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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-18
FOOD IN IRELAND
NOT VERY SCARCE
With the Exception of Sugar it is Not
Difficult to Obtaining
land Different.

LONDON. Sept. IT. GORE pondcnfc
of The Associated Press Although on
" thrte-hour boat trip separates Eng
land and ireland theft is as much
difference as between day and night
in the two islands as far as food is
concerned.
For the person who has lived in Eng
land for time and whose habits have
led him to believe is system needs
more than the number Of food calories
science prescribes, Ireland IS wonder
ful place to dine in
If does not follow that sufficient food
is not available in England Is
sufficient to hcalthilv maintain the
system bat there is a difference bctwcet
hat and eating large steak properlT
decorated. That can be accomplished
in ireland at reasonable cos, bet rot
in England at any price
I ireland is not rationed voluntarily Or
otherwise and there is plenty of CIV
~ryt hing with the exception of sugar.
In respect to food it is more pleasantly
.ltuated than the United States or Eng
+ land because prices have not advanced
as they have in America aud are no
higher than IN England where the min
! istry of food not only rations but con
trolls prices. Ireland always has sent
Quantities of meat and dairy products
to England AID is still doing SO.
Americans who have been in England
and tried to become accustomed to tho
four ounces Of meat Ut meal and az
absence of fat in cooking wherever pos
aihle. on arriving in Ireland fairly
gorge themselves for a few days or
meat, drink quantities of milk and dc
not spare the butter. They had not
been getting milk at all except with {
physician s prescription and butter was
limited TO less than an ounce day.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-18
440 AT MIDDLEBURY.
JolIege Unable to Handle Number of
Students Wishing 60 Enter.

MIDDLEBURY, sepf. slS.-ttp to
Monday 40 students had registered Mt
diddlebry college, this being the
argest number IN the history of the
institution, and was then necessary
to close the registration. the college
being unable to handle q larger nur,-
Der.
Yesterday was devoted TO registering
students and assigning them 10 rooms.
many being quartered in private houses.
The formal opening of the 10th wear
viii be held IN Mead Memorial chapel
omorrow morning at clock when
he opening address viii be delivered
By President John NJ Thomas.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-18
Wounded Soldier Returns.

FAIR HAVEN, Sept 1s.-Franci
Maley of this town, mentioned in thl
usually list rs having been wounded
n France, arrived at Newport News,
Va, Sept, 9, having been invalided to
this country. He probably viii be sent
Q a hospital in New York for treat
ment Mr. Malev is a son of Mrs. Mar
garet MaIcv of this town. He enlisted
n the Connecticut National Guards at
Hartford in 1916 and went to the Mex
can border with his company. He en-
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-18
PICTURE CARDS
OF OCCUPIED TOWNS
Intelligence Branch Wants Them 50 Of
fcers Can Familiarize Themselves
With Territory.

NEW YORK, Sept. lS.-Old picture
post cards and photographs OF France
81 Belgium or any territory now &C
cunied bv the Germans are needed by
the war departments according to an
open Icttor written by William Guggen-
helm, chairman Of the army aud navy
committee Of the American defense 50
cietv TO the American people This let
ter which IS written at the request Of
Maiof A. G. Campbell, Of the military
Intelligence branch OF the war depart
mcut reads:
~ prge patriotic Americans TO for
ward amy picture post cards. photo
graphs and prints Of any Of the towns
ana Of The country now occupied by
the Germans in Belgium and northern
France 70 American defense society a
~ East 23d street. New York city from
where they win be sent Go the war
department, as they VIII be Of value
to OAR officers abroad who can familiar
ize themselves with the appearance Of
localities toward which they are cd
yancing which will undoubtedly be 9
distinct aid in military operations.
especially urge people who have
travelled abroad and who have collect
cd postal cards to carefully sort these
with 4 view TO their being used by the
waI department Written description
of the territory already mentioned vii
fbe of considerable value.''
(
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-18
After Many Years.

And now once more the cyclcr brings
His wheel from out the she'd,
And as he dusts 1t off he sings
With JOY, a pleasant trip ahead.
The sprol5et and the whole machine
He tests and starts with glee:
But coming back how changed the
scene
A heart-sick man is he.
From knee to neck one mass of ache
How long the miles stretched out!
The trial trip proved hard to take
But gas was saved no doubt
-Exehange.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-18
Gunshot Wound in Thigh.

ST. ALBANs, Sept, 1s.-Mrs. Francis
Williams has received telegram from
shc Canadian war department stating
hat her son, Private Raymond Stanton
'eccived a 2Unshot wound in the right
high September 3. The young man
Is with the infantry.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-18
For Wky2

Thanks TO the X-ray photograph"
said Mrs Lconidas W. VanQupentin
before her club, tone may keep the
memory of her operation alive even
after the pleasure of the pain and suf
fering are long ssince gone" Pitts,
burgh Leader.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-18

tered the federal scTviceew the Ma
lonal Guard was called in the present
war and was transferred to Company
q, 102d infantry, going overseas in Dc
ODER, I9l7., Mr.. Maley received shrap-
lel wounds IN both legs and feet in the
battle of Boureschos July %.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-18
WESTINGHOUSE BREAD LINE.
Il Consist. Of F9lks Waiting to &c
into Rastaurant7

WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept. IS
The bread line IS now one of the ia
miliar sights in Washington. This
does not mean line of people unable.
to paJ for food. 1t gathers at dinner
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-18

Thirteen million men registered in tn
nitcd unlueky for the kaiSert-
Boston Globe
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-10-25
Objection to Farms By Returned Soldiers
Is Cause Of Worry
By DR.. ]. T. SIMMONS Of Toronto

for the soldiers returning from the and the suggestion
plan be evolved place them farms being given serious
among students great deal has been written in the
this problem purely academic Itshas been suggested
soldier has lived long out of doors that he will be oah to
the desk factory In there lot OF truth IN this
the of the soldier to be constant contact
rith bis comrades
Not long ago survey two hundred soldiers who were IN
made by expert Canada showed that
had been brought farms but only about 10
cent had remained very small proportion owned farms and only
per declared they wanted to return to agriculture This OF
course regretted not look very promising For the plan
TO send the soldiers to the farms
that great from the FARMS since the war began
gone into the cities and entered factories greatly advanced
They had of the city life and it will be difficult to get them
the FARMS It therefore going to be very serious prob
lem We have have till the soil to feed the people
the cities The farm tractor and other improved farm machinery will
help make for the lack Of but machinery be without
the help Of and the population increasing all the tme making
increased production Of food products absolutely This
~ the most difficult results of the and which viii require great
deal Of study and planning to meet.
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-10-25

these journeys the
possibility additional shpoad of soldiers and munitions to France
the allies compelled these remote markets Tor their
whole would 100000 ship
ping than present for this purpose North America could
year provide whole of allied necessities could 5OOO
shipping Every ship built The weight OF
against will limited not alone by the ships build
but by the ships that
forced rely wholly the remote markets for
soldiers France today Nor will the burden
grow future every ship build will be needed to
replace losses and army at the front
Therefore the whole war-food problem simply and solely deter
food that be spared from North America
marginal from the remote markets
ability supply the allied world with food lies four directions:
usually produces small surplus OF food
for export above normal consumption This surplus
export without economic disturbance.
years exported to other countries than the allies
partial complete embargo of these shipments slightly increase
the supplies available to the allies
Third We expand the planted, and harves
thereby enlarge the surplus for export through increasing
production
normal consumption and Of food anywhere
necessary maintain public
strength restrict the national
sumption need and thereby increase exports
have thus far the allies concerned, four marginal
small normal surplus the embargo abnormal surplus
stimulated production and further surplus to be created
consumption Our ency of IN these
principally the latter such that have the
the strength Of the allies and people, and
hystera Our world food situation is not to be
interpreted terms OF soldiers
France aenatvey be interpreted terms OF larger ship
building programs
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-10-25

NO HINT OF DISORDER IN PRES
EMIT RETIREMENT Is SEEN
BY v. S. OFFICIALS.
POSSIBILITIES ARE GREAT
Rapidly of Allied Pursuit Gives No
Opportunity For Rest or Reorgani-
zation-Enemy Has Little Time
To Prepare Defense Line.

Washington While the German
retreat in Belgium has great POSSIBLE
tiles, military opinion here is that it
is well ordered and executed with
drawal, probably upon prepared posi-
lions. The face that reports from
other portions of the front, notably
from the Lille area and the sector
southeast of Laon, also tell of retire
ments, gives the movement indica-
tons of a general withdrawal, but as
yet no official information has come
as to the line upon which the enemy
will attempt to stand.
Army officials take no notice of the
many reports of an impending COM
plete capitulation in seeking the ex-
PLANTATION of the German maneuvers.
They ascribe these operations to def
mite and well developed plans of the
German General Staff 1t is said that
the enemy probably has begun the
second phase of the withdrawal he
result of relentless pressure by Mar
shall Foch all along the battle line.
Lacking the reserves with which to
make stand on an extended front,
il is to be assumed that he is falling
back to much shortened line, where
he can show greater resisting power.
There is reason to believe, how
ever, that under the hammering Of
the allied and American armies, the
German high command has been COM
PEELED to make a compromise. In
stead of holding on to the front lines
until the new front was in complete
readiness, it is regarded as probable
that the advanced positions are be-
ing abandoned barely in time to avoid
enlightenment and that the retreat is
being made to defenses not fully
equipped and not manned with ex-
tensive reserves. If this is true, the
retiring armies must turn and fight
again when they reach the new lines.
The rapidity of the allied pursuit
gives no opportunity for rest or or
ganization.
The genius of the German General
Staff is shown, officers say, in the
skill with which the withdrawal has
been conducted thus far and It is still
evident that well ordered move
ment is clearing enemy forces out of
the Belgian coast The situation
there is hazy in many respects, how
ever, due to the swiftly changing ma
ture of the lines. Pursuing cavalary
may upset the whole German sched-
ule and large captures result.
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-10-25
FEDERAL AID FOR HIGHWAYS
Under Terms of Act Secretary of Agri-
culture May Deal With State
Highway Department.

Much misunderstanding seems to
prevail as to the means by which fed
eral aid in road building under the
federal aid road act of 1916 may be
obtained, says recent publication Of
the United States department of agri-
culture.
MANY county officials and private
citizens" says the publication, Sub
NIT to the department of agriculture
inquiries or applications looking to the
obtaining.of federal aid for local high
way. ITO these inquiries and applica-
tons the answer is invariably made
that under the terms of the federal
act itself the secretary of agriculture
may deal only with the state highway
department of roads. Responsibility
for repair of roads upon which fed
#eral aid Is to be expended rests with
the state highway department"
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-10-25
DOCTOR"
BELIEVED WIZARD
Stranue Old Man in Missouri
Who Enbittered the
Countryside.
is SHOT TO DEATH
Suspected of Setting Fires and De-
stroyinq Grain, He Is Waylaid at
Night by Angry Neighbors
and Killed.

Kansas City-High up in a lonely
cabin, on an elevation in an overflow
district of the Missouri river, for more
than 80 years the mysterious ''yarb
doctor of Charlton county brewed his
medicines from herbs of the forest and
made prophecies to the country folk.
Who he was or where he came from
no one ever knew. He gave his name
as Sturman, but he never revealed his
true identity. His prophecies of death
and calamity came true 50 surely that
the people of the vicinity accredited
him with the powers of a wizard and
feared him.
1t is said that he predicted the pres
ent world war, declaring way back IN
the early seventies that sin the last
part of the first quarter of the new
century the harvest fields will be
stripped of their cleaners, as they will
be fighting foe on foreign soil, with
weapons not seen before"
All of his remedies the old doctor
prepared in room which he allowed
HO Ohe W elSe W euleI. Inc 6iuy,
weather-beaten house straddled the
mound like a drunken horseman, look
ing as if at any time it might reel into
the lap of the swamp lands below.
A Tall, Bent Figure.
The appearance of the old man was
in keeping with his habitation. A tall,
bent figure bumped over cane;
black eyes that glittered under
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-10-25

thatchlike eyebrows; long, unlsempt
beard and hair, surmounted by a COON
skin cap.
The sight of him coming down the
road in his ramshackle buggy, drawn
by rickety old gray mare, made the
children scamper from the roadside.
The old man was a cripple when he
mysteriously put in his appearance in
the Missouri township. He was able to
get around only by means of his horse
and buggy. Although he gave freely
and without charge of his remedies,
he refused to "neighbor' with anyone.
As he slipped his toddy in the little
crossroads store he quarreled with
the bystanders. He was constantly
engaged in some lawsuit and made
many bitter enemies.
And then there came a July night
when the men of the community decid-
ed the old doctor had been a neighbor-
hood nuisance long enough. There
had been several fires in the township.
Buggy-wheel tracks were seen in the
vicinity of each. Following the fires
number of sacks of wheat that, were
loaded at the old Keytesyille landing
ready to be shipped to Kansas City
we're cut one night and thousands of
bushels of grain lost. The same
wheel tracks were seen near the land
Ing. The community was enraged.
The old .tyarb doctor" was held re-
,ponsible.
The next afternoon, as he was jog
ging homeward, d number of men am
pushed in the lonely road riddled his
body with bullets and hastily buried
him in a shallow grave.
superstitious Fear.
The community approved, but later
On a dozen men were arrested for the
murder. When the court ordered the
Cody of the murdered man to be ex-
humed the whole neighborhood was
alarmed. They feared life might come
again to the old doctor. Prayer meet
Ings In the churches and at the old
:amp-meeting ground were set for the
DAY.
Each man arrested, however, proved
an alibi. The prosecution was sudden
| Iy ended. The body was supposedly
nailed up In a walnut box and buried
/ In a deep grave. The neighborhood
rested easier.
The grave In the woods, however, Ia
said to be, a haunted spot.
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-10-25

cover three stalwart soldiers injected
themselves into the fray.
"There amt goin' to be no more
fightin' in this block" one of the three
soldiers said as they stood facing the
crowd gathering. '"There amt no
such thing as the Car Barn gang any
more. That stuff don't go. Wen give
you a good cleanin' up if you don't
stop cop fightin'. If you want to fight,
join the army"
The soldiers, 1pping the beads of
Precipitation from their browS, walked
toward the policemen and prisoners.
"This you. PIGGY McKay?" a po-
liceman exclaimed, as he for the first
time observed the features of one
of the soldiers. "And I'll be bowed
If you haven't got Lefty O'Neill and
Rat Face Wilson with you! The
three of you are sergeants, too"
"Yes, we are through cop fightin',"
Sergeant Mckay said. ''We belong to
the government now, and that means
we're for the law. We came back to
the old neighborhood to look for a
couple of deserters and few of the
rats who are slackers. The new
draft will get a good many of you
fellows, and then Wen all be together,
one big gang"
The policemen were amazed at the
transformation of Lefty" "Rat Face"
and "Puggy." Many battle they
had given the policemen when they
were members of the Scar Barn
gang"
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-10-25
ROADS SAVED FRANCE TWICE
Had 1t Not Been for Radiating System
Germans Would Have Crossed
Marine ard Reached Paris.

Good roads have twice saved France
in the present war, observes Farm and
Fireside Had it not been for the radi-
ating road system maintained by the
French government, the Germans
would have won the battle Of the
Marine and reached Paris. The Ger
mans had calculated on only three di-
visions being sent out from Paris to
stop the invasion. Instead, the excel
lent system of highways made it pos
sible for five divisions TO be sent to
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-10-25
NOTORIOUS CAR
BARN GANG PASSES
War Breaks Up One of Toughest
of New York'S Hood
Lum Bands.

New York.-The war has cleaned
out the famous "Car Barn gang OF
New York city. The lair of the noto-
rious gangsters has become an almost
forgotten place, and, while groups of
fighters remain in the vicinity of First
and Second avenues, they no longer
are a source of terror to the police
men. The last outbreak came Il few
nights ago when officers were sum-
mOned to the noted rendezvous to
quell a disturbance. While they were
driving the disturbers of the peace to
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-10-25
Soldier Returns Money.

Monaco, Pat am about to sail
FOR over there and I feel as though !
win never come back. Fourteen years
ago / picked your pocketbook Of S11
and want to square up. / hope You
and God viii forgive a lonely soldier
boy. / am sending you SIS for a little
interest. / am on my last furlough.' .
This was the letter which accompanied
the cash received by Mrs. Nicholas
Stoffel. His conscience relieved,
some lonely soldier boy" Is on bis way
70 fight the Hun.
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-10-25

this front. Again, shortly after the
battle of Verdun started, the French
railroad which was to furnish many Of
the supplies to the troops was de-
stroyed. The French government, how
ever, had a maeadam road 81 feet wide
on which four lines of traffic, two in
either direction, were maintained. Day
and night $4,000 motortrucks carried
men and equipment.
The traffic never stopped. When a
hole was made in the road, man with
a shovelful of rock slipped in between
the lines of trucks and threw the rock
into the hole, then jumped aside to let
the truck roll the rock down. Then an
other man would follow his example,
and so on until the hole was filled.
Trucks that broke down were showed
aside and repaired almost instantly.
Had the French depended on their rail-
road or on poor highways the Germans
would have won the battle.
There are few places in which good
roads will win great military victories.
But there are many places in which
they will win great victories in time of
peace. Whenever a crisis-military
economic or social-occurs in the life
of a community, the condition of the
road is a significant factor in deter
mining whether the community will go
up or down, forward or backward. The
community with good roads is the COM
ntunity that will deliver the goods
when the necessity comes.
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-10-25
High Tribute Paid to American Women
for Wonderful War Work
b. MISS HELEN FRAZER EnsE.A suar.si.,

The American wonderful people know
little Of what they doing Do you know, example, that there
100000 American engaged work. that their Red Cross
supplies work simply admirable that their savings organization has
'Nsised third of the Liberty loan?
people here understand that America and
before voluntarily Of beef
&onf and wheat in order o it for us?
They feel that this for the first time history womans
well returning to the United States for another
the The the of the two
aons understand better win for
separated Great Britain and America the old
81 i for the to bring them together again.
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-10-25
GREAT RECORD IN MATRIMONY
Chicago Salesman Has Had Three
Wives, Two Divorces and Mar
ries Fourth.

Chicago.--William K. Nourse, a
sales manager of piano concern
here, has in the thirty-fve years Of
his busy life acquired the following
matrimonial record: three wives, an
irate father-in-law, two divorces, a
marriage annulment, and two years
and nine months In the penitentiary
for bigamy. And now, with that nice
' out of the way-the latter event,
We mean-he has just obtained a
license to wed his fourth, chit of
girl by the name Of Georgia Burton,
age twenty.
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-10-25
Would Gust the Kaiser.

Zurich, Switzerland.-In an extra
ordinarily outspoken article, the
Franklische Tagespost, the Nuremberg
Socialist organ, demands the abdica-
ton, of the German emperor. 1t de-
clares that the responsibility for the
present situation rests on him and
says that as the military system is
about to collapse, he must be the
last of the military monarchs.
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-10-25
Machine Gun Goes on.

New York. Soldiers at Camp
Mills, L. T.. received tragic foretaste
of war when a machine gun attached
to an airplane in flight accidentally
went off, sending bullets among the
men of a sanitary corps. One soldier
was fatally wounded and two others
hurt seriously.
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-10-25
Mines Badly Damaged.

Paris. - 1t will be from Is months
to two years before it will become
possible to take out any coal from the
mines in Lens region, which, the Ger
mans damaged by flooding before they
retired from the city, an inspection
of the mining properties has revealed.
It is estimated that it will take five
years to restore the normal produc-
ton of the pits.
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-10-25
sorohum Mills Licensed.

Columbia. Mo.-All sorghum mills
are required to take out license by
the United States Food Administra-
ton, regardless Of the volume OF bust
ness done, and, also, regardless OF
whether the mills are operated on a
toll basis, says an announcement from
the state food administrator office.
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-10-25
Would Use churcshes.

Washington.-Wid and persistent
efforts having their origin in Berlin
have been made to get the churches
of both neutral and belligerent coun-
tries to call conference which, I'M
der another name. practically would
be peace conference.
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-10-25
ARMY TRUCKS lNJURE ROADS
Enormous Cars Do Almost Irreparab.e
Damage to Highways, improved
or Unimproved.

Every state highway department
which has had experience with army
trucks knows that these enormous cars
do almost irreparable damage to all
roads, improved or unimproyedf This
is particularly true when the adAeg'
move in trains, as is customary.