37 ,529, 600, 900 an increase of more than
$l4, 100000, 900 since the beginning of
President Wilson S administration. TAX
ing the latest estimate of the banking
power of the world, placed in 1890 at
SIS ,55S, 100000, America s increase is
alone nearly equal to the world s com
bined power q years ago, and on that
basis now two and q half times as
great.
National banks of the United States,
Comptroller Williams declares, are
stronger, safer. more observant of laws
and more efficiently managed than ever
before. Their resources-$1S,55 $50, 1877,
000-are by more that two billion dol
lars greater than ever before and ex-
coed by about the same amount the
combined resources of all state banks,
/ private banks and trust companies
| Under three years of the federal re.
| serve system national bank resources
| have increased more than $1,000, 000.-
| 600
Comptroller Williams. however
couples his report of this enormous
growth with warning that duties and
responsibilities have increased no less
! than the resources.
- 1t Is of supreme Importance. = he
says, 'that allurements of profit from
commerce or industry in this country
or in neutral countries. not essential
to our success in the war, should not
induce US to divert or dissipate the
capital or financial resources of oul
people
The danger from decline of earning
'FcaTacitr of phbiic' utility Corporations
and consequent shrinking of values in
their securities, the comptroller warns
is a real danger which should stimulate
the efforts of congress and every pa
triotic citizen.
First relief, he thinks might come
from state commissions and municipal
authorities, and he expresses the hope
that congress will directly or indirect
~ provide for the advancing of money
to corporations where it is necessary
to insure proper service to the govern
ment. The proposal is unusual, the
comptroller admits, but he points out
that the times are unusual.
Government guarantee of bank de
posts in sums under $4,000, the comp
troller believes, would bring into ust
much boarded money and he renews hi;
recommendation to congress to enact
such law.
A great volume of statistical informa
ton attached to the report shows tn,
increasing growth of the banking sys
tenn and the reduction in failures ane
losses.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-31

peal to every bank in the state, ask
ing them three questions: (First) if
they already have thrift and war saw
ing stamps on sale; (second) if, not
having them on sale, they do not plan
to put them on sale; and (third), if
there is any objection from banking
standpoint to having them on sale. He
has received most encouraging re-
sponses; and it seems probable that
the banks of Vermont will be enlisted
100 per cent strong in the great move
ment which is sweeping over the eoun-
try.
That the banks need have no fear of
competition from the war savings cam
paign is revealed by the experience of
Great Britain in similar movement.
When the campaign in that country
was really started in January, 1916,
there was alarm on the part of many
bank officials for fear that the cam
paign would interfere seriously with
their normal business How ground
less that fear proved to be is told by
Basil p. Blackett, c. B., of the British
treasury in the following words:
cit is a remarkable fact that in
spite of the special attractions of the
war savings certificates and of the
large sums-nearly 100000, O00-in.
vested in them, the savings campaign
has given an impetus to every one of
the older institutions for encouraging
savings, the postoffice savings banks
the other savings banks, the building
societies and the other cooperative so
cieties, all show record increases il
their deposits, and those responsible
for them have in consequence nearly
all been hearty and valuable workers
for the war savings movement, though
at first their fear of competition
threatened to cause much difficulty. .
knowledge of the results in Grea-
Britain strengthens the belief that thu
United States war savings stamp cam
paign will have tendency to increas,
| deposits in the banks of Vermont be
cause 1t will ineulcate habits of thrift
on the part of people who heretofor,
/ have never saved money.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-31
FREQUENT DELIVERIES
RAISE GOODS COST
Grocers Especially Should Get Together
for Purpose of Saving
EXpenSa

1t would be good thing If the plans
for sjmplified delivery from our stores
develops beyond tn, conference -
stage. The scheme, IS it is outlined
by the commercial economy board in
Washington was STATED for purposes
of conserving labor il war time. The
board states:
The recommendations are now in
effect, either as whole or in part, in
cities and towns with total popula-
ton of more than $4,000, 900. Eighty
cities have already gene to one deliv-
cry day Nearly as many have re-
stricted special deliveries and the re
turn goods and C. o. d. privilege Ana
about 40 towns now have cooperative
delivery systems. The savings of a
Dor have been large. The cooperative
systems alone have commonly save, so
to 60 per cent.
Besides enabling the merchants to
get on without replacing men WAC are
drafted, the changes will kee; many
from seeking to retain deliverunen for
whom the war industries are bidding.
They also viii permit many merchants
to transfer deliverymen to more essen
| tial work within their own business, in
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-31
II Huge Transportsvith
Thousands of Amerins
Aboard Reach Frap
SIZE OF CONVOY
is KEPT A Sect
Soldiers, Doctors, Nurses and killed
Workmen Among the Passyers-
Leviathan, Biggest Ship in World,
One of the Fleet.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.-T heart
of America is thrilled with news
that the greatest armada in r his
tory-l7 huge nsports-hayerrived
safely at French ports with tusands
of officers, soldiers, and supplido bat
tie the Kaiser
Stealing ont of American PTS ear
ly sast week, the vessels-forlrly the
best in the German merchant arine-
delivered their precious cargon Eu-
ropean soil, untouched by spieand I'M
observed by the watchful cyeof sub
marines.
Protecting them on THEN voyage
were American men-of war-iet gray
monsters-who swept thro,h the
waves, grim warning that thr trans
port charges were to be deferred un
harmed.
The size of the convoy .nnot be
published, but ii may be stad that il
was such as to furnish prottion FOL
such a tremendous responsibility
Aboard the transports we thou
sands of young men-officerslor train
ing, Sammies for servicel doctors
nurses, and skilled workmenFrom al
! parts of the country they hatbeen sc
cretly assembled at differentembark
ing points along the seabon Non
knew before he left, even hat We:
sci he would board-onlv tbs he wa
to be at given place at gen hou
prepared for a long journey.
After the noses of the grtt vessel
poked their way out of port into I'll
! ocean mists last week, the urtain c
censorship dropped over thr voyag
Whether they all met at 81, formin
one great movement, the ar depar
ment viii not reveal
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-31
REQUEST BY COL. ILSLEY
$780, GOO to Vermont Baptists and $4,000
to Church in Middlebury.

NEW YORK, Jan l-Substantial
requests to religious institutions in
Vermont were made in the will of Silas
~ Ilsley of Middlebury, formerly of
this city, filed for probate here. Mr..
llsley, who died at Middlebury Jan. :,
left an estate valued at more than
100000
To the Vermont Baptist state con
vcntion, Burlington. was left $50, 600:
Memorial Baptist church, Middleburv,
$4,000; Rev. DR.. Roy +. Whittemore
of Middlobury, pastor of the Memorial
Baptist church, and Rev. William A.
Dawson of Burlington, $4,000.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-31
STATE NEWS NOTES.

+ Vermont, as a state, has far out-dis.
tanced New Hampshire in the knitted
goods, surgical dressings, hospital gar
ments and comfort kits produced dur
ing the month of December, according
to the New England figures, received by
Secretary H. S. Howard Of the state
chapter. In December the state of
Vermont sent out 9,749 knitted goods
against New Hampshire s 1921; 1889
surgical dressings against New Hamp-
shire S 69,165; 4,55S hospital garments,
against New Hampshire S las and So
comfort kits against New Hampshire s
l20. Burlington for December put out
S45 articles of knitted goods, l ole hos
pital supplies. 9,0l5 surgical dressings
and 4O5 hospital garments.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-31

which there are vacancies on account
of the draft
Simplifed delivery from retail stores
is something that should have been
adopted long ago, regardless of war,
drafting of labor or any other cause.
The burden of the cumbersome and ont
landish methods of modern retail de-
livery fall very heavily upon the trades
people. The public is very exacting in
its demands for delivery service. igno
rant of the tremendous costs of main !
tanning such service. Bring me this
or bring me that, and bring it right
away says Mrs. So and So, about 10
minutes after her grocer s team has
left her door. AS an instance, let us
cite true case very illustrative of the
expense of modern delivery. A lady
recently called a local grocer on the
phone, gave her name hurriedly, said,
''send me up three cakes of laundry
soap right away and she hung up
the receiver. The obliging grocer did
up three cakes of laundry soap the Gus
toner was accustomed to use-you see
he has to remember all those little
things hustled off his team on the
special trip. The driver broke his neck
! to get there before the wash woman,
made it, and left the soap on the
kitchen table.
Back he goes to the store, and no
sooner had he arrived than ting-a-ling
| again on the phone. "Hello, hello. =
came the excited voice, "you sent me
three cakes of such and such soap.
when you know l wanted Naptha. =
Bang goes the receiver and away goes
-. | bo Hri,- bo nf
tina. He returns with the first order
one cake of which had lost its wrapper
in the deal. And how much do YOU
suppose that little fracas cost oui
. friend, the grocer. 1t paid him to sci
. those three cakes of scoap, we don Z
think. Such occurrences are every DAY
aiding an awful weight to the expens,
/ of doing business. But the public i
i not to blame No, because there ar,
!. no rules or regulations in force as t
how deliveries are conducted.
1t is the plain duty of merchants t
e get together on the delivery question
y Where deliveries are practically con
e fined to food stores, the plan coul
$ easily be arranged to handle the Who'll
A. business with one delivery outfit, hay
ing schedule Of hours for goods t
'e leave certain stores. Or, there coul
1t be an arrangement whereby a merchan
Dr. would have a single delivery each day
setting an hour when all orders must b
u IN or wait until the next day.
n At any rate, there s no sense in hi
IS, running out Oh a special errand ever
III time some customer wants a bar
re- soap, a couple of ounces of sugar, be
k Of toothplcls or salt herring.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-31
WANTS BACK HIS FARM.
Man Who Sold it Twice Alleges He
Was Insane

DOYLESToWN, Pa, Jan 31-Al-
leging that he was insane at the time
he sold his farm, William Traub of
Northampton township is endeavoring
i'll court here to recover it from Mr.
and Mrs. Adam Bryan, to whom he sold
it twice in 1915.
According TO the testimony, after
Traub sold the farm the first time he
gave Bryan $1,000 more than the sale
price to get il back. Then he again
sold it to Bryan, so that Bryan had
$1,000 clear on the transaction Then
DR.. L. +. Powmll of Riehboro was au-
thorized to Offer Bryan another $500
bonus to get ii back.
The petition for the appointment OF
a commission tC inquire into the sanity
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-31

A FRENCH CITY, Jan 3l.-The
great steamer Leviathan, frmerly the
Naterland,9 has arrived at European
port, carrying thousands American
soldiers. They had an uneentful WOW
age and did not sight a sbmarine
Every one of these trnsports has
arrived at European por ten months
earlier than their former Cerman crews
anticipated when they smshed the ma
chinery aboard each liner
The ships included tn great liner
Leviathian, the biggest ship in the
world, formerly the Vatrland of the
Hamburg-American line.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-31
TO SEIZE GOLD IN RUSSIA,
Bolshevist Government DEGREES a State
MONOPOLY

PETROGRAD, Jan. 3l-The people s
commissaries have decreed a state mo-
nopoly of gold. Gold articles weighing
over 10 zolotnik, 96 of which go to make
up the Russian pound, belonging to pr.
vate persons or shops must be handed
over to the state at fixed prices. They
will be confiscated unless delivered with
in month. Informers will receive one
third the value of the articles. Churches
museums, and other public institutions
are required to place their gold articles
at the disposal of the state.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-31
VERMONT BANKS
ARE COOPERATING
Doing Their Part Toward Increasing the
Sale of the United States War
Stamps
Especial to The Reformer.)
MONTPELIER Ian

-
Vermont banks, both national and
state, are cooperating splendidly in the
war saving stamp campaign and they
are pushing the sale of thrift stamps
and war saving stamps vigorously Full
~ one-half of the banks of the state al
ready have the stamps ON sale; and it
IS Director Fred A. Rowland s desire
to enlist the services of every bank
IN Vermont in this patriotic movement.
a movement that is calculated to tighten
the financial burden of the national
government materially
To that end he has addressed an an
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-31
DON'T SUFFER
WITH NEURALGIA
Use Soothing Mu5terole

When those sharp pains 60 shooti--..-;
through your head, when your ell!
oeems as if it would split, just rub .
Little Musterole on your temples crl
neck. il draws out the ilfanm1tic-,,
eoothe5 away the pain, usually Civia-
Mu5terole is clean, white o;nt1ic-....
made with Gil Of mustard. Better than 4
E.GStard plaster and does not bl;c.c--.
MANY doctors c-d nurse3 frankly re-.
cnmend Musterolc for sore throat. b-or.
cnitis, Group, otiI neck, asthma. neural.
GA, congestion, pleurisy, rheumatism.
l2:HbaSo, pans ard aches of the b2c,, 81.
eats. c2-@.71, core muscles, bruises.
chilblaias, frosted feet - colds of the
chest ut often prevents pneumoni1). I;
u always dependable.
cOc and Coo jars; hospital size SEQ.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-31

of William Traub, the appointment of
the commission, the finding of the COM
mission and the order of the court com
hitting Traub to the hospital in 1915
had been admitted as evidence before
the case was discontinued.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-31
FELL $50 FEET.
Losing Balance, Man Drops Down
Mine Shaft to His Death.

MOUNT CARMEL, Pa, Jan. 81
Losing his balance while removing the
safety keeps from beneath cage in
the Locust Springs shaft, Patrick
Kane, 20. fell $50 feet to the bottom
and was instantly killed. Every bone
in his body was broken.
Kane was the only support of wild
owed mother and three small children.
The father was killed in the same mine
last September and last week an older
brother was drafted for the army
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-31
WEST GUILFORD.

The Ladies Aid society will meet
Wednesday at the church vestry. Sup
per will be served as usual Miss Edna
Phelps will entertain All are invited.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-31

Truth never lodges, no matter who
throws mud at it.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-31

Few men care TO be as good or as
bad as they are said to be-
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-31

Dad SAYS heaven is a place where
they never have a tag dav.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-31

If bread is the staff of life then
bread and honey must be gold headed
cane.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-03
PLANS TO COMBAT N
 "FLU" EPIDEMIC
Health Authorities Say Epidemic Has Been Recurrent From Two 10 Three Years Heretofore.

Chicago, Dec. l.-Plans for combat ing another influenze epidemic which is expected to sweep the country in 1919 will be considered by health au thorities from all parts of the United States, Canada and South America at tho forty-sixth annual convention of the American Public Health Asso- citation which opens here Dec. 9.
 Members of the association say that all the influenza epidemics since 1729 have been recurrent for from two to three yearS after the initial outbreak. For this reason leading authorities feel convinced that the visitation of 1918 will be repeated i'll 1919 and probably in 1920 Also it spointed out that in previous cpidemics the second outbreaks have been more virulcpt and attended by higher mort ality rate than were the initial mani festations.
 It was carly in 1918, according to Dr. w. A. Evans, former health com missioner of Chicago, that he new so-l called Spanish influenza made it's appearance in Spain. Now Spain is having it's second outbreak, according to Dr. Evans more virulent in form and attended by an alarming death ratea
 During the three-day meeting, the methods used in combating the lslS