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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-11
HOUR Is GRAVE, SAYS KAISER
Emperor Whimpers to Industrial AS
sociations for Unity.

AMSTERDAM, Oct. 11.-Emperor
William in thanking the German indus
trial association for its vow of con-
fidenee is quoted by the Cologne Ga
zette as saying:
1.-The hour is grave! We are fight
ing for the future of the fatherland
and for the protection of the soil of
the homeland To that end we need
the united action of the intellectual
moral, and economic powers of Ger,
many. On the cooperation of those
powers our invincibility rests.
1.-The via for defence must bind all
separate views and separate wishes in,
to one great unity of conception. Goo
grant US something of the spirit OF
the war of liberation .
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-11
TELEPHONE COMPANY
ASSISTING FARMERS
Brattleboro Among Towns Where Oper-
ator Has Been Appointed to De-
termine Need for Labor.

Farmers in New England are to re-
ceive the assistance of the New England
Telephone and Telegraph company in
procuring farm labor through the United
States employment service, request for
this service having been received by the
telephone company from the secretary of
the department of labor at Washington.
The general manager of the telephone
company has given assurances that ar
Irangements will be made to carry out the
purpose of the employment service.
Bulletins have been issued by the de
partment of labor on the subject of Sc
curing farm help, and organizations to
direct the work of fulfilling the needs of
the farmers have been started in Yer
mont, in charge of r. w. Simonds, State
House, Montpelier, and other represent
atives at Barre, Bellows Falls, Burling-
ton and Rutland.
An operator has been appointed in
places where farm labor probably is
needed, including Brattleboro, TO deter
mine and continue to secure at intervals
from farmers their need for farm help
1t is expected, however, that inquiries
and work connected Herewith will be
secondary to telephone service. aud that
such work will not be followed if it in
terferes with regular duties. The opera
tor here is giving notice. as rapidly as
her time permits. to farmers connected
with the telephone exchange that such
service has been inaugurated.
The operator, in making inquiries il
help is required, will state that the tele.
phone company is cooperating with the
United States employment service
Upon receiving a request for farm labor
an employment form. furnished by the
government. viii be filled out and for
warded to the proper official.
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-11
WRITE TO THE SOLDIERS.

The writing of more home letters
to the boys overseas is urged strong
~ by the captains of the companies,
who say they always can tell by a
soldiers expression when he has had
news from home. The letters cheer
and strengthen and help materially
in keeping up the morale of the army
and the boys feel that the people
at home are taking an interest in
them and backing them up in the
fighting they are called upon to do in
the battlefelds far from home, and
these thoughts give them new courage.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-11
-s4sB guy LIBERTY BOMBS as-
New Sandwich Definition.

A Santa Cruz, Cal, reader sends in the
following as, a verbatim copy of a notice
posted in restaurants by the California
Food Administration; ut is particular
~ important to revisesthe public's def
milton of a sandwich. ttfhAtead of consist
ing of meaSor cheese between two slices
of bread, it may quite as appropriately
consist of two mullins with meat or
cheese on a plate beside them" It APP
parently follows, then, that pie, instead
of consisting of two conventional disc
sections with filling between, may as APP
propriately l'consist of two doughnuts
with prunes on the side. There is no tell
ing to whatsthis war viii lead.-Christian
Science Monitor.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-11
DAYLIGHT BILL APPROVED.
Senate Passes Measure in Interest of
Fuel Economy.

WASHINGTON, OcU u.-fThe day
light saving law would 'remain in effect
until rescinded by. eopetess Ander "a bin
passed yesterday by tReS Sthate
The measure, which Was indorsed by
Chairman Barueh of the MAR industries
board in the interest of fuel economy.
now goes to the house. Under The pres
ent law the clocks would be turned
back an hour on. Oct 81.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-11
WEST BRATTLEBORO

Miss Susie Miner is in quarantine with
influenza.
Miss Eta Sanderson, bookkeeper in J.
l.. Stockwelis store, is i'll.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1918-08-31
St. Mary Garage s. Machine Shop,
LOCAL AGENTS
PHONE 2. FRANKLIN, LA
NOTICE.

Judge A. G. Allen who has been
euffering with an affection Of his
eyes, has recovered his eyesight
and has resumed the practice Of
law. He notifies his friends that
any business entrusted to him
will be promptly and faithfully
attended to.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1918-08-31
Now We c
19 New Styles i'm Mitchells
The Car We Chose, After Months of Comparisons a
Today's Greatest Car in it's Glass

We have chosen the Mitchell, among all
EN- IN its class, as the car that we wish to
seA We have the Mitchell leadership.
We offer two sizes, at two basic prices, in
10 new-style bodies. The largest line, the
most attractive line ever seen in this class
ear. Every man who knows these cars will
asree In our choice, we think.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1918-08-31
Where They Excel

Mitchells are built to rigid standard Of
over-strength in all important parts. That af-
tosds more than the usual margin of safety.
That means lifetime car. It has proved
h ability to run 100000 miles.
It means low cost Of upkeep. This new
standard has greatly reduced repair cost.
It means oversize parts. It means extra
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1918-08-31

Phone 1913 for Automobile
Truck Hauling. Terms rea.
eo1ahla
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1918-08-31

extra finish. into high-grade leathes, into
many added touches.
Famous body designers give their whole
time to the Mitchell. They have created l9
exclusive styles. They have combined in
these designs all the attractions found in cver
200 late models.
There are open cars and sport cars There
are new convertible models = Sedans and
Coupes- built for year-'round service There
are exquisite closed cars, and there are de.
mountable tops.
So any type Of car you want can be found
IN the Mitchells, in most up-to-date design.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-11-16
DRAFT REFLECTIONS
SHOW NEED OF STATE HEALTH
INSURANCE LAWS.
Arkansas State Federation of Labor
panies and Better Management
Especial correspondence.)

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark, Nov. TO-
"Just and scientific health insurance
Legislation, to furnish needed medical
and financial relief to sick wage-earn-
ers during incapacity, foster preven-
tion of illness, and to be democratical-
ly managed without participation by
private insurance companies" is urged
in resolution adopted unanimously at
the recent convention of the Arkansas
Federation of Labor.
Experience in raising our national
army has revealed an alarming amount
of physical unfitness among our youth,
reaching in some states as high as 40
per cent of those examined" the reso-
luton states. "Official state commits
sions in California, Massachusetts, and
New Jersey have submitted reports
strongly favoring comprehensive sys-
TENS of workmen's health insurance as
means of conserving the health and
physique of our people, and several
additional states have created commits
sions to investigate this important
question. European countries which
have for years enjoyed comprehensive
systems of health insurance have ex-
tended and liberalized them even dur
ing the war, thus conclusively show
ing their extreme social value"
The Arkansas Federation also
adopted a resolution. declaring that
workmen's compensation should be
based on two-thirds of wages, with
adequate medical care, and that the
benefits should be provided thru an
exclusive state fund, with commercial
companies eliminated. "The principle
of private profit in workmen's COM
pensation Insurance." the Federation
says, sis recognized to be fundamen-
| tally wrong"
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-11-16
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Denver labor bulletin., 1918-11-16
DANIEL DEFOE OF "ROBINSON
CRUSOE' FAME, WAS A GOOD NEWS
PAPER CIRCULATION MANAGER

| by the product of his pen, and from
a moral, rather than from a legal OBJ
legation. .
| Robinson Crusoe was written when
DeFoe was a years old. Its success
was immediate. He soon made for
tune from it. Before his death, it
was translated into fourteen modern
languages and dialects.
Some of DeFoe's political enemies
accused him of plagiarizing the jour
nal of Alexander Selkirk, a German
castaway sailor on the Island Of Juan
Fernandez, off the northwest coast Of
South America, and which had been
printed a few years before in a Lon
don newspaper.
But Selkirk was no more RESPONSE
BILE for Robinson Crusoe than the man
who mixed the ink for the first edition.
DeFoe wrote many other novels,
after the writing of Robinson Crusoe,
all attaining wide sale, largely as a
out of the generation in which it was
written.
Popular demand forced him some
years later to write the Further Ad-
ventures of Robinson Crusoe." While
this book indicates much reading Of
books of travel and a study of phil
osophy, and is a work of much in
terest, yet it has not the literary value
or dramatic appeal Of the original.
1t is now embodied as an appen-
dix to the standard editions of Rob-
inson Crusoe.
In 1713 DeFoe founded the London
Review, and as a commercialist, as a
circulation builder, he indicated much
of the second hand clothing business
acumen of our very modern school of
journalists, for shortly after the
founding of the paper he interviewed
one Jack Sheppard, notorious high
wayman of that time and who had
been condemned to be hanged. He
wrote and published an account of
Sheppard's life in the Review, and
when the highwayman was on the
scaffold and was asked by his hang
man if he had anything to say, by
prearrangement with DeFoe, he Ddra-
matically brought forth copy Of the
paper, held it up to the view of the
great throng that had assembled to
witness the execution and said, "Here
is what l have to say"
DeFoe died in 1871 broken in spirit
and much reduced in fortune by rea-
son of the misdoing Of son.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-11-16
POSTAL CLERKS OBJECT TO UNIFORMS
OF DESIGN DIRECTED BY POSTMASTER
File Protest With Postmaster General
for Extravagant Use of Material and Expense Caused
Clerks in the st. Louis Postofhce
Department.

of the uniform order, which is No.
1861, dated August Is, 1918, and is
headed "In re adoption Of uniform for
female Clerks" and reads as follows:
"Owing to conditions on the main
work room floor it has been deemed
best to advise all concerned that q
uniform has been adopted for the use
of the female employees engaged in
service on the work room floor. This
apron can be seen at Martin Martin,
1920 Market street, st. Louis, Mo-,
where all female employees will call
and be measured for same.
at is desired, after the new uni
forms are obtained, that the black
apron heretofore worn be discarded
and that the new uniform apron, low
heeled shoes and white cap, sample of
which was submitted you, be procured
and worn at once"
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-11-16

Daniel Defoe, aside from being the
author of Robinson Crusoe, on which
his world fame rests, was one of the
great political reform writer's of his
time.
He was born in 1861, the son of a
prosperous London butcher, who gave
him university education. His real
name was Daniel Foe.
His early activity was that of a
business man, wool broker in the
beginning, and later he became the
first manufacturer of roofing tile in
England-all roofing tile previous to
his time coming from Holland.
1t seems that he first pursued writ
ing as sort of gentlemanly accom-
plishment; this being in the days Of
the pamphleteer when gentlemen did
not need publishers. Those who could
read were few and the distribution
among the literate was not so COM
plex a proposition as it is today
every printer was a publisher to any
gentleman who had views and could
express them, and who had the money
for putting them into type and having
impressions made.
DeFoe's pamphlets sold widely on
| the streets of London and he became
one of a group who created public
| opinion for the higher political power
of parliament and away from the
| king, and which was the larger be-
ginning of the very liberal monarchy
of England today.
The intellectuals of his time held
DeFoe in great contempt, very large
ly by reason of his democratic views
and the popularity of his writings.
An Oxford professor once referred
to him as "that person whose name /
| do not recall"
Thru this and other sighting refer
ences, DeFoe, in order to prove his
scholarship, offered to wager f20
note that he could translate any of the
Greek or Latin standard works in less
time than any of them.
| DeFoe was a successful business
man up to the point of his becoming
conspicuous success as writer.
He was arrested numberless times
for alleged libelous statements made
against the mobiles of his times and
even treason against the king.
| The prison enforced neglect caused
the failure of his roofing tile busi-
ness. The obligations incurred by rea-
son of the failure, he afterwards paid
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-11-16
The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co.
POOR LO" HAS MONEY IN BANK
AND COMPLETES WITH WHITE MEN

vestment. For example, the tribal
herd placed on the Crow Indian reser-
walton in Montana in the spring of
1914 at cost of $405, ,108 showed net
profit on December 81, 1915, of $297,-
sol. The tribal herd Of sheep on the
Picarilla reservation showed gross re-
turns in the first year Of $17,25O on
an investment Of $23,477.
Live Stock Worth $28,000, 900.
The live stock on the various Indian
reservations is worth more than $685.
900 900, as compared with $22,777 ,075
in 1913. In addition to this increase
of more than $5,000,000 in value the
Indians have sold $5,498 ,266 worth of
stock and slaughtered s2,307 ,431 worth
for their own needs.
AS a herdsman the Indian has been
particularly successful. The highest
price paid on the Chicago market for
grass-fed steer was recently re-
ceived by an Indian of the Crow tribe
on day when the general market
value of the cattle was lower than on
other days of the season.
Gradually the original unhyphenated
American is taking possession Of his
I own again. He is managing his own
farm and reaping his own harvests.
Leases Of allotted land decreased in
number from 28,847 in 1918 to 1O,426
in 1915, change in acreage of from
3,109, ,209 to 1,868,779. In 1915 the
area of tribal lands leased was g.
221,918 acres whereas in 1913 it was
1O,56S,948
Completes in Agriculture.
The Indian is becoming the competi-
tor of the white man at the agricul-
tural fair. He is raising his own sup
plies, relieving the government to a
considerable extent of the necessity
of making gratuitous issues of food
under treaties to induce him to remain
where he is on the reservation instead
of reverting to the nomadic habits of
his forefathers.
Nor is he any longer vanishing
race. The number of Indians increased
from 300,930 in 1913 to 3O9,911 in
1915. Gradually the tendency toward
tuberculosis. trachoma and kindred
diseases, which prevailed among them
to an alarming extent, is being
checked. This is due to medical
campaign and the improvement of
housing conditions. 1t appears, there
fore, that the turning point in the his
tory of the Indian has been reached
His numbers are increasing, his wealth
is growing, and he has taken place
among the white men as the producer
of wealth in system of civilization
with which his own manner of living
was in direct conflict.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-11-16
Especial Correspondence.)

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.-The re-
cent order of Postmaster Colin Selph,
requiring the clerical force of the St.
Louis city postoffice to purchase uni
forms of his design, at stores desig-
mated by him, has precipitated fight
which will result in a request to
President Wilson for the postmaster's
official scalp, according to Miss Nellie
Quick of st. Louis, executive board
member of the National Women's
Trade Union League. A resolution to
this effect will be introduced at the
next meeting of the st. Louis Trades
and Labor Union, says Miss Quick, by
delegates from the st. Louis Women's
Trade Union League, which has been
cooperating with the Washington Of
flee of the National Federation of Pos
tai Employees to secure the abrogation
of Mr.. Selph's Objectionable order.
Protest to Burleson.
In Washington Secretary Frank
Morrison of the American Federation
of Labor and Secretary Thomas F.
Flaherty of the National Federation of
Postal Employees have filed protest
with the postmaster general, and also
with the war industries board. The
protest is based upon what is con-
sidered the unwarranted expense to
the clerks and the extravagant use
of material, in view of the clothes
conservation campaign. But still
more serious aspect of the matter, Mr..
Flaherty points out, is the civilians
inherent protest against uniform be-
cause of its psychological effect in
tending to deprive him of individual
ity and subjecting him to autocratic
domination. "And this" he declares,
sis just what men like Selph want to
do to their subordinates. 1t helps to
suppress democracy"
When Mr.. Selph conceived the idea
of uniforming his clerks, according to
Mr.. Flaherty, 'he ordered a hand
picked committee of clerks to approve
it and then he submitted it to the en-
tire body of clerks for their approval
The clerks voted it down almost unan-
imously. Thereupon Mr.. Selph called
and insulted them, told them they
didn't have enough intelligence to
know what kind of clothes to wear
And then he said they would have to
buy uniforms anyway, regardless of
the result of the vote"
Must Buy of Certain Firms.
The women's uniform, consisting of
bungalow aprons and caps of a speci-
fed type, which the women were not
allowed to make for themselves, but
must buy at designated store, were
objected to because of the price as well
as because of the feeling against the
uniform idea itself. In the women's
| behalf, therefore, the st. Louis Wom-
ems Trade Union League, upon re-
quest from the national headquarters
of the postal employees organization,
appointed committee to take the
matter up.
The postmaster refused to meet the
committee, however, and to Mrs. Sarah
! Spraggon, the league president, he de-
MED that he had ever tried to put his
clerks in uniform. Mrs. Spraggon,
however, had in her possession a copy
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-11-16

Poor Lo is no longer poor. He is a
landholder, and stock raiser. He has
money in the bank, millions Of it, since
the government recently completed the
distribution of payments authorized by
Congress at the last session. For his
farm products he is receiving war
prosperity prices. From his oil lands
royalties are flowing in with an
abundance that would make paleface
dizzy, Robert II. Moulton writes in
the Christian Endeavor World.
Payments out of tribal funds author
lied by Congress last year, including
an earlier distribution, made the In
dians richer by $10,585, ,688. In addi-
tion during the last three years about
s4,000,000 has been advanced to stock
Los ranges on various reservations
and to purchase farm equipment.
From this capital investment he is
now receiving returns in some in
stances amounting to more than so
per cent.
Chickasaw Nation Gets $633,300.
The Indian office recently completed
the payment of $633 300 to members
of the Chickasaw. nation, the. distribu-
tion of which was authorized in 1914.
Further payments authorized last year
DeRau Oh August 10. Aueoe dHOuuLSu
to $6,239, 700 to the Choctaws, $938, LOO
to the Seminoles, s1,260, 800 more to
the Chickasaws, making in all, in
cluding earlier distributions, $9,071,-
900 which these Indians have received
in cash.
To the Chippewa Indians in Mime
sofa payments were made under the
act of last year amounting to 81 BIB,
1888. The adults competent to take
care of their interests received their
share of the money. In the case OF
minors and others the money was de-
posted in banks to be used for their
benefit under the supervision of Off
GERS Of the Indian service.
Indian Producer of Wealth.
OF greater interest, however, is the
fact that the American Indian is not
only the holder but the producer Of
wealth. He is beginning to put money
into the bank himself as well as hav-
ing the government put it in for him
This is largely the result Of a plan
to enable him to make use Of the nat
ural resources available on the various
Indian reservations, heretofore util-
lied to great extent by white men fo1
their own benefit under the leasing
system. Only few months ago there
were put on sale at the Chicago mar
ket fifty carloads of cattle from Indian
herds. In many places the Indian
has shown that he cannot only raise
cattle, but also obtain the top market
price.
During the last three years about
81 4,0o0, 900 has been expended in the
purchase of cattle, sheep and horses
to stock the Indian ranges. The
handling of these herds by the In.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-11-16
REPLACE PENSIONS
BY COMPENSATION
GOVERNMENT SHOWS WAY
FOR INDUSTRIES.
Provides for Injured Soldiers and for
Dependents Of Those Killed In Line
Of Duty; No Red Tape, No Le-
gal Service Required.

Modern substitutes for pensions
have been provided by the govern
ment for injured soldiers or for the
dependents Of soldiers killed in the
service. The injury division Of the
information and education service, de-
partment Of labor, is collecting infor-
nation for soldiers and their relatives
in regard to the provision that will be
made for them.
The United States provides com
pensation to injured soldiers or to the
dependents Of soldiers who are killed,
in addition to all allotments. family
allowances and war-risk insurance.
This compensation is entirely distinct
from government insurance protee-
tion, and applies to officers and men
alike, without regard TO rank or pay.
1t applies to total or partial disability
and to death incurred in the line OF
duty.
In case Of death the soldiers widow,
children or dependent parents are en-
titled to compensation. II the dis
ability is partial the sum paid is based
upon the percentage due for total dis
ability and upon the reduction in earn
ing power. II total the amount Of
compensation varies from $40 to sos
month, depending on the size OF the
disabled mans family.
In certain specific. cases, such as
the loss Of both hands or both feet, or
blindness in both eyes, or in the case
OF becoming permanently bedridden
from causes occurring in the line of
duty, compensation is payable at the
rate Of 800 n month.
In the. event of death compensation
ranges from $50 to $75 a month, ac-
cording to the number and relation of
the soldiers dependents. The widow,
children and dependent parents Of men
IN the service are the only ones en-
titled to compensation. The widow
Shall receive compensation until her
remarriage, and children to the age Of
18 years.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-11-16
MAJOR TACTICS.

Crown Prince-"Have you caused
my proclamation announcing that this
offensive will bring our victorious
arms to Paris and the channel ports
to be read to all regiments p
Aid-"Yes, excellenz."
to our new SSs ear thirty hiIo
meters to the rcar."-Life.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-11-16
JUST ASKING

II love the ground you walk on. y
he said.
And little later inquired: "Does
your father own this property ~
Louisville Courier-Journal.