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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-10
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1918.
THE LAWS DELAY.

There are 113 members of the l. ".
w. under Indictment in Chicago for
violation of the espionage act. 1t was
said by counsel some time ago that il
would take six months to finish their
trial 1t seems likely that it will drag
along beyond that time The prison.
ers harr been arraigncd and a start
was made last week to select a iarv.
There was q large vcnirc from which
Co get T. jurors tried and true. II
came out in the course of the cxamina-
tion that the list had been carefully
gone over by friends Of the accused,
and that most of those on the list had
been approached to see how they stood.
The court dismissed the entire vcnire
and ordered 4 new one. The counsel
for the accused told the court that
they had nothing to do with the at
tempt to pack the jury with sympa-
thctic friends of the 1l3, but that it
might have been done by radical so
cialists, who were eager to have them
acquitted.
It is going to be a pretty hard task
to get a jury of L. men. none of whom
has read about the doing5 Of the l
W. w, and has not formed some idci
about them. The espionage act is 4;
war measure, and there ought to b,
enough in it to make it unnecessary t,
90 through all the delaying processes of
trial by jury. The country is beeom
ing very inpatient at the law S delay
! in dealing with those who have becl
arrested for alleged violations of tn
espionage act. A more summary Pre-
ccdurc ought to be devised than is pos
sible by strict conformity with prece
| dents, which are unreasonablv apple
20 the situation az it exists now.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-10
80 that settled the difficulty.

1.-The story we wanted to tell YOU
said the first peacock, was this. We
wanted TO let you know what an honor
had been paid to peacoclss We thought
you might tell the fairies about US,
and that would please us so much. We
get rather tired staying SO still, but
we're happy because of our story
The second peacock began to speak,
as the fairy hoped over nearer that
end of the book-rack. We're so de-
lighted because for years we've been
considered very vain. We have beau
tiful tails and we love to spread them
out and strut about and show them
of. We know our tails are lovely
and the colors of our feathers very
wonderful.
mo wonder, then. that we want to
show them to the whole world. We
think they enjoy beautiful things, and
50 we show off our tails. But do they
appreciate them? Not for n moment.
Well. maybe that's bit harsh. They
do think our tails are beautiful, I've
not a doubt of that. but instead OF
thanking US for giving them SO many
opportunities for seeing our tails, they
call Us vain $3.50 ==-
I'VE are vain 70 be sure said the
first peacock. but we like 10 give
| pleasure with our beauty. And so its
no wonder they choose US for lovely
| book-racks. Bat more than that-w,
make lovely decorations, but we hold
up books. and so they must think we'r,
| wise. and it's something we've never
been thought before
Both the peacocks looked Yer,
happy, and the fairy promised to tel
| tho other fairies about them, but siit
! laughed to herself for she didn't thinl
| it was any sign of wisdom to s.npl!
| Mold IN books"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-10

There can be no peace with honor
or safety to ourselves or to posteritv
expect just peace, and there can and
will be no other peace. Work for
peace at the present time accomplishes
nothing but the hampering of our eff
forts, the delay of the real peace, and
q greater toll of death of America 3
fighting men. Our duty is to war for
a just and righteous peace; to work
or speak for any other peace is aid
and comfort to Germany-injury and
disloyalty to our boys in France. The
watehword of the hour is "Force,' as
President Wilson pointed out so admir-
ably in his speech at Baltimore.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-10
Little Benny's
Note Book
By LEE PAPE

Babies
No matter how big YOU are today,
Or how mulch you think YOU know,
on use to be a baby wunts,
As your f0tograff albin viii show.
You cant remember how it use to feel
To be a little baby,
Wich wen YOU look at some babies tx
pressionS,
Its good thing you cant, maybe
It takes yeers to tectch them to tawk,
No matter how hard you keep trying,
But they proberly wood lern mulch
sooner
If they dident waste so mulch time cry
ing.
If YOU say to a dog, "Good doggie,
It will wag It's tale at tho mention,
But if YOU say to a baby. "Good baby,
1t wont pay the slightest attention.
Babys are all diffrent colors,
Depending on tho parents they've got,
Because otherwise it wood be too hare
to tell
Weather they was Ch;nec babies or wat
Every mother thinks her own baby
Is the most bewtifill baby there is,
And YOU cant tell env father about an
other baby,
Because he wont stop tawking about his
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-10
Should Raise Beans.
(Rutland Herald.1

That Topsham farmer who sold eight
bushels of beans for $50 must have
wished that he had had more of them to
dispose Montpelier Argus.
The other side of the story, natural
ly, is that many farmers, depending on
the usual Vermont season, got their
beans nipped by the early frosts and
lost money on the crop. This, however,
does not disprove the fact that beans,
under average conditions, are safe,
sure and extremely profitable crop.
Being Of the legume family, beans do
not exhaust the soil like some cereal
and fodder crops. They can be planted
and cultivated by machinery, do we'll on
most soils and arc the first and last
surc-frc crop for the amateur farmer
In food gardens, city tracts and for a
cash crop on the farm, farmers and gar
deners will do well TO plant beans.
! The price may not range anywhere
near SO bushcl this year, yet good
Judges of the market look for higher
rather than lower, prices on produce this
fall. Beams are staple food in the army
and navy.
Moral Raise a lot Of beans.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-10

Many people arc guilty of trcspass,
but never realize the trouble and incon-
venience they cause. We are not re-
fcrring to trcspass on property but up
ON the time of the Woodworking bust,
ness man. who has before him a mass
of work that should demand all his
time and energy for the day. In drops
an old friend or an old business Gus
toner, who, after an exchange of
greetings, takes off his overcoat and
plans to camp down for IN indefinite
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-10

They are dealing with ruthless mill
tary autocracy that knows no law ex
cept its own purposes and its own am
billions. The chancellor IS a puppet. The
foreign secretary is a puppet. 1t is by
no means certain that the Kaiser him
self is not puppet. He is at least the
creature as we'll as the fgurehead of the
military autocracy that rules the Ger
man people and is the master as well of
Austria Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey.
The experience of the war has shown
'conclusively that there is only one way
of dealing with the present German gov
eminent. 1t is the way pointed out by
President. Wilson in his Baltimore
speech:
! Force, force to the utmost, force
without stint or limit, the righteous
and triumphant force which shall
| make the law of the world and east
every selfish dominion down in the
dust.
The argument of force is the only ar
gument that makes the slightest appeal
to the military masters of Germany. II
is the only argument they understand
and there can be no peace until Prus
sianism is beaten with its own weapons
The German people have shown by thei1
conduct that they will support thei1
autocracv as long as 1t can sustain It
self by military prestige. The way t.
end the war is to destroy that prestige
and force IS the only instrument.
Many Americans have been deludln;
themselves into the belief that by som
happy accident of fate peace nigh
come before the power of Prussianisr
was completely shattered. The soonc
all of us make up our minds that thi
thing must be fought through to a fms
the sooner it viii all be ended
Events of the last three weeks hav
proved that Germany is as completed
under the control of the general staff a
it was when the first German trooI
were thrown across the Belgian frontic
There has been no change, and the1
Will be no change until the Germa
armies are beaten and German might
shattered. The American people hay
no choice but to dedicate themselves
that task, cost what it may.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-10

Germany still holds to the opinion
that peace treaties are scraps of paper.
Peace was signed with Russia some
weeks ago, but the German troops CON
tinue tn invade the country, with the
evident intention of cutting off North
crn Russia from the interior. and max
ing the Arctic and Baltic seas inacces-
sible to a large part of the population.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-10
A HERO EVERY DAY
Brave Deeds of Men in Americas
Fighting Service.

John Harvey Stacks. fireman, third
class, [. S. navy, has been commended
for courage displayed during fire on
board o patrol boat. Stacks attached a
line to himself and went down the port
vcntilator with a frehose to help
quench the flames, though the fire was
then at It's height and smoke and steam
were pouring from the ventilatcr
Stacks enlisted August Is. 1916, at Dali
las, Texas, and gave as his next of kin
his mother, Mrs. Lois Z. Stacks, De
Queen, Arkansas.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-10
Cost What it Nav.

New Ofk w oftu.
There has been no wiser or sancr in
depreciation of President Wilson 5 Bal
timorc speech than the comment OF IL
Temps of Paris:
After year OF war the President
Of the United States is tired of dis
cassion with the puppets who com
pose the German government. Be
hind the chancellor, who was ready
20 accept in vague and uncertain
terms the American principles, be-
hind kuhlmann. who asserted at
Brest Litovsk the right OF peoples
to dispose of themselves, Wilson
shows the real masters Of Germany,
the military chiefs who laugh al all
principles and at all rights.
This is a faithful picture of the Gel
man system. The allies in this war ar
not dealing with responsible covers
ment as we understand government
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-10

~ dreams and also SO they'll hear
that there are no bad COLLINS, but only
nice. Jolly COLLINS.
az do believe the children in the
bedrooms Of This house arc dreaming
some Of our special dreams tonight.
"She threw kiss to each peacock,
and said, Now tell me the story YOU
promised me last time | came.
The peacocks could not look at
c#ch rther a> one was ut one end or
the books-;nd the other one at the
other end
The fairy noticed this at once, and
said, You might begin. peacock at TINS
end, and then when you pause, the
other Deacoeks will talk
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-10
Always In.

Miss Smith thought She would drop
in on young Mrs Jones is your mis-
tress in" she asked the young maid
She was shown into the drawing room
But an hour passed and no Mrs Jones
appeared At last the lady got up and
called to the maid: Did you tell your
mistress | was here"
Oh no, MSS replied the girl quickly
'she hasn't returned from shopping yet.
Not returned?" exclaimed the aston
ished visitor
NO, miss. You see, the mistress told
me she was always home to you."-
Stray Stories.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-10
TO THE SUBSCRIBER

II II the aim ~ the management e.
secure efficient service In the delivery Of
the paper each night. and Il soictts tht
co-Opera ton Of subscribers to that end
prompt reports should be given OF eacl
failure 20 receive the paper on the morn
NJ following the omission. in person
t. telephone o. postal card thus enahlinc
the cause of the error to be promptly
and accurately discovered and the prnpe,
ON dv immediately applied II IS ONLY
hy this method that the publisher cai
secure the desired serN tee
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-10

time, perhaps for hours. Efficiency in
business has now reached a point
where many men carrying a big bur
den are forced to meet people only by
appointment.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-10

The Rrfe~msr is on sa1a every evening
~ the following news dealers
e-atteboro. ErbtrlepDrD News Co G
W E'ea eel nd S. l. purintor E.steS 81
yi'ef Crooks House Pharmacy, Amen =
Depot Nsw4stau d. Mrs To- r Doyle
#prfa Atalr street
West 5rattleboro. 7 l. Stockwell
CAST Ounrerston, " r. Brown
o trey. " G. Williams
N"1"ane. - NJ Patch elder
TcNsnshend, f. W Tutlsr
Vest rownsneno r. ~ Grout
Jamaica p Dauqett
South Londonderry n Tyler
South Vernon Purum
Northfeld Mass Thavt psor Rroe
West chesterNeid ~ VI Mrs W
Streeter
Htosdale. N ~. LYMAN
Bellows Falls. pepoi Restaurant
Windsor VI, Win6snr Restaurant
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-10
TO ADVERTISERS.

Transient advertising-Run Of paper
so cents an inch for first insertion, Is
cents an inch for each subsequent inser-
ton Limited space on first page at
double rates
Space rates on application.
Classified advertisements-Five cents a
ine first insertion with 80 per cent dis
count for each subsequent insertion
without change Of copy
Reading Nottces-Ten cents per line
nrst Insertion with 50 per cent discount
for each subsequent insertion without
change Of copy.
Position 10 per cent extra
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-10
merber - ,re Associated eress.

The Associated Press is exclusively
entitled To the use FOR publication OF All
news dispatches credited to II end not
uthcrNiS. rcd ted In this paper and alsu
IRE local u.pu published herein
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1918-09-20
s Months Front
Line Duty Gives
Gold Sleeve Bar
Badge of Honorable Service at
Home Is Fourth Liberty
Loan Button

General Orders, No. 90. recently Is.
sued by the War Department In Wash.
ington, provide:
a gold cheyron to be worn
on the lower half OF the left sleeve
by each officer, field clerk and
enlisted man who has served six
months III theatre of operations dur.
ing the present war :"
war service badge-lbespeakIng
active participation In the conflict
abroad, What pride the wearer viii
feel, IN that little piece of adornment.
OF standard material and design!
To the onlookers, what honorg will
1t suggest; what endurance and yalory
Nar service badges are not to be
confined 10 the Army and Navy alone.
The great numbers of those who STAY
at home may have a badge of service
and distinction. With the issuing OF
the Fourth Liberty Loan button there
becomes available for every loval
American mark of war service. a
badge of honor for war work well
done.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1918-09-20
LEST WE FORGET
BENEFITS SECURED

r. c. MeCroskey of Garfield has
issued the following statement which
is self-explanatory:
! desire to call attention TO the
benefits that have accrued to the
wheat raisers in eastern Washington
from the efforts of the committees
sent to Washington, D. c., to obtain
an increase in the price of the 1917
crop, which was Is cents per bushel
and also to the increase that was
gained by the committee sent for the
1918 crop, which was also Is cents.
making 30 cents per bushel in all.
The proclamation of the President
recently fixing the price for the 1919
crop leaves the price at 1920 at Ia
coma, or the price that we had for
the 1918 crop thus enabling the
wheat raisers to obtain 30 cents more
per bushel for the 1918 and 1919
crops than we would have gotten.
had we lain supinely upon our backs
The member of the committee FROM
Whitman county for 1917 was c. l..
Mackenzie, and for 1919 was J. s
Klemgard The members from Spo-
kane for 1917 were A. L. Elmore, r.
lnsinger and r. ]. Stevens, and from
the same place for the 1918 crop
were f. 7. Conan, r. ], Stevens and
A. A. Gilmore. Sam Armstrong of
Seattle was our faithful friend on
both occasions. We should not be
unmindful of their efforts when we
are receiving 80 cents more for our
small crop than if we had not taken
up the matter with the administra-
ton.
r. c. McCROSKEY.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1918-09-20
TAXPAYERS SHOULD
STUDY THE FIGURES

Preliminary estimates made by the
commissioners to cover county eX-
penses for the year 1919 are ont and
1t behooves every tax payer TO look
them over carefully.
1t is interesting to compare the
estimates with the actual expendj-
lures of former years, which shows
in a startling way the extraordinary
rise in the cost OF government
For instance. the estimate for cor
rent expenses for the year 1919 is
$4,000. or IS per cent greater than
were the actual expenses Tor the year
1917 and 50 per cent greater than
were the average annual expenses for
the eight years Immediately proceed
ing the year 1918.
Estimates for the road districts
are $132,43S, or SO per cent greater
than was the actual expense for 1917
and A per cent greater than the
eight-year average.
Estimates for the road and bridge
fund is $133,SS0 or 169 per cent
greater than was the actual expense
in 1917 and 164 per cent greater
than the eight-year average.
Comparison of the estimates with
the eight-year average of some of the
more important funds shows; com
missioners expense up 40 per cent;
auditor up 40 per cent: treasurer up
SO per cent; assessor mp Is per cent;
engineer up 10 per cent; sheriff up
80 per cent
Some of the increase in the current
expense estimate can be accounted
for by reason of the introduction of
lew activities, such as the agricul-
turist and the nurse. These activ-
tiles are in the nature of experiments
and their retention of course depends
upon their demonstrated usefulness
In order that We may arrive at an in
telligent conclusion regarding these
new activities ! should like To receive
a letter of particulars from every per.
son in Whitman county who has de
rived a direct tangible benefit from
either. | feel sure that all who have
received such benefit will be only toe
glad TO testify to the fact.
RALPH COMEGYS.
President Tax Payers Association
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1918-09-20
CHILDREN RUN TO
SOLDIER PALS AT
ARMY MESS CALL
French Tots Share Yankee Sol
diers' acknowledgements
War Parts Great
By Mrs. Hazel PedIar Faulkner

The little children in this neighbor.
hood have learned to distinguish the
mess call.
Immediately 1t is sounded, they
tronp ont from every conceivable cor
ner, taking their places around the
men watching with eager, hungry eyes
every bite that is dished out. A fellow
can't eat his prunes very comfortably
with such an audience, and the men
here have divided every meal with
these little fellows, who are the chill
dren OF men saving France"
A home town private, one of the
Engineers who has been building rail.
armies IN France, sent that message
home He is one of the men who has
been dividing his daily ration Of soup
and beans Of meat and prunes with
the children who are the soul of
France
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1918-09-20
CAN'T STOP SHORT
OF BERLIN GOAL.

1t would be a sorry ending of a jour
ney 10 have America stop short OF Ber-
lin. 1t is uncomfortable that our sol
dlers should stop short of that goal.
Can YOU, women Of the West, pause In
the great task which has been set for
yon2 Can YOU halt for an instant in
the face Of the oountry's need?
viii all of those planned purchases
weigh in the scale with the call which
comes ringing across from those plains
where the boys are fighting? 1t is to
keep Your boy on the march toward
the final goal that the Government
asks You to lend 1t your utmost.
I regret that | have but one life to
give for my country" said Nathan
Hale. as he ascended the enemy's
gallows.
Ours is the task to save lives for
our country, to save by lending our all
at its request. The Fourth Liberty
Loan gives American mothers and sis
ters new opportunity to make impos.
sible regret that they had but one
chance to give.
The Fourth Liberty Loan is ours.
What is our utmost? The country
awaits our answer.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1918-09-20
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

The Christian Science society holds
services every Sunday morning at
ll;OO o'clock in the new Masonic
hall. Subject of the lesson-sermon
Tor next Sunday, Substance"
Testimonial meetings are heln
every Wednesday evening at 500
O'Clock in the Masonic hall. A free
reading room is open to the public
every afternoon from 200 to 400
O'Clock at 226 First National Bank
building. All authorized Christian
Science literature may there be read
or borrowed.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1918-09-20
DAT AND WHEAT STRAW

For sale on farm or delivered, o.
81 wagon, horses and a few snos
sep13-27 J.J. VAN BRUGGES'
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1918-09-20
SMOKES

When the cold is making ice cream
OF the marrow of your bones.
When you're shaking like jelly and
your feet are dead as stones.
When your clothes and boots and
blankets and your rifle and your
kit,
Is soaked from hell to breakfast, and
the dugout where YOU sit
Is leaking like a basket, and upon
the muddy floor
The water lies in filthy pools. six
inches deep or more:
Tho life seems cold and mis- 'rable.
and all the world is wet,
You'll always get through somehow
if you get a cigarette.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1918-09-20

RENT LOWERED will rent ~
six-room cottage in College Faia
lower rental by 20 per cent 'nas
heretofore to right party; house -.
furnace, fireplace, range, ihOo !,
conveniences and large garage. clna'
family could rent two large upps
rooms for almost price OF house a.
A Bryan, Boise, Idaho. aso0sf
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1918-09-20

Pledge7 1' al '9"'ihss
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1918-09-20

FOR SALE-Young horse. oe
tween four and five years; broke to
work. Address 407 W. Main.
aug9-23
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1918-09-20

BUY WAR SAVING STAMPS.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1918-09-20

Will you have rooms for college
women Call "a. stp6-20
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1918-09-20

Tears filled the soldiers eyes.
Though brave and true was he
FOR he was peeling onions
By the hour on K. p.
Stars and stripes-A. E. +.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1918-10-11

threshed for each farmer, the acreage
devoted TO each kind of grain, and
the charges for threshing. Inaddition
blanks have been supplied for making
monthly reports to the county agent
Ii there is any thresher in the county
who has not received the above, he
should inform the county agent at
once so the supplies may be sent out
and the record made complete.
Most of the reports for September
have been sent in, but this opportun-
ity is taken to remind the other
threshers that this is government
. work, and when neglected holds up
the report for the whole county. Each
county agent in the United States is
expected to assemble the monthly re-
ports on wheat for his own county
and to telegraph the totals to the
bureau OF markets, Washington, d.
c.. not later than the 5th of each
month.
1t is requested that threshermen
give this matter their earnest atten-
ton otherwise much needless time
and work will be required in getting
the information from them
Walter A. Holt, County Agent.