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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-17

for art pottery, and fine cabinet max
ing. Real skill in one of these handi-
crafts is an immense asset to a man
whose leg has been amputated. The
school at Venice takes advantage Of
this and teaches its cripples its ia
m0as crafts of stamped leather and
wrought iron.
Since most Of the men are going
back to tiny villages where there are
no large factories, the aim is to teach
them some occupation which they can
follow at home with but little to start
dlip IN Addition to the trades mem
| toned there are house painting, harness
making, and tinEering, taught in some
| of the largest schools, as at Milan.
: Those who can find work in the large
| industrial towns Of the north are
trained as chautfeurs or merchants.
| "All the schools have employment
committees. In eases where men &c
back to large cities, employers have
been found anxious to help. The Ital
ian Electro Technical Society. for in
stance, publishes i'll its official gazette
the names Of firms who can employ
eripples, the positions open, and what
TYPES Of cripples may fill them.
Farming is, of course, one of tn,
most important occupations Of all. Ant
to the Italian peasant, because IN SOM
Iparts of Italy modern methods are al
most unknown The school at Milan
the largest and most scientific of all, i
planning large farm colony; Turii
offers courses at neighboring agri
cultural institute And Palermo, i
Sicily, has made the Creates progress
in agricultural instruction
The Red Gross Institute in New Yor
has already opened a special employ
ment bureau for the disabled. and
anxious, Mr. McMurtrie adds, to obtai
from employers suggestions as to poss
= bic jobs which cripples might fill
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-17
SUGAR PROFITEER
USED A PUSHCART
Sold 10000 Pounds at Wholesale at
High Prices, Although He Had Not
Taken Out a License.

NEW YORK, Jan. 17-Charles T.
Robinson, coAnsel to the federal food
board, is digging into the business ac-
tivities of Isidor Nelson of l0l st.
Mark s place, who, although never 4
sugar dealer, got into the sugar game
without license and sold that com
modify as a wholesaler with the aid of
pushcart.
Nelson has admitted that he bought
his supply of sugar direct from his
brother-in-law in New Orleans His
first shipment consisted Of 200
pounds, the second of 5000 pounds and
the third Of 5.2l0 pounds, or a total
Of 10000 pounds. He is accused of
having disposed Of his supplies to re-
tailers at from / to il cents a pound
1t is believed the food administrators
will turn the case over 10 the United
states attorney.
Alan Fox, head Of the license div
sion will 90 TO Ossinihg on Saturday
TO preside at a hearing in the ease u
/ G. &. NJ. Finkelstein, 19l Main street
charged with retailing sugar at l:
cents a pound.
Arthur Williams, federal food I'd
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-17
suifh one egg
without butter

all, the peasant boys who come here,
seeing a great city perhaps for the INST
time in their lives, are hardly laore
than big babies They have hardly
anything that could De called an odu
cation, and the kindly discipline OF
primary school suits them perfectly.
"Thc general arrangement is that the
schools should be organized and sup
ported by private means, the govern
ment giving their directors honorary
military rank and assigning to the in
sritut3ons soldiers stiii J,ptd efo army orr
aers-dircct from the field hospitals.
| This makes the learning of trade part
| Of u man $ military duty. The gov
eminent pays the schools 20 cents Il
| day for each soldiers board, and the
school generally gives him about 20
cents day for his work Some of this
he is given to spend and the rest is
put away for him so that when he
leaves he has little capital. The gov
crnment supplies him with an artificial
limb made to fit his individual needs,
and, if it be an arm, the school often
gives him the tools which can be fitted
to it. Some Of Italy S most famous
I
sign and fitting OF artificial limbs.
} d" Italy s problem in training these
crippled soldiers is somewhere different
from that Of her allies. 1t is still large
lv an agricultural country; in some
districts az many as 90 per cent of the
soldiers are farm workers. And unit
! short time ago Italy has not had com
B., pulsory military education, SO tina
, when il comes to training a wounded
1pldier the first question must Away
q he, 'Can he read and write? AS
p rule, these young war cripples belon;
r 80 the very simplest peasant class. The.
, know little of the country outside thei
=, own villages; they can imagine no oc
IL cupation but the common ones of she's
e maker, tailor, or postoffice employ'
Az a rule, it is the latter job whic
they long for. Whether they can rea
or not they confidently expect that tn
government will employ them III il
u telegraph system or its postotfice, :
s. at least in the sale of salt and tobacco
IT both of which are monopolies.
n - In the matter of trades suited
" cripples, a crountry like Italy, where il
"a dustry is not vet centralized, has man
"a possibilities Many of the old hand
W crafts still flourish and constitute IL
n main dependence of certain district
rs OF course, every town has room for
~ taller and a shoama ker. and thei
~ trades are taught in all the school
re- often with the addition of saddlery al
ne basket weaving. Besides this. mar
~ districts are famous for woodcarvil
III or wood inlay, for artistic bookbindin
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-17
New Food Bill in Congress
Aims Especially at HO-
tells and Restaurants
NO MORE STEAKS
AT EIGHT DOLLARS
Representative Lever Also Says There
Is Strong Demand for Fixing Prices
Heavy Penalties for Failure to
Abide by Proclamation.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.-Redicai
enlargement of the powers of the food
administration IS planned by the adj
ministration Bills have been intro
duced in the senate and house by Sen
ator Pomerene and Representative
Lever respectively carrying out the
IDEAS of the administration
The bill would clothe the President
with power to restrict the use, manu-
, faeture and sale of any foodstuffs, feed
! or material necessary for foods If it
| becomes necessary in the interests II
the war. For failure to abide by the
proclamation Of the President in such
/ q ease or to obey the regulations he
would be empowered to make it pun
ishable by a fine of $1,000 or six years
III Jail or both. 1t is provided that the
provisions of the act shall cease auto
| maticallv with the end of the war, ont
that prosecutions for infractions of the
new law may proceed after the close
| of the war
In introducing the bill in the house
Representative Lever said:
''Tha food situation the world over
is acute and demands upon us are grow
ing each day. With a disrupted labor
situation, production is approaching it,
maximum and the vital question there
fore is one Of the conservation of food
stuffs. We must strike at the vast,
lcvil.
1.-The administration has undertaken
: TO do this through voluntary agree
mants and has succeeded wonderfully
we'll both in saving and in stabilizins
prices. but there is a percentage O
recaleitrants who constitute the fly II
| the ointment of the whole situation
and these we have not been able t,
2 reach by appeals TO their patriotism
e We propose to reach these under tn
b bill which Senator Pomerene and | ar
n introducing.
t THE bill is especially aimed at he
Z feTs, RESTAURANTS and dining cars-puF
$ lie eating places. In such establish
E ments should think probably 50 pc
l. cent of the food of the country is cor
e sumed, and il is in such places tina
g we find the greatest waste. Their
should be power in the hands of tn
II food administration to fix the portion
o of tho vital necessities that NAV /
e served to any one individual. There
i absolutely no excuse for any hotel ca
n rying on its bill of fare for seryi,
C to one person steak which would so
y IS n $l0-the waste is too great
1t eve hope also in this bin to St
TO il that all classes of people, nc
le or Foor. are treated alike. 1t is n
Id fair to the man on the street who "a
lie not afford steak at so cents for Il
l. commanding rich to waste enough
II, one meal TO feed q whole family
Is poor.
III "There is no idea of price fixing
RI it, although | recognize that there
i'll strong demand for the fixing
IS prices in public eating places, and II
phase will be considered by the col
rll mittee when the bill is taken up FOR
y detailed discussion.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-17
Oh! That Awful Backache
It's Your Kidneys

An unhealthy body. and the unhappi-
ness and misery which follow. may be
prevented by ordinary judgment and care
Keep your stomach and kidneys in shape
and you will have good health. The kid
ncys' work is to throw off the poisonous
matters which enter the body Ii they
perform this work regularly and auto
maticaly the other organs will take care
OF themselves
Diseased conditions of the bladder or
kidneys are Indicated By nervousness,
sleeplessness, that tired wornout feeling.
dizziness. nausea. backache. lumbago,
rheumatism. pain in the lower abdomen
many so-called female troubles severe
pain and discomfort when urinating
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-17
CARE OF SOLDIERS
CRIPPLED IN WAR
ayof aft tfrJ .tlfulI buG MOTT
Making Plans for the Care
and Re-educatiOn of the
Wounded Americans
ITALIAN LEAD IN
IMPORTANT WORK
Makes the Learning of a Trade Part
Of Military Mans Duty-Those
Going Back to Small Villages to Fol
low Occupations at Home.

NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-THE Amer
can Red Cross Institute for Crippled
Soldiers and Sailors 81 Fourth avenue,
of which Douglas G.. McMurtrie is the
director, is making plans for the care
and re-cducation of the wounded Amer
lean soldiers and sailors abroad. For
the intelligent placement of such men
the Red Cross Institute has appealed
to the philosophical employers of the
country for advice and cooperation.
.Iu July. 1916" saws Mr.. McSIur-
tHr, .'thFrc had been permanently
crippled by service at the front 5000
Italian soldiers How many were dis
ablcd during the last disastrous year
has not vet been calculated. But in
Italy, as in other countries, the now
gospel is being spread: No man need
bee cripple unless he wishes to, and
Those who have been disabled in the
war must be fitted TO take their part
in the work of the nation This means
that the duty of any country toward
Us crippled soldiers is not done dntil
thcv have had. not only hospital care
and q pcnson. but artificial limbs, the
knowledge of how to use them, and an
education that will fit them to support
themselves at some useful trade.
This is a new point of view tc
MANY pcoulc all over the world, bu'
n il justified bv results. The old idea
was TO find for the crippled soldier
some soft government post, where h
could be honored and inefficient 10,
lite. Garibaldi : veterans were treat
cd SO; in 1917 the new ideal Il II
force. At schools Of re-cducation q
Bologna, Florence, Genoa, Milan, Pal
crluo, Rome. and Venice, men ar
trained to some trade which they caI
masier and are sent home ready t
h"reme useful and happy members o
sociefv
The outward surroundings Of thes
schools are as beautiful and genial a
one would expect Sometimes they ar
housed IN spacious old palaces, some
times in converts. and always SUI
rounded Hv gardens. Pictures q
crippled settlers from no country i
Europe show uch smiling faces as tn
Italians. II may be that II is Ill
southern nature to smile, but il is ais
true that the citizens Of every tow
whore there is cripple school folia
tho gracious Italian custom Of maxim
he whole soiouru Of the returned 8,
dier as much like a JOYOUS fete as no
Sihle. This does not in the leas. into
tere VITA systematic work. AS ri
the schools arc under military autho
~, qpd The di4fplinc is strict Aft
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-17

bloody, cloudy and 'stringy urine. too fire.
quent or suppressed passages. All these
are natures signal to warn you of dis
oased kidneys or bladder, which may lead
10 fatal Brights disease
Don't wait until the danger is upon
you. Go to your druggist az once Get a
trial box OF GOLD MEDAL HARLEM oil
Capsules They are made of the pure
original. imported Harlem Oil. the kind
capsules each day will keep you toned up
and feeling fine. Money refunded if they
do not help you. But remember TO ask
for the imported GOLD MEDAL brand
In sealed packages, pc, soc and slO0
Adv
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-17
DO MOTHERS ERR?

When we hear of so many school
girls and girls III stores and offices who
are often totally unfit to perform their
daily duties because Of some derange-
ment peculiar to their sex, might this
not have been prevented by the mother
who, perhaps through neglect or careless
ness, failed to get for that daughter the
one great root and herb remedy for such
ailments, Lydia +. Pinkham s Veg
etable Compound? This oldfashioned
medicine is said to have alleviated
more suffering of womankind than any
other remedy known to medicine.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-17

Some spinsters do not believe in tax
ing bachelors; they believe in mailing
them.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-17
Family Secrets.

man with an uncanny mania for
Juggling with figures, producing pencil
and paper, commanded friend to
put down the number of your living
brothers. Multiply by two. Add three
Multiply the result by FIVE Add the
number of living sisters. Multiply the
result by ten Add the number Of dead
brothers and sisters. Substract 100
from the result.
1t was done.
!" Now he said, with cunning
smile, the right-hand figure will be
the number of deaths, the middle figure
the number of living sisters, and the
left-hand figure the number Of living
brothers,
And it was 50 says Tit Bits.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-17
STATE NEWS NOTES.

+. w Hunt of Danville, has been in
conference at Montpelier with State
Highway Commissioner s. B. Bates rel
ative to the completion Of the road on
the Steve SIDE of Smnggkers Notch
About $4,000 was expended last fall.
Ii viii take 4 like sum 10 complete the
work in the spring. 1t IS expected 10
have the road in shape early in the sum
mer for automobile traffic TO the top OF
the notch
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-17

In the stone age, butterfly collectors
went after butterfly with wagon
load Of powders drawn by dinosaur.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-17

Lots of voters would have to think
for themselves if it WASH for their
political bosses.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-17

The Filipinos are asking for informa-
ton about how to build American
barns.
Graham guardian., 1918-03-09

Do Your Bit for the Red Cross,
Graham guardian., 1918-03-09
THEY NEED COMFORT FROM HOME

According to Sir Walter Law
renee, an English veteran of
many hard campaigns, "The man
who gets a letter from home is a
so per cent better fighter that day
than the man who does not. The
great thing is to write-and write
cheerfully." Just as good as a
letter is the town paper. See
that it goes to the man in camp
or abroad just as long as he can
be reached. It's a sort of COM
munity message to him. Maybe
you remember that old song,
"Oh, it's great to see a man from
your old home town." How
much greater it is in a foreign
land to receive kindly word th,.t
the old home town is back of you
and is proud of you. So don't
forget to write the lads you ham.
mered on the back before they
marched away last fall to the
training camps.
Graham guardian., 1918-03-09
e>%>%>%%A>>~%%>%~
WAR NEWS DIGEST
Consumption of Sugar

The amount of sugar consumed
in 1917 in the United States was
about 1873 pounds per capita, ac-
cording to figures issued by the
Department of Agriculture. The
average annual consumption for
the fve-year period ending in
1916 was 84.7 pounds per capita.
There were about 1900, 600, 900
pounds of commercial stocks of
sugar on hand August 81, 1917,
compared to 1000. 600, 600 pounds
on the same date in 1916. New
York reported the largest stocks,
followed in order by California
and Louisiana.
Rifles and Ammunition
Rifle and cartridge production
in the United States has devel-
oped in volume and in quality on
a scale assuring the satisfactory
equipment of the Army, accord
ling to a statement authorized by
the Secretary of War.
To achieve the rifle and am
munition production program the
government has expended or
has obligated itself to expend,
during 10 months of war, $400,-
600, 900, and 200 officers, 80, 900
men and 10000 women have been
engaged exclusively in the manu-
facture of rifles and cartridges.
Two government plants and
three privately owned plants are
engaged in making rifles and one
government plant and nine pri-
vately owned plants are engaged
in cartridge manufacture. Ord
nance experts in this country
and in Europe are in agreement
that the United States Army is
being equipped with two of the
best three rifles in the world.
Shoes for Soldiers
General Pershing has request
ed shipment of 1880 pairs of
shoes for each 25, 600 men month
ly, which is approximately nine
pairs of shoes per man per year.
This quantity is in excess of ac-
tual consumption and is being
used to build up reserve for all
troops in France. When such a
supply is accumulated, the
quantities per man will be re-
duced.
The Quartermaster Generals
Department now has on hand
and due on outstanding contracts,
1854, 600 field shoes and7, ,87S, 900
marching shoes. 1t will be nee
essary to secure more than a
million additional shoes during
the year.
Graham guardian., 1918-03-09
SAVE WHAT YOU HAVE

AS a measure of national econ
omy, the Council of Defense
urges the repair and proper care
of all farm machinery. Now is
the very time when the farmer
should be ordering extra parts
for his mower or binder. 1t will
be hard to get machinery or parts
next summer. The dealers in all
Arizona towns can cooperate by
early orders on the manufac-
urers, for rail transportation will
not be speedy or dependable
again till the war is done. Saw
ing and repairing the machinery
you have not only will save you
dollars, but may save food stuffs
necessary to the men at the front.
Graham guardian., 1918-03-09

the men who minimize their tai
ents by trying to magnify MOLE
hills into mountains.
'And, furthermore, unlike the
Spanish-American war, in which
Mr.. Roosevelt was the king-pin:
I'VE have no army scandals.
We have no embalmed beef hor-
rors. We have no fat old gen.
erals going to war in carriages
and leading battle charges from
easy rocking chairs. We have
no unpleasant gossip about the
appointment of political generals
and society admirals. We have
no Round Robin Letters from
presumptuous officers demoral-
izing discipline and exalting
self
Graham guardian., 1918-03-09
A GOOD WAR RECORD

Martin H. Glynn says: I'VE
make no claim that the admins
tration has created sunbeams out
of cucumbers or performed feats
beyond the pale of human possi-
bility; but we do maintain that
its efforts have been amazing, its
accomplishments beyond COM
pare in the history of modern
warfare. We have not whipped
the kaiser yet; but we will whip
him if eliminating critics do
not dampen the fires of enthus-
iasm or grease the tracks where
on must ride our national chariots
of war. We have more men in
France today than Roosevelt
knows or Germany suspects; and
q million more are waiting for
the ships.
I'VE have an army so well
cared for that the death-rate in
our ranks for the four months
ending January 1, 1918, averaged
only rs per thousand-a death
rate for men of a like age in
peaceful avocations at home.
Compare this with the death
rate of 20. IA per cent per thou
sand under the good old republi.
can rule of the days Of the
Spanish American war. Com
pare these figures, and then ap.
plaud the Roosevelt charges, if
you can.
True, we have made some
mistakes, but in the magnitude
of our undertaking, some mis-
takes were inevitable, unavoid-
able. In balance though with
the wondrous achievements, these
mistakes have been trivial and
not worthy Of the attention Of
Graham guardian., 1918-03-09
SECRETARY WILSON WAKING UP

According TO the news from
Washington,a vigorous policy for
the suppression of anarchists and
all who advocate sabotage and
other forms of lawlessness, has
been announced by Secretary of
Labor Wilson.
We also learn that Secretary
Wilson has announced that men,
bership in the !. W. W. organi-
cation is not in itself cause for
arrest or deportation, but that
alien |. w. WIS, who preach
overthrow of the government by
force, assassination, or who are
in any other manner subject to
deportation under the immigra-
ton laws. should be taken into
custody at once.
What we don't understand is
where Secretary Wilson gets his
dope that only alien members OF
the /. w. w. organization are to
blame for sabotage and for
preaching the overthrow OF the
government, and why 1t is that
he does not know that the l. w.
w. organization, the American
branch of the Russian Bolsheviki,
is not now and never has been q
labor organization. but instead
has been organized to create
trouble and discomfort among
the workers in the mines, the
factories, the logging camps, the
ship yards, the harvest fields,
and, in fact, in every field of
labor which our country is de-
pendent upon at this time for
help in winning the war for lib
erty.
If Secretary Wilson does not
know the real aims Of the !. W.
w.. we would suggest that he
get busy and have the Secret
Service furnish him the informa-
tion that he needs in this matter,
and we would also advise him
that his theory that only alien
members of the l. w. w. are to
blame for the discomfort in the
different fields of labor in Ari-
zona, in the Western and the
Northwestern states, is not borne
out by the facts which have been
made known to the people of
Arizona, and other Western
States, that it is the American
born members of the l. w. w.
who are the worst enemies of
our country in her hour of need.
Graham guardian., 1918-03-09
ACTIVITIES OF RED CROSS

| Describing the American Red
Cross as a body authorized to dc
everything possible for the COM
fort and welfare of the soldiers,
and tomake use of such agencies
as are authorized and are in a
position to contribute to that end
in addition to the provisions made
by the government, a general
statement by the War Depart
ment outlines certain approved
activities:
To distribute sweaters. muf-
flers, helmets, socks, comfort
kits, etc.
To render emergency relief of
every kind upon request of an
officer in charge.
To relieve anxiety and sustain
the morale of soldiers who are
worried about their families at
home, and to promote the COM
fort and well being of these
families.
To conduct canteen service sta
tions for furnishing refreshments
to soldiers when travelling thru
the country; to furnish emer-
gency relief TO the sick and
wounded when en- route and to
see that they are conveyed to a
hospital when necessary and re-
ouested by the commanding Of
ficer.
A representative of the Red
Cross may be attached to each
base hospital to furnish emer-
gency supplies when called upon,
to communicate with families of
patients, to render home service
to patients and such other as.
sistance as pertains to Red Cross
work
Graham guardian., 1918-03-09
1T Sure Does the Work"

Changeable weather and wet feet
make March a dangerous month for
coughs, cold, Group and whooping cough.
BE prepared to get prompt relief.
Don't let cold run into serious sick
ness. Mrs. W. H. Thornton, 1928 W.
10th St, Little Rock, Ark, writes:
MY little boy had a severe attack of
Group and honestly believe he would
have died if it had not been for Foley's
Honey and Tar. Two doses relieved
him. lwould not be without it at any
price. ' Stafford Drug Co. adv-3-5t