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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05
WEDNESDAY,, JUNE 5, 1918.
STAMPING OUT sEDITIoN.

The new sedition amendment to tho
espionage bill, which Attorney General
Gregory is sending to all the district
attorneys with orders to enforce it. is
an eye-opener.
The law provides q maximum penal
ty of 20 years Imprisonment and 80
600 fine for any of the following Of
lenses:
Conveying false reports and state
ments with intent to interfere with
the military operations of the govern
ment
Talking against Liberty bonds, thrift
stamps and other government securities.
Attempting to cause mutiny or dis
loyalty in the nation s armed forces.
Uttering, publishing or writing dis.
loyal, profane, contemptuous or seurril-
Gus language about the form of govern
ment of the United States, the constitu
ton, the flag, the armed forces, the
army and navy uniforms.
Making statements intended to pro-
mote resistance to the United States or
to promote the cause of its enemies.
Displaying the flag of any enemy ma
tion.
Urging curtailment of production of
food, munitions and other essentials in
the prosecution of the war.
This is surely comprehensive enough.
There are thousands of people in the
country who in the past have been do
ing these things with impunity. Some
of them have been pro- Germans. Others
have been simply fool pacifsts. Both
classes have done harm, and both have
grievously offended loyal citizens by
their insolence. Hereafter it will be
possible to put them where they belong
But it won't be necessary 20 round
up many of them, if the law is applied
promptly and sternly A few eonvic.
tions will silence the whole bunch.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05
CONTEST OF THE. sUPERMEN
warfare Of Remote Future Predicted
to Depend on Battles Conducted
by Picked Combatants.

A Gay, now far removed, may come
when the embattled hosts of rival ma
Itions will give place to a wager Of bat
tie to decide the conflict. The battle
Will then be confined to the combat
ants alone without violent interfer-
ence with the peaceful pursuits of non
combatants or destruction Of their
property.
First. however, we must evolve
great engines Of destruction, so perfect
that few skilled heroes will direct
each one Of them, Ellery c. Stowell
writes in the Century. These war ma
chimes will be SO costly that only q few
great powers will have the resources
to construct and maintain them. Wise
legislation and skillful systems of tax
alton will be necessary to, organize the
whole people for their support. A
chosen few, picked from the whole ma.
ton. will man them, men In the full
vigor of their strength. physically per-
feet to endure the terrible strain and
powerful of brain to meet and sur
mount every intricacy of mechanics
and every difficulty of strategy.
Above all. these hero supermen mus
be of such answering character tina
they will, day In and day out. with
out surcease, devote their unfiaggint
zeal to the great task Of defending thu
civilization for which they contend
This evolution and the increasing eco
nOmic burden of maintenance nf thi,
machinery will make war the luxury O
the most powerful states and will
cause the area of war constantly to re
cede. Small nations will no longer b,
able to maintain military establish
ments and eventually the millions o
men now battling upon the field O
honor will have been replaced by ,
| contest among a few men in control O
stupendous machinery.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05
Coarse
Grain
Products

We are prepared to supply the New
England consumer in any quantity,
through their regular provision houses,
substitutes Of unequaled quality, in
Guiding Barber Milling Company's Rye
Flour; Quaker City Flour Mills Pure
Rye Flour; Washburn- Crosby Com
pany's Pure Barley Flour; Pillsbury's
Pure Barley Flour; National Oats Com
pany's Pure White Table Meal Ma
tional Oats Company's Rolled Oats in
00-lb. sacks; Quaker Oats Company S
Rolled Oats in packages, all sizes:
American Hominy Company's Cream of
Maize, which has recently been made
a substitute; Topeka Flour Mills Com
pany's Fancy Corn Flour. Also our full
line of goods manufactured at our Brat
tleboro plant, including Rye Meal,
White Bolted Corn Meal; Yellow Bolted
Corn Meal. We arc installing machinery
20 manufacture White Corn Flour. We
place guarantee back Of our goods
and solicit your valued business.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05
Big Moon.


different. Beatrice would not have
hked cold climate, but for visit 1t
was entirely different And that was
the way each one felt about the part
of the land where the other lived.
"one morning Beatrice said to It'd
dy:
Let's cut some roses There were
so many roses and flowers that Tiddy
didn't know what to make of such
quantities of them.
How will we ever find enough
vases TO put them in?' she asked.
Oh said Beatrice, wen only take
the ones with the great long stems for
the vases and leave the others on the
ground
Are you jokingY asked Tiddy.
No. certainly not said Beatrice.
You mean you're going to leave
roses on the ground Can't we give
them TO some one?'
Every one around here has all the
roses imaginable. 1t may seem strange
to have all the roses one can use and
give away and enjoy. but that's the
truth. And we really cut them off
and let them drop on the ground, be-.
cause we try to make them grow with
longer stems next time
Tiddy was never so surprised in
her lie. 1t was like living in a land
of roses. She had never visited Bea-
trlce before in the rose season. How
wonderful it all was-roses and sun
shine and warmth and beautiful coun-
try.
And, too, when she had visited Bea-
| trlce before she was so very young she
hadn't noticed such things. She had
! been only very wee child and had
Thought OF nothing but nice warm bot
| Ties OF milk and rattles!
when night came and she had be-
come used to seeing roses, roses every
| Where-on the ground, In vases. on
the busRes-she saw an enormous
moon come up from behind hill.
| DID you ever, in your life, see
such big, such a ridiculously big
moon? she asked Beatrice.
Beatrice laughed We'll, / suppose
am so used to seeing such big
moon that it doesn't surprise me-
"Tiddy couldn't think of anything
else after she had gone to bed but the
many, many roses and the great big
. moon.
I'm little while she saw something
round and yellow at the end of her
bed. And it began to grow bigger and
digger until it covered up all the iron
rods at the foot.
Well, Miss Tidy said the Moon
In low and solemn voice, how dc
you like this part of the worldy
u like it. she said; in fact. love
II, but 1t doesn't seem real
, Now said the Moon, that is what
J don't understand. When things are
beautiful and wonderful and everyone
IS happy folks will say, 1T doesnf
seem real And If things are going
wrong they think they are very real
Lovely things and happy things ar,
just as real as the other kind-just al
real Miss Tidy
INV ara Won an hi0 fhans Yni
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05
Little Benny'sl
Note Book
By LEE PAPE

Pop was smoaking and thinking in tie
setting room after snppir and ma came in
with shoe box, witch she took ladys
shoes out of it and showed them to pop,
saying, Wat do you think of my new shoes,
Willyum?
Fine, now that's wat call nobby look
ing pare of shoes, sed pop. p
I'm SO glad you like them, sed ma.
I'm crazy about them, they're meet with
out being gawdy, and sensible looking
without being clumsy, sed pop
., Willyum, you've got such good taist,
sed ma
So I'm told, sed pop, enyway, hartily
approve OF your new shoes, if / was a shoe
maker, that's the kind Id make, and /
know OF no higher compliment.
Wen, I'm serteny glad you ike them.
they cost sl4, sed ma.
wat, how mulch, / Suppose YOU meen
that was the original price before thew
were reduced, sed pop.
NO, meen that's wat / gave for them.
l meen that's wat III half to. give for them
wen get the BILL sed ma
You meen that's wat Ill haff N o;,. sor
them, sed pop, my deer, as one man 70
another | advice you to retern thoSo shoas
and get another pare for about half the
money. In the ferst place, those shoes
are all ont OF proportion, they don't seem
to be mates
i How reedickliss, wy you Jest finished
telling me how nice they We're, sed ma
Evidently You don't know irony wen
you heer it, wy, if enybody asked me. to
pay sl4 for those shoes Id laff in their face
and then kick them behind the back, sed
pop.
But Willyum, dident you jest say they
were meet without being gawdy, and every
thing? sed ma
1t | did IT was pure sourcasm, wen d.
yon intend to take them back? sed pop
Never, sed ma
WITCH she proberly wont.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05
When Horses Get "Pipped."

When an army horse is wounded
about the face or jaw 1t is not sent
down to the veterinary lines. but Is
kept to be tended by its driver.
Then it is that a good drivers care
comes in. for the men tend them most
carefully, feeding them by hand, boil
ing their oats. making them mashes.
and spending most of the day with
their charges until they can feed in
comfort again. 1t Is this personal
care of the man for his horse that has
been the cause of the new order that
all horses have to be returned from
hospital to their own units again for q
mans care is by no means transferred
to the same extent to new team of
horses.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05

The Reformer IL on sale every evening
by the following news dealers:
Srattieboro, Brattleboro News Co. C.
WI WI, Cleaveland. 8. L. Purinton (Estey-
yllle), Brooks House Pharmacy. Aliens
Depot Newsstand, Mrs d. f. DOYLE.
South Main Street.
West 6rattIeboro, ]. L. Stockwel.
East Oummerston, M. e. Brown.
Putney. NJ. G. Williams
Newane, N. NJ Batchelder
IoWnshend, c. W. Cutler
West Townshend. C. H Grout
Jamaica, r. J. Daggett
south Londonderry, f. Fl. Tyler.
South Vernon, E. b. Burum.
NorthneId, Mass, Thompson Bros
Streeter. W.
hInsdaIe, ~: H., w. H. Lyman.
Senows Falls, Depot Restaurant
windsor. W., Windsor Restaurant
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05

Medals are due the 80 young men
from the American forces in France
who volunteered for incubation in or
der that the medical men might find out
the cause of trench fever. Among those
mentioned in the dispatches as recov-
ering from the effects of incubation is
\. Joseph DAILY of Pittsford, VT.
Through the experimentation it was dis
covered that the "eooties '-heas,- in
all probability carry the germs of the
disease. 1t is expected that medical
science will be able to find serum
which will make the germs of the dis
ease innocuous. Thus will he hero
ism of the young volunteers be tbs
means of saving thousands of lives.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05
FOR WOMEN WHO WORRY

Worry and .'the blues are usually
linked together and in many cases are
due TO some functional arrangement
which if not corrected may lead to
more serious ailments. More. out door
life, sleep, water drinking and a few
weeks treatment with that good old
fashioned root and herb remedy, Lydia
=. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
will revitalize and strengthen the sys-
tenn and work wonders for any woman.
II you are prone to worry and 1.-THE
blues try it.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05

Funds for the Red Cross continue to
pour in, and it is now estimated that
when the final footings for the drive
are made the total will be approximate
ly $l7O,000,000 Americans are begin
ming to grasp the terrible significance
of the war. The appearance of the Hun
in U-boats almost at the gates of the
largest city of our country will mean
boom in voluntary enlistments for
both army and navy.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05

things are big
and beautiful and
so / try to look
the same way.
I'm not really at
the foot of your
bed, but l am
r e a ii y in your
dream.
" And what l
want to say above
everything else is
that there are all
sorts of real and
wonderful things
In the world that
people don't half
a ppre CT a tie be-
cause they have
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05

The young men of 81 have the duties
of citizenship brought home to them in
striking way today, when from all
over the country they will register in
the expectation that they will be called
into the war service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05
TO THE suescaIaEps

II is the aim CT the management to
secure efficient service In the delivery Of
cooperation OF subscribers to that end
Prompt reports should be given of each
failure to receive the paper on the morn
ing following the omission, i'm person.
by telephone or postal card. thus enabling
the cause of the error to be promptly
and accurately discovered and the proper
remedy Immediately applied 1t is only
oy inns method that the publisher can
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05
TO ADVERTISERS.

Transient advertising-Run of paper,
so cents an inch for first insertion, 25
cents an inch for each subsequent inser-
ton. Limited space on first page at
double rates.
Space rates on application.
Classified advertisements-Ffve cents a
line first insertion with so per cent dis
count for each subsequent insertion
without change Of copy.
Reading Notices-Ten cents per line,
first insertion with so per cent discount
for each subsequent insertion without
change of copy.
Position 10 per cent extra
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05

The appearance of German U-boats
along the Atlantic coast will be likely
to carry a knockout blow to summer re-
sorts on islands out at sea, like Nan
tucket and Block Island, to which MANY
Brattleboro people have gone for their
vacations in years past.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05

beatrice.
Now Beatrice
lived where It
was very warm.
The roses bios
somed almost all
through the WIN
ter and there was
no such thing as
snow and ice and
billiards..
+" T | d dy W a s
glad she didn't
live in that coun-
try all the time,
for she loved to
coast and skate.
OF course for
peptpfon e =,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05

on wood land, particularly on growing
wood. The present method has been
the means of forcing upon the market
many acres of immature timber, espe-
cially throughout the pine growing sec
ton of the state
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05

Costa Rica is nation No. 81 to declare
war on Germany. The present govern
ment of Costa Rica has never been rec
ognized by the United States, but that
will not prevent friendly cooperation
in the present crisis.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05
"Bike" Revived Aoain.

Folk who commenced to think that
the bicycle was passing along the way
that the horse has given up to the au-
tomobile as pleasure vehicle have an
other guess. The war has given added
impulse to wheel manufacture. accord
ing 10 Il wheel salesman quoted in the
Boston Post, and outside of the thou
sands being made fc- our troops across
the water many mo wheels are being
made for the Anerisa in public. larger
number than In former ye:rs-
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05

The New York World has a right to
put another chip on its shoulder. Mayor
Hylan, pleading pressure of public du-
ties, has withdrawn his two libel suits
against that paper, in which he asked
damages to the amount of $4,000.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05
Good to Remember.

1t Is well to have visions of q better
life than that Of every day, but it is
the life Of every day from which ele-
ments of better life must come
Maeterlinck.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05
Uncle Eben.

Il can't help takin' notice." said I'm.
Gle Eben. dat dis daylight savin' aim
preventin' Il lot o. people FUN squap-
derin' time jes' de same as dey used
to-"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05

been thinking in such twisted way
Tor so long time. They have grown
to think real things were the horrid
things and the nice things were all
make-believe. But don't you believe
it. little Tiddy. The most real things
in the world are the beautiful, happy
things
I'm sorry'I called you ridiculous
said Tiddy, for you're really an aw-
fully nice moon
Thanks said the Moon. I knew
1t was only joke because you couldn't
get used TO my size right away But
please get used to believing that nice
things are real" And SO. many times
after that Tiddy knew that what the
Moon had said was right
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05
The Fools Prayer.

The royal feast was done; the King.
Sought some new sport to Danish care.
And to his jester cried: Sir Fool.
kneel now, and make for us a prayer,"
The jester dotted his cap and bells
And stood the knocking court before:
They could not see the bitter smile -
Behind the painted grin he wore.
He bowed his head, and bent his knee
Upon the monarch's silken stool: ).
His pleading voice arose: 90 Lord,
Be merciful to me, fool! Is
NO pity, Lord. could change the heart
From red within to white as wool:
The rod must heal the sin; but. Lord.
Be merciful to me, a fool.
&
''Tis not by guilt the onward sweep
Of truth and right, o Lord, we stay:
lis by our follies that SO long
We hold the earth from heaven away.
These clumsy feet. still in the mire, -
, 10 CRUSHING b1oss0fns Without end
These hard, wef-meaning hands we thrust
Among the heaIt-strings of friend.
The i'll timed truth we might have kept
Who knows how sharp it pierced and
stung,
The word we had not sense to say
Who knows how grandly it had rung.
"Our faults no tenderness should ask,
The Christening strips must cleanse
them all;
Bat for our blunders-O, in shame
Before the eyes of Heaven we fall
Earth bears no balsam for mistakes:
Men crown the knave, and scourge the
tool
That did his viii; but thou, o Lord,
Be merciful to me, a fool.''
The room was hushed; in silence rose
The King, and sought his gardens cool,
And walked apart, and murmured low,
BE merciful to me, fool.''
BY Edward Rowland sill
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05

One of the questions which will come
before the constitutional convention
now in session in New Hampshire will
be the proper taxation to be assessed
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05
Member Of the Associated Pres.

Inc Associated Press Is exclusively
entitled to the use for publica tion OF ali
nsws despatches credited to 1t and not
the local news published herein.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05
Save the Apples.
(Barre Times.

The destruction of apple trees in Yer
r,ont b. winter-killing has hit the
fruit industry of the state to such an
extent that all measures should be un-
deftaken to save the fruit that is now
in the process of developing The direc-
tor of the Vermont agricultural extern
sion service makes the appeal that APP
pie and pear trees be sprayed at once
IN order to prevent the seab fungus
from getting in its work and also to
drive away the eodling moth. It is
quite imperative to do this if Vermont s
fruit crop is to come near the averase.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05
DADDYSEV[NDM
ARY TALL n1
THE MOONS TALK.
~ MARI GpAHA0RQNNER

"a little girl named Tiddy," said
Daddy, went to visit little girl named
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05

don't look real-though l suppose you
are
I'm real and this is the way look
in this pa2t of the world. Other
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05

An odorless garbage can has been in
vented in which refuse is placed on shelf
and scraped into the receptacle by turn.
ing a handle without opening the lid
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05

The Germans are selling artificial meat,
with Pepper, salt and onions.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05

What to Expect.
We get out of life just what we put
into IL.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05

He bowed his head, and bent his knee
Upon the monarchs silken stool: ;.
Ills pleading voice arose: 90 Lord,
Be merciful to me, a fool! Is
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05

'Tis not by guilt the onward sweep
OF truth and right, o Lord, we stay:
lis by our follies that SO long
We hold the earth from heaven away.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05

The royal feast was done; the King.
Sought some new sport to Danish care.
And to his jester cried: ''Sir Fool,
kneel now, and make for us prayer,"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05

NO pity, Lord. could change the heart
From red within to white as wool;
The rod must heal the sin; but, Lord,
Be merciful to me, a fool.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-05

The jester DOTTED his cap and bells
And stood the knocking court before;
They could not see the bitter smile -
Behind the painted grin he wore.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-05-23
DADDHSEV[NDNl
ARI Al[N1
~ MARI OAHA0 BONNER
FASHIONABLE SNAKES.

The snakes In the zoo were wiggling
with excitement. for many Of them
were about to change their SKINS, and
and out In the country a great many
OF their cousins were doing the same
thing.
When snakes are wild they 90 to
sleep for the winter. In the zoo they
nap and sleep great deal, but not for
the whole winter through-that Is be-
cause they are fed regularly and are
kept SO warm.
Now, Mrs. Sally Snake lived In the
country. and she had been asleep for
the winter. She stretched herself with
a wiggle and said: ooh. am hungry
Now I'll have fine meal for the first
time In three months"
There are many snakes who only eat
every three months. and after each
meal they take nap. The maps of
other snakes are good and long. too !
"And after I've eaten" said Mrs.
Sally Snake, "I'll sleep. All, what Joy
those very words bring to my snake
heart-sleep and eat sleep and eat"
and Mrs. Sally Snake Kissed them over
and over again.
II was not long after this that Mrs.
Sally Snake said: ITS high time for