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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-15
HOUSING OF GROWING CHICKS.
More Important than Generally Realized
with Respect 10 Viger.

If ono desires strong, vigorous birds
IN the fall, the proper housing of grow
ing chicks is far more important than
generally realized The fact that the
chicks need more house room and ven.
tilation as they grow older is an essen,
tial factor Very often crowding in
warm weather is contributing cause
for roup as it is followed by night
sWeats which, in turn, result in the
chicks catching cold when they 90 into
the wet grass in the morning. A con-
slant recurrence of this condition is
conductive of deep-seated colds and
finally roup. Crowding also leads to
cann1balism, stunts growth, and very
frequently kills the weaker chicks
Chicks which are eight weeks of age at
this time of year do not need any arti-
fetal heat; fresh air is of greater inn
portance. The chicks are only in the
house or shelter during tho night, and
all they require IS protection from wet
weather and marauders
The prime essentials in the housing
of growing chicks are fresh air. dryness,
sunlight and space enough to be com
Portable. If the chicks arc to be put
in house formerly occupied by hens or
chicks, remove all cobwebs. take away
the earth for six or eight inches, fumi-
gate and disinfect thoroughly, and re-
fill with clean sand and litter. 1t means
a little work, to be sure, but it is time
well spent; and the health of your
chicks will more than repay you. Re-
move the cockerels as SOON as they can
be determined. as this permits them to
grow faster. Another point that is i'm
portant: Do not move the pullets any
more than is absolutely necessary. 1t is
well-known fact that moving a pull
let when she is about to lay retards her
carly laying, as well as her growth;
the fright caused by frequent moving
of young stock interferes with their
proper digestion and assimilation of
food. apd thereby results in their slow
and uneven development. Practical
ponltrymen realize this fact aud very
often brood their late Matched chicks in
their next winter quarters. In that
way they gain two or three weeks in
their growth which means early layers
sometimes directly competing with the
| earlier Matched chicks.
| In case YOU have to build, no par
! ticular type of house is peculiarly
/ adapted to all conditions. For a do
| tailed description, specifications. etc.
! of several different houses, write to
your county agent, or to the extension
service of the University of Vermont
Burlington, for free Farmers Bulletin
No. 574 and No $780, When through us
ing them let your neighbor read them
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-15
BRATTLEBORO

Tomorrow will be observed as Chill
dron 5 day in the Methodist church,
Lymans orchestra of Hinsdale will
play for the dance at Island park to-
night.
Arthur Barrett went today to Lyndon
vile to stay two weeks at Camp Vail, the
boys agricultural camp.
a meeting of the local thrift stamp
committee will be held tonight to make
further arrangements for the campaign
in Brattleboro, consequently the outline
of the PLAN promised for today, will be
printed Monday instead
The spring issue of the vermonter
contains an article on the late Senator
Hermon E. Eddy of this town. Tie ar
tiele, which is nearly four pages long
was written by Martin S. Villas and is
accompanied by halftonc picture OF
Mr.. Eddy.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-15
BARRE Times. J

The disparity between the allotment
of anthracitc coal to Vermont for he
winter of l9lsl9 by tho national fuel
administrator and tho cxar>ssed wants
of the people cf the State Indicates thai
MANY people will have to burn wood or
GO hcatlcss at some rimc through tho
next cold weather The desires OF fac
people arc far greater than the amount
apportioned to the state. And inasmuch
AS there seems to BE- little chance of get
ting the national fuel administrator ia
increase the allotment to be equal to
tho demand it behooves Vermont people
to turn their attention toward getting
up woodpilc for their own use or for
sale. Many Vermont people are in pc
sitlon to do this and, moreover, the
heating apparatus of their homes IS such
that wood is almost as good as coal
Therefore, prudence cautions that the
Vermont woodpiles should grow rapidly
in the months intervening before the
advent of cold weather
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-15

FELL 1000 FEET.
But Lieutenant Pat O'Brien Sustained
Only Minor Injuries.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, June 10
Lieut.. Pat OBrien Of Momence, ILL.,,
British royal flying corps, who survived
a battle with four German airplanes, was
taken prisoner leaped from moving
train, wandered more than two months
through enemy territory and who finally
reached Holland and safety, is now suf-
tering a broken nose caused by the
second fall of his adventurous career.
According to observers it resulted when
lac, took liberties with student training
type of airplane at Kelly field
apparently 0Brien's only injury after
q 1000 foot fall in nose dive was a
broken nose, but Kelly field physicians
refused to allow him to leave the hos
pital for Houston lest it develop that he
also was injured internally
OBlen, on lecture tour has been
tying at different aviation camps in the
United States This morning he was
gwen plane of the type used for train
ing students. 1t is much heavier than
the single seated machines used as scout
planes in the British army, and mis-
calculations of the machines weight and
speed, is blamed by O'Bren for his fall
while attempting aerial gymnastics.
Two thousand feet from the ground
the plane sideslipped and 'Brien was un
able to right it. The machine landed
nose downward in soft earth. O'Brer
climbed out badly shaken and bleeding
freely but Joking, and after a few min
utes said he was ready for travel
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-15
SOUTH NEWFANE.

The community singing Thursday eve
ming was much enjoyed. About so at
tended. Next Thursday evening there
will be another singing.
There will be a meeting for Red Cross
sewing next Tuesday afternoon at
clock to which all womcn interested
in the work, whether members of the
Red Cross soeiety or not, are invited
The meeting will be held in the Casino
at Dexter hall, Mr.. and Mrs. f. Miltof
Dexter having kindly offered the use OF
the building for this purpose. Those
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-15
SEA GULLs DETECT U-BoATs.
Have Proved to Be of Great Assist.
a1cc To Allied Fleets.


Great Britain is being aided in hunt
ing down the T-boats by the sea gulls.
50 useful have the birds shown them
elves that a law has been passed which
provides for severe penalties for killing
q gull.
The gnlls will cluster about yes
sci passino through The Irish Sea for
Instance. If submarine appears any
where in the neighborhood the birds de-
teet It at once and nv in great numbers
to the scene of the commotion on the
ocean surface.
- The antics of the sea gulls are OBJ
.cfved by the navigating officers on the
ship and the armed guard prepares to
fight. In man. cases in which the gun
ners have cred at the point where the
ghlls are dipping into the crest of the
waves it has proved that submarine
was preparing to come up and take an
observation by periscope. The gulls are
never attracted in great groups to any
particular spot, the seamen have learned,
unless there is a great run of fish. The
sailors explain that the gulls are at
tfacted to the German submarines be-
cause the imagine that the dark blotch
on the water represents school OF
small fishes swimming close to the sur
face. The gunners, accordingly, point
! the guns at the section of the water
over which the birds are lowering.
All along the dockyards and other
water front places of Great Britain
placards have been affixed warning fish
ermcn that the sea gull is a great, big
voluntary friend of Great Britain in
her fight against the U-boats ~ New
York Sun
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-15
DEATHS.

In Brattleboro, June IA, Alexander
Walker (colored), of Cambridge, Mass.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-15

ADVERTISE IN THE REroRMER.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-15
Patriotic Doctrine.

DIR. John Thompson, the eminent di-
vine and pulpit orator Of Chicago, ILL.,,
assures his fellow Methodsts that every
man who dies for his country is saved,
no matter how many cnsswords he used
or how many cigarettes he smoked, and
by the great hornspoon, as Mr.. Bowser
used to say, we are now a Methodist -
Ohio State Journal.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-15
DUMMERSTON.

The Grange benefit society of Evening
Star Grange will have its annual straw
berry supper and dance June 81 The pro-
ceeds will be given to the Red Cross. Ly-
mans orchestra of Hinsdale will furnish
music.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-15

attending the meeting should bring their
own sewing kits.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-15

More than 100000 acres of coal
land in IA states of the United States
are to be opened in 1918.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-15

Some men make speciality of doing
others they are dunned by.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-05-23
By DR.. FRANK A

= @aS* e9s ~~ass &&laaSsas& ~ >Nr
The Red Cross is the Long Arm of Mercy.
1t is the Kindness of Mankind-organized.
In Man is an Angel and a Devil, a DR.. Jekyll and Mr..
Hyde. The Red Cross is the Good, aroused, energized to
thwart the Bad.
1t is the best antidote we know to the bane of war.
There are other Charities, more or less helpful. The
Red Cross is the %mightiest of all Charities, the Love and Pity
of all men made supremely efficient.
If, as Emerson said, sensible men and conscientious
men all over the world are of one religion" this is the ex.
preston of that religion.
The Red Cross is Humanity united in Service.
1t asks no mans opinion; only his need.
Black or White, Friend or Foe, to the Red Cross there
is no differences; it only asks: "Whois Suffering?" And
to him it goes.
The Red Cross is so Efficient that Governments recog-
nize it; so Pure in its purpose that whoever wishes we'll his
fellow men, desires to help it; so Clean in it's administration
that the most suspicious can find no fault in it.
The Red Cross not only seeks to alleviate the cruelties
of War; it is the expression Of those human sentiments that
some day will put an end to War.
1t is the impulse of Love, striving to overcome the i'm.
pulse of Hate.
1t is Mercy's cooperation struggling against Wars ri
valries.
1t is the one Society in which every Man, Woman and
Child should be enrolled; for it knows no sects, no preju-
dices, no protesting opinion; the human being does not live
that does not feel that the starving should be fed, the sick
tended and the wounded healed.
Majestic and divine is this Long Arm of Mercy; it finds
the fallen on the battlefield, it brings the nurse and the
physician to the victim in the hospital; it leads the weeping
orphan to a home; it feeds the starving, cares for the pest
smitten whom all Others abandon, and pours the oil of Help
and Pity into the bitter wounds of the World.
Where a volcano has wrought desolation in Japan, or a
Flood in. China, or a Hurricane in Cuba, or a Famine in
India, or a Plague in Italy, or %ravaging Armies in Poland,
Servia or Belgium, there flies the Red Cross, the Angel of
God whom the fury of men cannot Danish from the Earth;
and to the Ends of the Earth, over all the ways of the Seven
Seas, wherever is Human Misery, there is extended, to bless
and to heal, its Long Arm Of Mercy.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-05-23
BY
Margaret Widdemer
OF the Vigilantes.

drawing coffee from a big marmite as
fast as l could fill cups and, pointing
to his pipe, said, 'Tobac, tobac.' l
said, DO you want some tobacco?' He
seemed stunned for a moment and
then said: DO you know it nearly
gave me a fit to hear you speak Eng
fish. I haven't heard a woman speak
English in five months He said he
had been walking about in the cold
since four O'Clock last night. He
couldn't find a hotel or a bright light
because, of course, everything is closed
and darkened on account of the bonn
bardments. The Americans are
very fond of ham sandwiches. They
eat much more than the French SOL
diers, and when they first came in and
ordered six eggs apiece it caused con-
sternation throughout the land. The
funniest thing 81 all is to hear the
Sammies grandly urging these wealthy
English girls to keep the change-oh,
keep the change! We start the
day at five and work continuously I'M
til nine, when three fresh cantinieres
relieve US. At five we 60 on for the
evening shift from five to eight, anG
it is the most exciting and exhaustint
Of the shifts. There is a certain time
when they come down on us like 6
food, eight or ten deep around thu
counter and three or four hundred al
together in this little room, al eager
and tired as schoolboys."
The foregoing letter indicates tina
our soldiers look to the Red eros
Canteen as an oasis in a desert. The.
would not have 1t If 1t were not 70
your Red Cross.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-05-23

The following extracts are taken
from a letter written by a Red Gross
Canteen worker, Helen McElhone, an
American woman and college graduate
now located in a district almost con-
stantly under bombardment:
"Foyer des Allies,
"Bar-le-Duc.
Things look very black to me. I
am discouraged at the big outlook of
affairs and also at my small doings,
but it may be the blackness that comes
before dawn. Let US hope So. Our
men certainly need help now as much
as the poilus. I am beginning to
see those who have been at the
front. In fact, l am beginning to see
some Of the results Of this life. They
are sick and homesick, and worse
thugs have happened to them. Sew.
erAl have said All we ask Is to get tc
the front and do what we have to do
Anything Is better than this life. (.
This morning we had more Americans
than I have see before at one time
One came up to me here as ! wal
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-05-23
WOMEN ASK FOR
RAT|0N|NG plan.
American Women Volunteer to
Buy Fixed Amounts of Meat,
Bread Flour, Sugar.
and Butter.
PLAN STARTED IN NEW YORK.
Idea Supplements U. $; Food Admins
tration's New Home Card Now
In 100000 Homes.

The women Of America, who are
anxious to do their great part in the
winning Of the war, are now, as a
whole, familiar with the most impor-
tant aspects Of food conservation. The
Home Card, both in it's original form
and in the revised edition for 1918,
which provides for two wheatless days,
n meatless day a week, in addition
to a wheatless meal every day, has been
placed by the Food Administration aft
er a vigorous campaign in 100000 900
American homes. An intelligent and
conscientious observance of the Home
Cards requirements is all the Food
Administration asks of the housewives
of the country.
The Food Administration has had a
great many requests, however, particu-
larry from the homes of the Well-to-do,
that it should issue a worked out plan
for a voluntary system of %rationing.
This desire for a voluntary ration
springs from two causes-first, be.
cause 1t is far simpler for the house
wife to save food when she has a con-
crete working plan by which to pro-
coed, and, second, because the loyal
women of America desire, unseIfishIy,
to put themselves on the same basis
as the women of the Allied countries.
The ration proposed by the Food Ad-
ministration is almost the same as
that adopted In England for voluntary
observance. All over the United King
dom, in hundreds Of houses there
hangs in the front window a card with
the stirring pIedue. "IN HONOR
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-05-23
Beautiful Feet in Hartford,

We have observed that a large ma
residential streets in this time of snow
and ice wear o%vershoes of some kind
and that the large majority of women
do not. Whether it is woman suffrage
or plain recklessness that accounts for
this difference we cannot say. 1t can
nor be because overshoes are unbe-
coming to a woman, for those wearing
them look very trsm.-Hartford Conr-
ont.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-05-23

BOUND WE ADOPT THE NATION
AL SCALE OF VOLUNTARY RAJ
:TIoNs."
The ration recommended by the
Food Administration, and adopted first
in New York city, whence the idea has
spread through the entire country, Is
the following:
Weekly
{ Allowance
Per Person.
Meat-Beef (fresh, sailed, tin
ned and hashed) /; mutton, :
lamb and veal (mutton by -,
preference) .............. 2h lbs.
Butter u lib.
Cooking Fats margarine, lard,
lard substitutes, vegetable
oils) u lib.
Wheat Flour (for use in cook.
ing gravies, etc., where
corn starch, cracker dust !
or bread crumbs cannot be i
substituted) .........I... u lib.
Victory Bread Containing at
least 20 per cent. Of a SUBJ
stitute for wheat four).... IL lbs.
Sugar %(ncluding all sugar
used on the table and in
cooking and all sweatmeats
and candies, but not that
used for canning and pre-
serving) q lib.
The items listed above are the only
ones which are definitely limited. In
the case of milk and cream, as much
may be used as necessary, and chill
dren, Of course, must have their full
allowance of whole milk. Fish and
poultry, any cereal other than wheat,
vegetables and fruits and cheese may
be used as freely as is desired.
The above ration is in no wise in
tended to supplant the Home Card,
but rather to supplement it. It has
been published with the idea that it
will be a very real aid to the Ameri-
can woman in her splendid effort to
carry out the great food conservation
program.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-05-23
WHY COAL USERS
IN THIS STATE
MUST ORDER now
Mines Must Be Kept Going Full
Time in Spring and Summer
to Prevent Serious Short
age Next Winter.
IMMEDIATE ACTION URGED.

Mar Who Does Not Thus Cooperate
With Fuel Administration and Rail-
roads Takes His Place With the
y
Stacker Who Dodges Service at the
Front or Refuses to Buy Bonds.
The evening leader., 1918-11-15
NOW AND THEN.

Herr Matthias Erzberger asked for
a cessation of hostilities in the inter-
est of humanity.-Cable report.
This being the same Herr Matthias
Erzberger who, in a newspaper ar
ticle published in 1915, wrote over his
own signature:
The greatest ruthlessness is in real
ity the greatest humanity. If it should
be possible to destroy the whole of
Londcn that would be more humane
than to allow one of our fellow coun-
trynen to bleed to death on the bat
tlefeld, because such a radical cure
would lead most speedily to peace.
England has stolen from us more than
four hundred merchant ships. The
answer to this should be that for
every German merchantmen one Eng
lish town or village will be destroyed
by our airmen.-Clearwater Sun.
The evening leader., 1918-11-15

called on Americans to complete the
war savings campaign by subscribing
the full quotas allotted to each county,
as there is not a county inFlorida
which has subscribed its full quota of
war savings stamps.
There will be a state wide campaign
to this end during Thanksgiving week.
The name of every person who pur-
chases stamps during this week will
be recorded in a book sent to General
Pershing. This is being done in many
states, and will furnish record which
in years to come will prove of great
interest to the general.
In this county soliciting committees
will call on every individual during
the week, and ask that individual to
either buy for cash at the time of be-
ing solicited, or pledge to buy on OF
before Thanksgiving Day, as it may
not be convenient for some to buy at
the time they are solicited. No man,
woman or child who is able to do it,
has done their full duty to the gov
ernment and the boys in France until
they. purchase at least $40 worth of
war savings stamps, in addition to all
liberty bonds.
It is pointed out by State Director
Griggs that there is tendency of the
people now to relax their efforts to
complete the job we undertook April
year ago, and he calls attention to
the evils of this tendency and the diff
ficulties it may bring the government
face to face with if the securities
are not purchased, and the means pro-
vided for bringing the boys back home
and for maintaining those who will
necessarily have to remain in France
for some time yet.
Everybody is urged to purchase war
savings stamps. and to make a record
Of such purchase, so that it may be
recorded.
The evening leader., 1918-11-15
MERCY MUNITIONS
NEEDED IN TRENCHES
Lieut.. Coningsby Dawson, Fight
ing Author, Makes Stirring
Appeal for Y. w. C. A.

Lieut.. Coningsby Dawson, who wrote
"Carry On" says of the war work
which the Y. w. G. A. is doing: "You
at home cannot fight with your lives,
but you can fight with your mercy.
The Y. W. G. A. is offering you just
this chance. 1t garrisons the women's
support trenches, which lie behind the
mems. 1t asks you to supply them
with munitions of mercy that they
may be passed on to u.s. We need
such supplies badly. Give generously
that we may the sooner defeat the
Hun"
What Lieut. Dawson says of the Y.
w. G. A. he might have said Of all the
national organizations which are COM
ing together for the biggest financial
campaign that organizations have ever
headed. All the $170500,0O0> to be
raised by the seven great national or
ganizations the week of November IL
wilk be used to garrison and supply
the support trenches behind the lines.
They are the Y. NJ G. A., the Y. W.
G. A., the National Catholic War Coun-
cd, Jewish Welfare Board, American
Library Association, War Camps Com
rnunity Service and Salvation Army.
American girls in various uniforms
mingle strangely with picturesque
Brittany costumes In France. The
American Y. w. G. A. has a hostess
house in Brittany where the Signal
CorDS women live and a huf Uharo
the nurses spend their free time. Both
these centers are fitted with many of
the comforts and conveniences of
home.
SAT a tea given at the nurses hut
one Saturday afternoon" writes Miss
Mabel Warner, of Salina, Kansas, Y.
W. G. A. worker there, "there was an
odd gathering-one admiral, bishop,
a Presbyterian minister, a Roman
Catholic priest, a doctor, an ensign,
one civilian and myself"
The evening leader., 1918-11-15

uel. Crew, Mr.. Davies, Paris Sakel-
larides, D. Morrison, Miss Kate Nc
Creary, Mrs. Frances Williams. -
Ward 2. Captain, Miss Matte Fer
nald. Crew, Mrs. S. B. Parken, J. r.
West, L. S. Fernald.
Ward 8. Captain, Alexander Linn.
Crew, DIR. A. P. Albaugh, Mrs. A. E.
Gammage, Mrs. R. T. Jones.
Ward a. Captain, Miss Nena
Thompson. Crew, Mrs. w. D. Fletch-
er, Mrs. C. D. Stinson, j. S. Register.
Ward S. Captain, J. C. Beekman.
Crew, Mrs. Frank Heynen, Mrs. H. E.
Slauson, Mrs. Jim Smith, J. R. Dur
rance, Rev. H. B. Robinson.
Others will be added to the crews
as the captains find need of additional
help.
In charge at the Board of Trade
will be J. A. Lutz, authorized to take
volunteer subscriptions handed to him.
Every man, woman and child in Tar
pom Springs will be asked to come in
on this first great reconstruction
drive-like no other in the history of
the world.