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The mirror., 1919-11-20
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"All the little boys and girls who wish
TO 60 to heaven said Sunday-school
superintendent, "will please rise.''
Whereupon all, with the exception of
Sammy Scruggs. rose.
'And doesn't this little boy want to 60
to heavenf asked the superintendent.
''Not yeti" said Sammy.
Two sailors at dog show were gazing
at valuable Skye terror, which had so
much hair that it looked more like wooden
mat than dog.
(Which end is is 'ead, Tomi'' asked
one.
"Blowed if know" was the reply,
'but, ere, I'll stick pin in him. and you
look which end barks!''
81 presume you're mighty glad the war
is over.''
SWELL, dom jes' know about dat.''
answered Nanny. "Cose Use glad to have
my Sam back home an all dat, but l jes'
know amt never gwine + get money from
him so regular as did while he wuz in de
army an de Government wuz handlin' his
financial affairs.''
A Hebrew small storekeeper, to the sur
prise of his brethren, suddenly decorated
his window with gorgeous new blind.
'Nice blind of yours, Isaac" quoth his
neighbor.
"Yes, Aaron"
"Who paid for it, Isaacl''
.'The customers paid, Aaron"
''What! The customers paid for it,
Isaacf''
eyes, Aaron, put leedle box on my
counter For the blind And they paid
for it,
A certain methodical teacher had regu-
lar routine of questions which she ASKED her
class every Sunday. The class was always
arranged in the same order, and she began
with the same question: ''Who made
your And the boy at the head of the
class answered, ''God.'' Then to the next
boy, ''Who was the first mani" and he
| answered, ''Adam." One Sunday the first
boy was absent and of course the usually
second boy was at the head of the class.
As usual she began by asking. 'Who
made your and the boy answered,
"Adam.''
"No." the teacher said. ''God made
you."
81 don't think so, miss the boy re-
piled; 'sthe boy that God made is not here
today"
The mirror., 1919-11-20

Saving is thrift. Ee saving-buy
w. S. S.
The mirror., 1919-11-20
GHaprI Hrngran,
Sunday. Novsmber 1s

The following IS the program rendered
in the Auditorium. Reverend Father Barry
officiating.
The mirror., 1919-11-20
Rrian,l @ffirials

c. F.. vasaly, Little Falls
C. ]. Swendsen, St. James
Ralph w. Wbeelock. Minneapolis
Downer Mullen. Secretary.
Board Of Parole
c. E. Vasaly, Chairman
c. S. Reed. Sec'y for Prison
Rev. H. C. Swearingen
H. X w. Scott, Sec'y for Reformatory
The mirror., 1919-11-20

Monday. November IL
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-10

and Eastman holdings at West Rutland,
was produced by Eastman as new evi-
denee in his civil suit case with the Yer
mont Marble Co. after the controversy
had been in the Vermont supreme court.
The document, which contains a 25-years
agreement, was found by Ernest FL.
0'Brien, it is claimed, among old papers
belonging to the iate--AttoEney Joel c..
Baker, three months before the date of
its expiration Much of the evidence of
the perjury case had to do with this
paper and experts along various lines as
well as scores of others testified as to
the genuineness of their own signatures
and those Of prominent business and pro-
fessional men, which appear on the docu-
ment.
The prosecuting attorneys IN the per
jury case were Attorney General Frank
| c. Archibald of Manchester and ". r.
/ Austin of Burlington. Attorneys John
W. Gordon of Barre, NJ G. Leary oil
Burlington and j.. G. Jones of Rutland
defended Mr.. Eastman.
| Mr.. O'Leary, who is attorney for Er
nest IL. O'Brien. who is under Indictment
for alleged perjury ssin connection with
the disputed document in the Eastman
nase, has asked for immediate trial. The
date has not been fixed.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-10
BLAME PLACED
ON THE KAISER
Responsibility for War is
Put on Him by the Allied
Council
GERMANY MUST
PAY FOR 80 YEARS
Commission Decided on
$4,000. 100000 Payment in Two Years
Entire administration of Damage
to Rest on Beaten Country.

x ,s ~
PARIS, April 10.-The Responsibility
of the German emperor for the war
and the means for bringing him to
trial by enc of the allied governments,
probably Belgium, have been definitely
determined upon by the council of four
This follows the definite decision on the
terms of reparations for war damages,
whereby $5,o00,0o0,000 must be paid
within the next two years, and an inter
allied commission assess the remaining
| damage for period of thirty years be-
| ginning May |, 1921.
| Thus two of the great obstacles
which stood in the path of the rapid
attainment of peace have been removed
within the last twenty four hours, and
| the period of extreme tension over the
| inaction and the failure TO obtain tangi-
/ BILE results is succeeded by revived con
fidence over the great advance made
j toward q permanent settlement.
How far these results are due to the
intimations conveyed by the summon
ing. to France of the United States
transport George Washington by Presi-
dent Wilson Is only conjectural. But
it is at least coincidence that the main
i difficulties began to dissolve from the
time that his decision became known
!, The exact nature of these Difficult
tics are not disclosed Friends of thi
President maintain that they wer,
largely of minor character. not in
volving large principles, though tn,
| President 5 adherence to his +. fourteen
| ,fpf hn - l.,
scope of action appears to have run
all through the deliberations during tn
tense period eff the last few days.
While the tension has been greatly
reduced, If is not entirely removed, a
much depends on the continuation o
progress with respect to the remaining
obstacles, notably the Saar Valley. tn
Rhine frontier. the Adriatic issue an
a number of lesser issues which are sti
shcrt of final agreement.
The agreement aon responsibilities TO
the war is understood to have been
compromise between divided report
presented by the commission OF WIie
Lansing is chairman. There was
| practical agreement on the general +.
sponsibility of the German Emperor fo
bringing on the war, but division ot
| Cured on whether 1T was feasible |
bring him to Justice before an intern;
tional tribunal
The French and British view fayore
a tribunal but the American view,
is understood favored moral indie
ment without recourse to prosecution
owing to the lack of an information;
law as a basis for trial before an i
| ternational court
Belgium, on which the war fell fir
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-10
BUY GREEDY HOUSE
FOR PRESERV ALTON
vt. Newspapermen to Maintain Memo
rial to Famous Editor-Worked
in Poultney.

RUTLAND, April lO.-The Horace
Greeley house in East 2oultney was pur-
chased yesterday by Vermont Press
Association committee consisting of c.
". Humphrey, editor and publisher OF
the Poultney Journal; Harry c. White
hall. editor and publisher of the Water
bury Record, and Howard L. Hindley.
editor of the Rutland Herald. The house
is one in which Greeley learned his trade
as printer on the Northern Spectator
early in the last century, before he set
out on foot for Pennsylvania, whence he
was to gravitate to New York and. estab-
lish the Tribune and ultimately become
one of the greatest newspaper editors
this country has ever known.
The house. which viii be preserved as
a memorial to Greeley, was decided per
sonally to the Vermont Press Associa-
tion committee in order to prevent it
from falling into outside hands through
the expiration today of the option which
the committee had secured on it. 1t will
be offered to the association at that or
CARNATIONS next regular meeting. The
National Editorial association and several
newspapers have expressed a desire to
contribute TO the fund necessary for tho
memorial
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-10
CHEROKEE BILL"
OLDEST AMERICAN
Credited by U. S. Census of 1910 with
Being 122 Years old-Hopes
to Be Rich.

GRAND JUNCTION, Col. April 10.l
Nothing ever seems to bother Cher
okee Bill, 122 Years old, credited by
the United States census of 1910 as be-
ing the oldest man IN the United States
He lives on and on in his little hut
along the banks of the Grand river,
south of this city,. Infiuenza, grip,
smallpox and other diseases never both
er him, and he lives like mole-un
derground-eooking all of his own
meals and fving alone.
The statement he gave the census
cnumerator in April 1910. that he was
born in the. lower Mississippi valley
region of this continent June 6, 1877,
is one that he always sticks to. He
was on old man when the civil war
broke ont n 1861 How he got to
Grand Junction, where his people were,
and what he lives on no one seems to
know. He says he is full blooded
Cherokee Indian and that the only name
he has eyer known is just :" Bill, so
| he is called ssGherokee BILL
He gathers his fuel along the rail
way embellishments and on the streets
and in some way. manages to get enough
food TO keepssafiye He appropriated
an old well once. belonging to the city
| water works alie.which was discarded
in 1899, and has been living in the lit
lie underground hovel ever since. He
keeps few chickens and in summer
fishes aud digs for gold along the river
banks. He has shoveled up hundreds
of pounds of heavy black sand from
the river and says some day it vii
ma Ike Him rich. He saws he is prophet
among other things. and tells weirt
tales about his knowledge concerning
the creation of the world. Many per
sons often stop and question him.
He does not appear extremely old a
: first glance, but closer scrutiny reveal
his age. His claim of being l22 year
old is doubted by some. but was ac
cepted by the government, and he seem
to have a most remarkable faculty TO
remembering dates of many importan
IeSents in his life and in history
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-10
PETITION DENIED.
For Increased Rates and curtailed serv-
ice by Passumpsic Telephone Co.

The Vermont public service commits
sion has denied the petition of the Pas
companies in northwest Vermont for an
increase in the rates and fos the redue-
ton of service by cutting out the free
service. The hearings on these occurred
several weeks ago and the commission
has made it's ruling on the matter.
This afternoon another hearing took
place, in which delegations from Or
leans Essex and Caledonia counties APP
pcared in opposition to the new PROPOSE
ton. They are willing that an increase
in rates to a certain extent may take
place, but they will object to the re-
moval of the free service which has
been employed in towns surrounding the
exchanges of the petitioners, which are
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-10
For the Liver and Bowels
in ra,litv the New England Telephone

in reality the New England Telephone
company.
The public service commission today
gave hearing in its Office in Montpe-
lier upon the petition brought by the
Barre and Montpelier Traction and
Power company, IN which the latter
asks permission of the commission to
cross the tracks of the Central YER
mont, Montpelier and Wells River and
Barre and Chelsea railroads. These pc,
titions relate to the places where the
straction eompany's rails cross the steam
road tracks at grade, but the traction
company had allowed the authority to
lapse, therefore, it had to regain author
ity and the petition was brought. One
of the representatives of the steam
railroads stated this morning that there
would be no objection to the petition
Several railway and railroad officials
attended the hearing.
The Abyssinian wife is always consd
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-10
LONG WEARING SQLES
MEAN Low SHOE BILLS

Il have never been able to get half
the service from other soles that get
from Ne0lin Soles, says III. H. Shell
lenberger. a travelling salesman of
Easton, Pa.
Long service from the sQles means
lowered shoe costs, for that is where
shoes wear out quickest. When next
you need new shoes buy them with
Neolin Soles. You pay no more than
for shoes that give less wear-and
you can get them in many styles for
men, women. and children.
Have these durable, comfortable
and waterproof soles put on your old
shoes, too. All good repair shops
carry them. They are made, scien-
tiflcally, by The Goodyear Tire &
Rubber Co, Akron, Ohio, who also
make Wingfoot Heels, guaranteed to
outwear all other heels.
lleolifl So1es
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-10

and heaviest. is reported to have taken
a view much similar to that of the
United States, while Japan and Italy
were partly in accord with the Ameri-
can view.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-10

The Abyssinian wife is always consid
cred to be the head of the house.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-15

"a League of Cities" in the south
east with authorized stock of $I0,-
100000 to secure for this section its
birthright of rich trade with South
America, was born Monday after
noon at a meeting of business men
from Georgia, North and South
Carolina and Florida, held at the
Hotel Ansley. ~ r sts ,s sssslL-v-.,s
The meeting is the second step in
a definite plan to seize the great
opportunity of Soutl American trade
now offered the southeast as re-
suit of conditions following the
war. .-.
First, the five ports of the south
east organized under the name
"South Atlantic Maritime Corpora
ton They are: Wilmington, N.
c., Charleston, S. c., Savannah, Ga,
Brunswick, Ga, and Jacksonville,
Florida. .' .-..
Through this organization, the
ports are seeking to secure ships
from the government to carry. car
goes from the southeast to Southern
American markets. 1t, also is seek
ing a reimbursement, of freight rates
to make possible the rail shipments
to the ports.
That much already has been ac-
complished. The next step to or
ganiZe the manufacturers to furnish
the cargoes for shipment was taken
Monday morning at the meeting. at
the Ansley. -.
Gateways for Commerce
AS a result, there now is in rapid
development a plan to make the four
ports of the south great gateways
of commerce and to add immeasur--
ably to the wealth of the southeast
by trade with South Africa.
The plan is the idea of Matthew
Hale, of Boston. member of the
democratic campaign committee, a
membe of the board appointed by
President Wilson to settle labor dis
putes. and vice president of the Lib
erty Ship Building company, a gov
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-15
HARDING EXPLAINS
COTTON
EXPORT COMPANY

William P. G. Harding, governor
of the Federal Reserve board, which
serve banks, told Monday morning of
the progress of plans for forming a
cotton export corporation to arrange
credits on exports to Europe.
He predicted a distinct revival Of
business as soon as definite peace
has been established.
Mr.. Harding is in Atlanta to speak
Monday afternoon at meeting of
business men held in the interest of
South American trade.
AT a meeting April 10 of 700 dele
gates in Memphis, the plan was un-
export corporation with a capital Of
500, 100000" he said. cit is to
start business with a capital of $780,
100000. A committee of three from
pointed, and committee of five from
the south at large, including Robert
F. Maddox, of Atlanta, as a member.
At a meeting May Is in New Orleans,
these committees will submit to the
trade commission report Of the plan
adopted.
1T is planned to alIot a proper
have this further distributed among
the counties.
payment, and will be held as a per-
n1anent investment and not be put on
the market.
'This corporation should have full
power to buy and sell for export,
make advances on cotton for export,
acquire steamships, have acceptance
powers, and deal in bills of ex-
change based on cotton.
1T is not intended that the cor
poration should use all of it's pow
ers under ordinary conditions. But
in a crisis, as in 1914, the use of
such powers would serve to stabilize
the market.
"The corporation would arrange
credits on a large scale for Euro
pean countries to enable them to buy
cotton. The business. of the cotton
exporter would go on as usual In
tated in times like the present.
LAS a result of the four years
war, Europe is in such condition
that such means of furnishing cred
it's is badly needed.
"a large export cotton corpora
ton, acting for all elements con-
cerned, would be in position to de-
ers and countries. and could arrange
| credits better than the individual
| exporter"
In speaking of business conditions,
| he said:
"As soon as we have definite peace,
| a distinct revival of trade will take
| place. We have passed through the
| readjustment period with much less
disturbance than had been antici-
pated.
that is done and when the peace
| treaty is signed, we will have passed
! definitely out of the period of war
| finance and be back on a normal
peace basis"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-15
Leogue of Cities Is Formed
To Secure South American
Tr0de for This Section

eminent institution to build con-
crete ships.
Mr.. Hale, realizing through his
connection with the Liberty Ship
Building company, the great oppor-
tunity now offered the southeast, and
the. ports, then, together with 4repre7
sentative men of, the south cHgaed the
meeting Monday of business men as
a preliminary to organizing the en-
tire southeast.
Before Mondays meeting, he ex-
planned the purpose and greatness of
the plan.
GA league of the cities and the in
dustries of the south is proposed"
he said, ito secure for this section
it's legitimate share of South Amer
lean trade. Nations in Europe are
almost fighting for outlets to the
sea, yet here in the southeast you
are neglecting tyour ports.
Never again will the southeast
be offered such an opportunity as it
now has. There are five reasons for
this:
1. 1.-The government is now will
ing and ready to cooperate.
2. RAILROAD rates are in a process
of revision and will be fixed within
two months. If the southeast acts
Immediately it can secure what is
3 1.-THE government has ships to
allot. But we must act Immediate
ly because they will all be assigned
in three months.
4. This is the time to change ex-
port connections from New York to
southeastern ports.
5. Business in foreign countries
now is disorganiZed, and this is the
moment TO rthe southeast to make
business connections there
At the meeting held at l o'clock at
the Ansley he went fully into the
plan, which is the broadcast in vision
ever nrODoSe0 for the southeast.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-15
GERMAN DELEGATES
To Be SUMMONED
70 VERSAILLES SOON
F'eace Congress Will Meet
Between April 20 and May
5-Comment on Covenant
of League

PARIS, April 1.-THE status of
the American, Japanese and French
amendments to the covenant of the
League of Nations has been definite
ly established so far as the League
of Nations commission is concerned,
with the American amendment con-
corning the Monroe doctrine the only
one to be given a place in the cove
nant by the commission. The French
and Japanese, however, have both
made reservations which entitle them
to renew, at a plenary session of the
peace conference, the questions in
volved in these amendments, so that
the final decision is still open.
AS to the affairs of the peace con-
ference, as a whole, they are shap-
of Nations question and nearly all
the main points in the peace treaty
virtually disposed Of, so that the
date when the enemy delegates shall
be summoned to Versailles has been
tentatively set. The summoning OF
ed, instead of peace conference
after the enemy delegates are ad-
mitted, will, according to the pres
|ent understanding, occur between
April 26 and May 6, and it is con-
sidered not improbable that a def
mite date may be announced by Pre-
mier Lloyd George when he speaks
the coming Wednesday.
Indications are that the Germans
will be given opportunity to discuss
the peace terms before the congress,
but that no extended discussion will
be permitted, two weeks being sug-
gested as the outside limit for the
sessions to be held at Versailles.
These sessions, it is expected now,
will be attended by President Wilson,
who is said by those close to him
to feel that the progress made to-
wards concluding peace is such that
he will be able to remain for the
Versailles meeting.
The chief question as regards the
peace terms remaining to be settled,
now that the Sarre valley and rep
arations problems have been disposed
of in virtually all their details, is
that of the Rhine frontier. The coun-
cupy itself with this question dur
ing the present week, the debate
probably centering upon the French
contention for security from a mil
itary standpoint, the French attitude
being indicated as a determined one
on this point.
1t is understood also to have been
largely Frances fear from a mill
tary standpoint of what might hap
pen should there be another German
attack that Influenced her represent
atives in their sustained opposition
to the Monroe doctrine amendment
to the League of Nations covenant.
Their argument was that if the Mon
roe doctrine principle were given a
European application the effect might
be that the United States might be
kept from again coming to Frances
help in the event of a future Ger
man ebullition,
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-15
EUROPE WILL GO BOLSHEVIK
IF LEAGUE OF NATIONS FAILS

ert Cecil to Paris, and while 1 must
say that it was the most admirably
worked out proposal presented by any
delegation, the covenant as it stands
today is more American than English.
1 have taken the trouble to underline
in red ink those portions of the cove
nant whose words are taken bodily
from the American original draft
which I have in my possession, and
my copy is streaked with red from
derlined the American ideas as well
as the precise words that were bodily
adopted the covenant would be more
red than black.
ron my return home I find, far
greater amount of discussion going
on in respect to the n1inutiae of the
covenant than was the case in Eu-
rope. Here the discussion seems
more active and thorough-going. This
is all to the good. The more criti-
cism we can offer that will make the
document simple, precise and power
full, the better. The activity of the
senators is to be praised, if not al
ways their arguments.
Criticism Good if Conservative
"But what we object to is not the
criticism that will help the delegates
nant, but the criticism that would
weaken and destroy it. Most of the
senatorial criticism seems to be of
the latter kind. 1t is apparently not
the intention of many of our senators
to see what the United States can
put into the league, but what the
United States can get GU of it.
1.-The fact is that all the trouble
at the peace conference, like trouble
everywhere else in the world, is oW-
ing to human selfishness. The peace
conference has been accused of ''un-
considerable delays. The truth is
that all the delays have been made by
those blind reactionaries of Europe
who are trying to avoid the obliga--
tions they assumed when they agreed
to accept our presidents fourteen
points. Wilson and Lloyd George
would have been measurably nearer
the goal of peace today had it not
been for the achinations of those
selfish individuals, groups, classes
and nations who have been trying to
play at the peace table the old dip
lomatic game of getting something
at the expense of the other fellow.
And these reactionaries, L am asham-
ed to say, have of late dared to show
their heads the more openly owing
to the attitude of some of our sena-
tors and public men who have left no
stone unturned to divide our country
on this greatest of all issues and to
discredit the president"