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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-01
At the Library
The Smith College Unit.

AT the present time there is hardly
any subject more vital than the restora-
ton and construction of the war-ravaged
countries of Europe.
On March II the Womans club is to
give Brattleboro people an opportunity
to hear an address on the work of the
Smith College Relief Unit in France, the
peaker being its director, Mrs. Harriet
Boyd Halves, who as Red Cross nurse
las nursed in three wars. She originated
he idea of a relief unit composed of
nd financed by the alumnae of Smith
college.
In connection with the work of this
init the following articles in periodicals
ire very interesting:
First Mass at Greeourt; the Personnel
md Early Work of the Smith College
Unit. R. Gaines. Survey, Nov. 10. 1917.
Rolling pins, Fruit Trees and Shoes
he First College Women's Unit to Work
n France. H. H. White Independent
Aug. IL, 1917.
Where College Girls Are Doing Socia
Service. Literary Digest, Dec /, 1917.
Eighteen Girls from Smith College. L
T. Nicholl. Ladies' Home journal, April
9lS.
1 Last to Leave; How Smith Colleg
4irls Helped Refugees and Troops il
he Great Battle. NJ. L. VOLTS indie
PENDENT, June %, 1918.
Reconstruction in France NJ. II. Wa
yenhals. Nation, Apr. IS, 1918
| Wars Terrors Cannot Keep Smit
iirls from the Front Literary Diges
Tune 10, 1918.
A Working Visit With the Smith Co
eye Girls at Grecourt, Literary Diges
March %, 1918.
II Yankee Peddlers in the Somme; tn
smith College Relief Unit at Work. j
James. Survey, March ?, 1918.
II Miss Ruth Gaines, the author Of tw
Of the above articles, has also write
book, A Village in Picardy, on the sui
ect. 1t is entertaining as well as il
formative, and the illustrations bring oil
particularly the pathetic features OF Il
situation.
| Back of the Front in France, by Am
Owen Bradley, tells the writer's exper
snees in her work for the American Fun
| for French Wounded.
In his book, Out to Win, Coningst
Dawson devotes long chapter to Amer
can relief work in Europe, describing Il
work of the Red Cross and other orga
cations, among them the Smith Collie,
| Unit.
H Dorothy Garfield Fisher in Home Fir
n France; Mildred Aldrieh in The Pc,
If the Load: and Madame Frances CIV
SOM Huard in With Those Who Wa
also write of France in wartime. T
| work and writings of Edith Wharf
are also notable along the same line
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-01
Resorts to Date Lines.
Barre Times

Readers of the Springfield Mass
Republican could scarcely believe their
eyes when that venerable Journal ap-
peared with date line preceding ev-
cry despatch, whether from Chicopee or
from Vladivostok, in contrast to the
former policy of concealing the source
of the dispatch in the body of the story
itself. 1t is now possible for the read
ers of that paper to determine at the
outset whether they are getting story
of Longmeadow, Mass, or the Orient.
Needless to say, the change makes a
great improvement.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-01
I oday's Events

Today is st. Davi1's day, the national
festal day of thesWelsh people.
Today is the centennial of the birth of
Alexander NJ. Bell, noted educator, and
father of Alexander Graham Bell, in
ventor of the telephone
The first exhibition of the Manufac-
tuners Aircraft association is to open to-
day IN Madison Square Garden, New York
City, for an engagement of two weeks.
Wartime restrictions ON railroad din
mg-ear service, are to be abolished to-
day by order of Director General Hines
OF the Federal Railroad Administration.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-01

The selection of Congressman Gillet
as speaker of the House of Representa-
tives shows what the return of Repub-
lican congress means to New England,
reinstatement to place in our nation
al councils. His subordination of ego
ism to thoughtful and studious work
through twenty.four years of life in the
House is not likely to be abandoned
and will make him valuable servant to
his party and nation.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-01
TO ADVERTISERS.
TO THE SUBSCRIBERS.

1t is the aim of the management to secure
efficient service in the delivery of the paper
each night, and il solicts the cooperation of
be given of each failure to receive the paper
the morning following the omission, in
person, by telephone or postal card, thus en-
abling the cause OF the error to be promptly
edy Immediately applied. 1t is only by this
method that the publisher can secure the Se-
sired service
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-01
States Chief Of siam returned from
Today's BIRTHDAYS

Aimaro Sato. former japanese ambas-
sador to the United States, born 90 years
ago today.
Louis X. Anspacher, writer of a num-
Der of successful plays, born in Cincin-
natl, Al years ago today.
DIR. j. Ross Stevenson, president of
Princeton Theological Seminary, born at
Ligonier, Pa, 80 years ago today.
Dir. Walter G. Clippinger. president of
0tterbein University, born in Franklin
County, Pa, 46 years ago today.
| William Dean Howeils, one of the
foremost of American men of letters.
born at Martins Ferry, o., 50 years ago
today.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-01

The Burlington News thinks that most
people are more interested in July l than
July this year. Possibly their interest
is centered more in the effect the first
will have upon the fourth.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-01

The regime of the new German presi-
dent is tottering already reports a New
York Sun correspondent. A new Euro
pean government which doesn't totter
some in two weeks time will be record
breaker in these days of revolutions and
political upheayals.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-01

The city of Springfield, Mass. has in
formation that one of the ships of the
feet viii be given the name
Springfield. Already bottle of cham
payne has been set aside for christening
purposes in case the boat should be fin
ished before July l. That city is evil
IDENTIFY firm believer in preparedness.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-01

Secretary Glass has asked that all
Americans pay their war taxes cheerful
ly. Has anyone found filling an income
tax blank conducive to cheerfulness?
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-01
1913-1919

ago began newspaper
attended by
folks who felt that Baeboro hardly
ban institution but with faith and determination
that what had been other communities similar could
compshed Without boastful
ision be said that the belief of those behind the
At
position
institution without
surrounding distinctly handicapped
sentia the industrial and social fabric of this locality its
will deny and they made solely for the the
faith in an ideal.
its establishment policy guiding
formers destiny has something
the days Without losing sight the fundamental
and they have tried according their
to have its columns WELD active Influence behalf enterprise
looking toward the tement of
the And in this effort they
successful small of their reward lies the satisfaction the
shment brings For after all fulfill
rather than profit takes foremost place in its
Unusual opportunities to be public have The Reomer
the During that that has altered the whole
thought revoluonZed individual responsibility
the that
within awakening public
It's
ton patriotic enterprise and it has ndeavored possible
lead rather than follow the furtherance of their The
influence this direction be left readers this
nece not out place point to Baeboro splendid record
branch of record which the value of medium
interchange of ideas has been repeatedly and
nized
due nndbe degree the loyalty and
making
20 whose contributes each have
March 1913 and their intelligent interest panstakng
practice suggested improvement have been the
the growth No force loyal entitled
topr fol msefsh service in the face of difficulties
the The Refoer looks with determination
ideals of shall be fulfilled greater
than heretofore hope that the realization of this bring
and contentmn those
whom it's the servant
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-01

Gen. Ludendorff says his book which
he has been writing during his period of
seclusion in Sweden, will show where the
blame should lie for the war. As our
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-01
compulsory work for all which will nc
doubt start another revolution.

Hamburg street in West Roxbury
Mass has been changed to Ryan street
Hamburg steak still continues to retain
its German appellation.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-01

Another turn in the screws of the dry
lid" in New Hampshire is contemplated
in a, bill now before that legislature
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-01
One Year Ago Today in the War.

British armed mercantile cruiser, Cal
garian, torpedoed off Irish coast.
Forces of Gems. Kaldeine and Korniloff
defeated by Bolsheviki near Rostof on
Don.
Maj. Gen. Peyton c. March, United
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-01

Its a dull day that doesn't bring a
Spartaean outbreak somewhere in Ger
many" says the Manchester Union.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-01

The veteran who returned from the
war with a wooden leg has nothing on
the nurse who entertains dreams of her
bridal day-with a cedar chest,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-01

mind is already made up on this mat
ter we shall forego the pcrusal of Mr..
Ludcndorff's publication.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-01
Member of The Associated press

The Associated Press is exclusively en-.
titled to the use for publication of all news
dispatches credited to it and not otherwise
credited in this paper and also the local news
published herein.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-01

And now a crusade against further
window displays of filmy, flimsy "trip
peries for women.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-01

The Bolsheviki government in Russia
is preparing TO enforce the principle of
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-01

throws a little additional barbed wire
around physicians prescriptions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-08
A DEBT OF GRATITUDE

TT HE people of Birmingham duties to perform
 They must send the Victory Liberty Loan the top and they must complete the fund of $200O0 ertaning the 167th regiment The soldiers their to Birmingham. The loan drive ends this week. Time is precious
 The toll of the world is placed at 15, 100000 lives It IS estimated that all the who lost their lives that titanic struggle could back from their graves they would form an army of 9000000. Yet, ,0000 900 servave estimate Millions have been butchered in their home have died of starvation exposure
 This tghtful total almost beyond human comprehension save for the loss of who died France loss small Tn comparison with the number and civilians who were war victims in Europe, the American people touched lightly The struggle waged far we dd not hear the of guns did long o1 returning ambulances loaded with ghasty freight NO heavy artillery laid and towns and no bombs were dropped from the skies
 fet victory came to banners To given credit tor turning the tide Our dollars fought soldiers fought Now merely asked the job-to lend or our means once to complete the successfully begun and ably carried dramatic climax at Yer
 es yesterday when the terms of the peace treaty were gwen to Germany's representatives
 Sheer gratitude should Birmingham and the nation to oversubscrbe the Victory Liberty And sense of our deep obligation to the the 167h regiment should result Tn quickly raising the of the fund for their entertainment while they the cty's guests
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-08
William L. Harrison
 Goes To Montgomery

1T JEFFERSON county by a decisive O majority has selected MT. Will liam L. Harrison as representative of the county in the state legislature and he will assume his new duties when the state lawmakers assemble again this summer.
 MT Harrison made his race upon the ground that the laboring men of the county were entitled to have one of their own number as a representa- tive at Montgomery. He is not only the local representative of the national organization of the United Mine Work CTS, but he is president of the Ala barua Federation of Labor. The la boring men of the district and of the state are to be congratulated upon the fact that they are to have a repre- sentative of ability, integrity and con- viction at Montgomery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-08

E visit which has New Orleans and Mobile v rerre sentative Aabamns and harbo two ces bring Alabama important question F " ' The port of Mobile which entitled in the worlds harVes warehouses terminal facilities situation created y the war Five cities the Atlantic Wilmington Charleston unwc Savannah and Jacksonhve Southeast Coast foreign trade - ~ ~ Mobile located midway to meet such happens state Alabama through its river connections outlet the of the world matter of making becomes statewide which titled to the assistance 0 the
 Louisiana more than s25 OoO in bonds for the developments cen because the port charges have and there already treasury aiding retire. of the recognized whatever helped the port of New Orleans helped the
 In Alabama though he may w Tar from the coas though reside though he be located cost of everything he buyscng food building wrapped with Aabama of handling outside world the world the prices he his compelled for those articles which him by rail- the is fixed by the facilities.
 Last Monday there dscag New Orleans certain amount of money for the people of Louisiana
 If Mobile be developed to such will be greatest Aabama history will prosperity for this whole section because will wide the world markets products from steel and iron The will feel will Lumber will feel
 
 markets afforded
 only port does not belong to Mobile nor to south Alabama
  this section and thus become a matter of interest to all
 
 with rendering Mobiles development Experts submit put legislature consideration The bids be the serious attention which it is entitled
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-08
WN 7 ASHINGTON, D. C.. May T.
 WNW (Special)-Syra, one of the
small nations whose dispositio

small nations whose disposition is peace conference problem, and which has indicated informally that it would prefer to be mandatory of the United States, is described in the following buIle- tin, based upon a communication to the National Geographic society:
 Syria, the region extending from the Taurus mountains to Egypt and from the desert to the Great sea- is the land of the patriarchs and prophets and apos- t1es-'the Holy Land.
 Its population numbers about 3,500,o0o, of Smetic origin. speaking the Arabic language, and yet with many races intermingled through the centuries Of the various conquests and occupations that the people cannot claim any one race as their own.
 Greek, Roman and European crusader have all blended with the ancient Semitic stock to produce the Syrians of today, whom Lord Cromer. in his memoirs. termed the cream of the east.
 'In Syria was the one green spot of Turkey-the Lemanon mountains. In an- cient times the mountains were every where covered with forests The cedars of Lebanon not only furnished timber for the building of Solomons temple in Jerusalem, but the kings of Egypt an- nually floated large rafts of logs from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-08
LUKE M,LukE SAYS

The fact that she can't play it makes no dlIference. A woman wants a piano because the woman next door has a piano.
 Once in every mans life he touches the buzz saw just to see if it is as sharp as other people claim it is.
 If you had an official stenographer following you and you went over your talk every night you would discover that two-thirds of what you said should have been left unsaid.
 A hired girls. may not get acquainted with the dust under the beds for five weeks. But she'll get acquainted with the family skeleton in five minutes
 A mean cuss claims that the self-starter is nothing new. The first one was in- vented the day Eve was equipped with a talking apparatus.
 And tho boss can tell you that most employees are more worried about getting their salaries than they are about earn ing them.
 Why is it that man has to wait until his wife has shape like the back of limousine before he discovers that he didn't marry his affinity? Funny how man likes to tell you how to run your business and how mad he'll get if you try to tell him how to run his business.
 It is hard to please some men, They will spend five years wishing they were married and then spend 25 years wishing they were not married. Another damli: Once upon a time there was a husband who was as we'll satisfied with his wife as he was with himself We are crazy bunch. A man seems to imagine that he is foolish to be in love with girl after she has become his wife. Every time a farmer reads of some fellow who makes living playing tennis the poor farmer is so disgusted that he has to take dose of liver medicine
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-08
ISOLATION

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. 6T1HE hermit and the hermitage, for a man or for nation, never were
 S in a disfavor so profound as at this time.
 Everybody is needed and everybody has something to do
 Emerson used to say that no man is useless while he has friend.
 You may be so weak that you can hardly stagger, yet there are those who are leaning upon the residuum of your strength or upon your moral support.
 The great gift of sympathy is price less gift, which it is in the power of the poorest to bestow.
 Some generous souls have sighed for riches, in the feeling that if they had wealth they would dispense it wisely.
 T know So-and-so,' you will hear some should like to build good home for him and surround him with comfort. should like to let him spend his declining days in easy leisure.'' And perhaps it would be doubtful mercy!
 But if you cannot bestow the generous gifts that a millionaire gives his daugh- ter when she marries. or that princes are expected additionally to confer on other princess you have something still more valuable-something so precious that it is beyond appraisal in dollars and cents.
 You have yourself. Your own friend ship is yours to withhold or to vouch- safe.
 It is for you to say whether you will draw within the shell of your own be-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-08

General Foch continues to believe that where Germany is concerned an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
 * S x If all the ex-crowned heads write memoirs there will be a large contri- button to the literature of reminiscence.
 * * * Maybe Won Hindenburg resigned from the German army because he didn't want to be the last man out
 * # * Women are showing an ability to put over" an election in the repre- hensible style peculiar to men.
 * # * The meteorologist has found a new sphere of usefulness in giving weather tips to airmen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-08

1 the misanthrope or the life of one who loves his kind and wants to show it.
 The sunny-tempered folk are wanted everywhere.
 None can resist the power of smile with sincerity behind it, of hand with true and, hearty welcome in the ting ling warmth of it.
 It keeps one normal to ''be with folks.' NO man was ever intended to shut himself up, to shelve himself behind a glass as if he were a dry and dusty specimen in a museum.
 He needs the light and the air; he needs to keep out in the open, if he would be normal and human. T could preach you all sorts of sermons on living in solitude" wrote a man who, by his own wiIlful cleo tion. got more loneliness than was good for him.
 When a man shinks from the usual eo- cial contacts with other men there is something the matter with him. He has a grief or a guilt to hide, and others could usefuTly help him to- bear the first and to expiate the second, and so exercise the devil that torments him.
 So often what is true of mea one hy one is true of men assembled in nations It is not good for any country to lfvesand plan and act unto itself. It must, to,real- ize it's destiny, live in constant free and generous communion with it's neighbors. The world begins to realize that greater than any Yellow Peril~or Red Peril CT any other real or fxnctful menace to civilization is tho danger of seffsh se- clusion whereby g policy of immediate material gain spells ultimately tho loss-of a nations soul
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-08
A SURE-ENOUGH HERO

From the Springfield Republican.
 Admiration for an act of gallantry by an American soldier, one of our own Iwenty-sixth division must have been felt by all who read of the award last week of a congressional medal to the father of First Class Private Michael J.. Perkins of Company l. One Hundred and First regiment, for the soldier himself did not survive to wear the decoration which he so richly deserved and earned Few braver acts of an individual soldier are recorded than that mentioned in the ci- tation accompanying the award, which was as follows:
 Private, first class, Michael J. Perkins (deceasedD, Company l, One Hundred and First infantry: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepedity, above and beyond the call of duty. in action with the enemy at Belleau Bois, France, October 27,' 1918. Private Perkins voluntarily and alone crawled to German pill box machine gun emplacement, from which grenades were being thrown at his platoon. Await ing his opportunity. when the door was again opened and another grenade thrown, he threw a bomb inside. bursting the door open; and then drawing his trench knife. rushed into the emplace- ment. In a hand-to-hand struggle he killed or wounded several of the occu- pants and captured about 25 prisoners, at the same time silencing seven machine | guns.'
 Wounded, Private Perkins was being taken to a hospital when the ambulance was struck by shell and he was killed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-08
A WOULD-BE AMERICAN CHARGE

the Syrian coast to supply the demands of the cities of the Nile. This constant demand from foreign lands, together with the lack of any system of reforestatton. has practically denuded the mountains of the whole land
 Once more to cover the mountains and hills with pine and cedar and oak would be a simple task if carried on systemati- cally. The chief enemy today of re- forestation by nature is the herd Of goats, which every spring roam over the whole country and devour every green thing. The little seeding trees suffer especially.
 Tn 1860, because of the massacres, the European powers insisted that these mountains be made autonomous And became a living demonstration of what good government will produce and of what the people of the land are capable of becoming.
 "The steep mountain sides were ter raced to a height of 4OOO feet and planted to- olives, figs and vines. Taxes were low safety to persons and property se- cured. good roads built and kept in re- pair. The people constructed more com fortable homes and sent their sons to schools and college.
 ''The story of the achievements of the Lebanon during the 60 years oflautonomY would be thrilling narrative in itself.