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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-12-30
LABOR LEADERS
VOICE OPPOSITION
No Compulsory Features Allowable In
Regulating Labor Right TO
Organize Ignored

WASHINGTON, Dec Sc Suggestions
Of the presidents industrial conference
FOR the settlement OF labor unrest drew
ire yesterday from organized labor in the
first Of tie public discussions in,iteI hy
the committee in its report, published yes
tcriay.
Samuel Gomners, president OF the Amer
lean tedotdtmn II labor, said the failats
I'd the conference i reengnze defiuitel,
lh< organizations Of workers trade union.
as the basis Tor represeaiation va.
an unfortunate omission, while Franz
Morrison, secretary Of the federation, not
| ing the absence of reference 10 colIcctiv,
! bargaining or the necessity Tor orgauiza
| ton OF workers said anyone Who woule
overt CO postpone industrial conflicts
could not ignore cheese principles.
| Mr. etomnefs declared the commission
should reconsider the question el definit,
rccugnitioRfoi trade unions in order I,
wake possible the confidence and cooper
ton OF wage Gamers which ,an oc express
fed only through organizations al thci
own making
Any plan to establish On maintain
anything like fair relations between
Iaolkeg, and employer, must avoid com
| pulsoIy features. he docIarc,.
Any PROPOSAL Tor compulsory labor !
r"rugnant u American sovereignty an,
citizHnship.
/ SIR. Morrison said tho doclaratia
against government employees joining IT,
american federation OF labor. would IL
dicate that the commission las boon al
lectod by the temporary wave Of ant
wnionism
The statement, he added, offers n
hope to lovers of industrial peace VIII
see the necessity OF abolishing autoclac
ii industry and giving employees a dire
voice III then working conditions.
1t is no solution to empower the Pre-
ident and a cabinet official to select +,
personalities OF workers to adjust di'
putcs. The workers must have this pow,
themselves
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-12-30

cent in Iexcessaf 4 he rate Of interest
on the bonds ISSUED by, the banks.
Now these bonds, under the law, are
tax exempt Being so, they offer at
tractiye investments for men. who are
harassed by the burdens OF The income
and excess profits taxes; and so being,
the land banks of both kinds are able
TO borrow more, cheaply and lend more
cheaply than the private banks. 1t Is
this feature that some Of the members
OF congress would change The bill
introduced by Senator Reed Smoot of
[ tab would repeal the exemption
feature. The constitutionalitv OF The
tax-exempt feature has been brought Il
the supreme court from decision oil
the federal court of Kansas CITY. which
| upheld the law. Argument in this case
will be heafd next month. with Charlie,
Evans Hughes, former ATTORNEY Gen
eral George w Wickefsham and forme,
Secretary of the Treasury MeAdoo en-
| pioyed as counsel.
Representatives, MeFadden of Penn
sylvania, a banker himself. has a bill
compelling the joint stock land bank.
10 suspend operations at once, and /,
liquidate their affairs within five years
Senator Gilbert NJ Hitchcock, Of Ne
braska, Democrat. proposes 10 raise tn
limit on loans of the federal land bank
from $4,000 20 $25 900. The boar,
probably would not object to raisin,
the limit to $4,000
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-12-30
BRYAN'S NiN|ON
STARTS CAMPAIGN
Visiting New York and
New England to Revive :.
Bryan Leagues
| MARTIN III. GLYNN
FOR RUNNING MATE
Politicians Believe Bryan Will Espouse
the Cause of Radical Labor = Friend
Saws He Seeks Vindication Other
Political Speculation.

NEW YORK, Dee. 30 Harry ".
Walker, who managed the campaigns
Of William, Jennings Bryan for Presi-
dent, yesterday left for Il tour of New
York state and New England for the
announced purpose of interviewing old
members Of BRYAN leagues regarding
revising those organizations. Meetings
of the New York and New jersey
leagues viii be called soon. Mr.. Walk
er said. Martin II. Glvnn. former gov
clnor of New York. seems to be iav
ored as Bryan 5 running mate by old
members Of the New York league, ae-
cording to AIr. Walker Members Of
| the Democratic national committee say
that the al absorbing problem is the
| situation regarding capital and labor
/ They say that William Jennings Bry-
an intends to make this his chief weap
on in his fight for party control, aud
/ perhaps for the nomination Of himself.
| The platform Of both parties will be
| built. some political observers say,
with industrial and treaty planks
| prominent.
Mr.. Bryan, il i believed. viii work
for the adoption OF u radical platform.
| Mr.. MeAdoo might be considered 4 lib
Ctal, willing to cspousc the cause OF
labor and at tie same time deal justly
with capital Attorney General Palm
or and Herbert Hoover may be elassed
rs conservatives with the others, aside
from Nj Bryan, willing to 20 before
the country on 4 middle OF the road
platform.
some Of the Democratic. leaders are
connecting that Mr. Bryan because ~
) The Illness of the President and raGlca
, pressure OH the party. Is factor $
1 strong rs 20 be able either To disrupt
!. the party or shape it's platform anl
: Dictate lis candidate.
/ 4 friend Of Mr. Bryan startled hi
colleagues in congress the other da1
by SAYING that Mr. Bryan was seckinl
I, indication: that he was disappointe,
+. with the present administration be
/, cause OF his treatment while secretar1
81 state ana that he means 10 eapter
the nomination fer himself or ruin Oh
prospects 81 those urged tog the nomI
nation by President Wilson.
There arc reports that neither futmc
Secretary NcAdoo nor Attorney Gen
. elal Palmer meets Mr, Bryan : approx
= al. Political gossip has it THAT Nh
Bryan, if he suppressed his own amhi
5 tons, might support Herbert IIoove
l provided Mr.. Hoover met his view
as TO an Industrial platform. On tn
u other hand. Secretary Daniels Is iii
9 only real Dynamite among the prospcc
l. tive candidates
Mr., Bryan 5 position, i, Is expected
i will be outlined ut the Jackson In
dinner when all the leading presiden
q tai candidates viii haye an oppoItm
a lily 10 lay before the party their view
Y and the principles Tor which the
. stand
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-12-30
GREAT SUCCESS
Of FARM LOANS
Total Loans of S2S2,0O0,000
Made to $4,000 Farmers
In This Country
VERY FEW FAILURES
TO MEET PAYMENTS
Western Farmers Borrow Most - Some
Changes in the Law to Be Proposed
ton Repealed
ton Repealed.

WASHINGTON. Dee. 30.-Hcaring5
which are about to be given members
of the house and senate who propose to
make changes in the Federal Farm
Loan act, Will produce information re
garding the Federal Farm Loan board
Amendments to the law itself will be
discussed at length, but time will be
found 10 detail what the little known
board i, doing in the way Of giving ii
rancial assistance to agrcultursts the
country over.
Among other things. the people viii
be told that $4,000 farmers have Dor
rowcd S2S2 100000 in the two and one
half years in which the Farm Loan
act has been III operation The loans
have been made at n rate Of interest
of So per cent, the borrowers making
annual repayment at the rate Of $65
/ IN every 81 900 borrowed, thus paving
! he interest and sufficient part of
| the principal 10 cancel the entire loan
/ in 81 years. The people will be told
|
one fourth Of ono per cent OF the pay
mcnts have been delinquent for %
! days No such showing, in the opim-
i ion OF the board can be made BY any
other financial institution in the eoun-
Try. The average loan IS approximate
~ $4,000. which the board believes is
evidence that the svstrm is serving the
elias, il was designed to serve. namely
the small farmer.
Figures received from The IL fedora
land banks for The month of Oct ohel
show that Il per cent OF the loan.
made during that period went to land
less persons who were taking advan
tage Of an opportunity t. become farm
owners. The loans for the entire per
i0d TINT the banks have been in oper
;ttion have been larger in the West
. than in the East or the south Ii
round figures, he Springfield, Mass.
bank has loaned tl3.00o.o00; that n
Columbia, ). c., &l5,00a000; aud thai
at New Orleans, $4,000, 600 In III,
West, on The other hand. the st. Pau
bank has loaned 4ioO0000G; that a
Omaha, S3io00.000 aud that at Hous
ton, Tex. $30ooo,0o0
lhe law authorizes fhe federal In
corporation OF what are known a
joint stock banks or companies o
| which 81 are IN operation To dat
| these banks have loaned something lik
| S41,too0o0, eight or nine OF the bank
| carving the bulk of the business. The4
| hanks may l"an to individuals direct
| and whereas r'aYimum of $4,000 i
| placed on the loans made by the fed
/ orai land banks through the eo-opera
i Tive borrowing .t~sociat ions. no sue
\ limit is placed on tho indiy dual loan
/ the JOINT stock laRd banks, which ar
II privately MANAGED. may make. Bot
H systems arc lending money nj approx
II lmately 81 per cent interest, the lay
II providing that the interest charee
must be limited 10 per cent, and ncve
made at z rate higher than one pc
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-12-30
HIGHER WAGES, HIGHER COAL.
Operators Say Il Per Cent Increase is
All They VIII Stand

CHICAGO, Dee. so-eoaI operators
from Illinois, Indiana. Ohio and West
cru Pennsylvania, at a conference YES
tcrday, declared that they would as
sumo no increase in miners wages
above the II per cent guaranteed III
the strike settlement In discu> ing
their attitude toward the commission
named by President Wilson to inve. =
gate the coal situation, the operate
asserted that il the commission recon
mcud"d q wage increase above III per
cent it would have 20 shoulder the re-
.sponshility of increased prices to tho
consumer.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-12-30
DON'T BE BALD
How To Make Hair Grow Strong
Thick and Lustrous.

If Your hair is thinning out, don t
wait another day, but go to w. +. Root
and get n bottle of Partisan sage, the
truly efficient hair grower.
Don Z say: '1t's the same old story;
I've heard it BEFORE but try bot
tie At their risk They guarantee IA
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stimulate now growth. Danish all
dandrufy and almost instantly stop
scalp Itch. or money back.
Partisan sage contains just the Gle
mentS needed to properly invigorate
the hair roots. It's prime favorite
with discriminating ladies because it
makes tho hair 50 soft and lustrous,
and appear twice as abundant.
Partisan sage is inexpensive and cas-
lily ohtainable o. al drug storcs.--Adv
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-12-30
LONG. HAS NOT APPEALED.
Washington County Murder Case Will
Not Go to Supreme Court.

MONTPELIER, Dec. 30.-The supreme
court calender to be used at the JanuaIy
term has been issued by the county clerk
This does not include the murder case al
George \. Long SO that it viii be impos-
siblc for the ease to go to the supreme court
on EXCEPTIONS the time for filing these
having expired This docs not prevent
however the ease going To the Suprcmt
court on newly discovered evidence il such
be the case. Long is serving time in
the states prison having boon found guilty
of manslaughter by killing Mrs Lucinda
c. Broadweli in Barre May 3 of this year
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-12-30
Quick Relief For
All RheumaticS
IF So Crippled You Can't Use Arms or
Legs, Let Rheuma Help You.

Ii want relief from agonzme rheu-
matte pain (no matter what form III two
days swift. gratifying relief--take a small
dose Of Rhcuma once a day.
Ii YOU want TO dissolve the uric acid
poison in your body and drive il out
through the natural channels so that you
will be free from rheumatism begin the
Rheuma treatment now. Its inexpensive
and positively harmless
rheumatism Is powerful disease
strongly entrenched III joints and muscles
In order to conquer It powerful enemy
must be sent against it. Rheulna is the
enemy OF rheumatism and must quickly
give joyful relief or money refunded. Viii
fred 4. Root and good druggists every
where recommend it.-Adv
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-12-30

\ secret is no longer one il YOU tell it
To one person, but women think it l. a
secret until its published in the ncwspa-
pers.
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has stood now for many years with
one foot in Regents Park and the
other on the Continent, encourages
them.
1t was he who before the war pre-
sided over the delivery of the "Pohg-
nae" prize, which distinguished itself
principally by browning Mr.. DE La
Mares The Return and Mr.. Hodg-
son s Bull and then suddenly gave up
the ghost. Many years ago the "Acad-
envy was famous for its literary
prizes, and crowned Conrad's Az
n,ayer Cor was it The Nigger?) and
Stephen Phillips's MdrpessG and
something, 1 think, by W. B. Yeats.
Now there is the announcement OF the
Hawthornden Prize to be given to a
work of imagination in prose or
poetry, and the writer of the same
must be under forty years Of age. The
iudges are Lawrence BinyOn, 7. c.
Squire and Mr.. eddie" Marsh.
At the same time Messrs. Melrose
are offering prizes for works of fiction,
and Collins, the publishers, who have
sprung so quickly to the front
lately, have also a novel competition.
Land and Water has been having
short story competition, and this has
been won by Miss Ethel Mayne.
The Hawthornden Prize is thing
by itself and the names Of the judges
guarantee its high standards. 1t will
be given, imagine, with the definite
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-10
BY MORRIS JAsTRow, Jr.

DR. MAX RAISIN'S A History Of
~ the Jews in Modern Times is not
a book for light summer reading. Every
thing about it is heavy from the weight Of
the binding and paper to the cumbersome
ness of the style, teeming with unidiomatic
expressions and slipshod sentences. There
ought to be fine imposed on a publisher
who brings out book so awkward to
handle as this one, which wears one out
physically in the attempt to hold it in
ones hands for any length of time, or the
publisher ought to provide a reading desk
with every copy. The only thing about
the book which is not heavy is the Illus
trations, which are frequently so lightly
printed as to be almost worthless, and
such of these cheap woodcuts which are
not lightly printed are smeared, which is
even worse.
The book by virtue of its contents de-
served a better dress, though the contents
also are subject to serious criticism.
Whether this is the first attempt Of the
author or not, he clearly has not ac-
uuired the art of book making, as little
as his publisher has that Of book manu-
facture. In the first place he has added
to his book both a preface and an in
PRODUCTION, which to say tie least is un-
usual. There is nothing in the introduc-
ton of three pages which might not have
been said in the preface of four pages.
Secondly, the arrangement Of the material
is most awkward. The author covers, as
the title indicates, the modern period Of
the history of the Jews from the close
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especially in the misspelling Of names
(even when attached to portraits), as, for
example, in the case of Lassalle with
the omission of the e, which is unpardon-
able), Hirz for Herr, Emanuel Kant for
Emmanuel Kant, Joselowiez in the text as
against Joscelowicz In the index, omis-
sion of the surname Herman IN the name
of the late Chief Rabbi Of England, Ed
ward Everett Hale indexed as mentioned
on page 709, whereas the book ends with
page 437, and much more Of the Ike.
Having said all this, it is only proper to
commend the industry Of tie author N
collecting his material, which must have
involved much labor. DR.. Raisin is not
a historian, but he knows at least how to
collect the tools for the historian, who
may some day arise to give Us a real
history Of the Jews in modern times, from
the period at which the late Heinrich
Graetz, who Was a historian, broke of
his monumental history, and Of which an
abridgment in five volumes with an e1-
cellent index volume was published some
fifteen years ago by the American Jewish
Publication Society. The vast material
brought together by DR.. Raisin is sufi-
Gent to show how interesting and IN
structive that history VIII be when it
comes to be written. -
Scattered as the Jews are over the en-
tire globe, there Is scarcely country
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view that it is for the encouragement
of work that would be otherwise not
very generally known. But does such
an award help toward real publicityf
Did De la Mare 8 gaining the Polig-
nae prize sell fifty extra copies OF The
Ptturn? / very much doubt it. l have
not the slightest idea as to the re-
cipient this year (the first award is
to be made at the end of this week.,
but it is amusing to speculate on the
result. Such books as Freeman
Memories of Childhood, Romer VIII
sons Martin Schuler, Sheila Kaye
Smiths Little England, Brett
Young s Marching on TGngG (does it
come within the twelve months?) all
rise to the mind. These authors show
promise as well as achievement and
are none Of them as well known as
they ought to be. To tell the simple
truth there has not been, think, one
single work of outstanding genius
published in English during the last
twelve months. And why should there
be? Works of outstanding genius are
rare and rightly so.
The novel competitions are another
affair; they are frankly commercial,
instituted with the hope Of discover
ing some new chest sellers" There
is, in fact, desperate looking around
just now, both on the part Of the pub
Usher and the critic, for some new
novelist of mark. With the exception
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A New Prize for the BeSt-CrOWn Move

of Stephen Mekenna there has been
no new arrival of Importance since
d. H. Lawrence appearance. Miss
Delafeld, Miss Dune, Miss Wilson
have still to prove that they are
"stayers" and authors of more than
one book, and there has been posi-
lively no man at all. Willfthese COM
petitions discover somebody ] very
much doubt it. The only novelist Of
real merit who has ever, in, my ex-
perience, won novel competition was
Miss Rose Macaulay, who once en-
trapped MeSsrs. Holder & Stoughton
into giving her the prize. / say ZEN
trapped" because the novel with
which she won the award was as little
like the customary prize novel as Miss
Ethel Dell's stories are like Joseph
Conrad s. I remember what must
have been, I think, the first of these
contests some ten years ago, when
Frank Swinnerton and / both sent IN
stories to Mr.. Melrose's first novel
competition. t'e
The prize was secured, 1 remember,
by a daughter of Jacob Hood, the
artist. After that success she, seemed
to fade away and has not, l think,
written anything for number OF
years.
Personally 1 should like to start
competition for novelists. l would give
a prize of two thousand pounds Tor
$1O,OOO) to the winner, but the condi-
ton would be attached that all the un-
successful competitors should pledge
themselves never to publish novel
again. As it is, these competitions en-
courage many people to try who
would never otherwise have thought
of it-once begun they find it the
easiest thing IN the world!
So it is-fatally easy-to write a
bad one. HUGH WALPoLE.
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THE main feature of literature in

THE main feature of literature in
Il London at the moment is that
no one is talking about books at all.
There has been talk about Ascot,
about whether Lloyd George is going
to the right or to the left, about Mile.
Lenglen, the marvellous French ten
mis- player, and great deal OF talk
about getting away, to Scotland, to
Switzerland, to Italy, to Timbuctoo-
to anywhere without income tax, Boil
shevists and Robert Smillie-but
about books no word!
No one, for instance, seems in the
least excited about Ibanez's The -Four
Horsemen, over which you in America
have waxed so enthusiastic; the last
Jazz poem from the Hogarth Press
has raised neither smile nor curse;
no one is debating as to whether Mr..
George or Mr.. Canaan is the more
iconoclastic no one is wondering how
much longer Compton Mackenzie in
tends to stay in Capri. The Undying
Fire has lit no fame in the hearts of
the London public. Good books con-
tinue to appear. books like Mr.. Her
bert's admirable first novel, The Sc
cret Battle, or Richard Aldington's
new poems or Robert Lynd's essays
there is no general interest in any Of
them. / prophesy that from now until
the middle of September books in
London will be as dead as mutton.
1t is natural perhaps that this quiet
pause should seem the right occasion
for the bursting forth of the an
nouncements Of a number of literary
competitions and prizes. In France
this is an old and well established Gus
tom, hallowed by age and the French
Academy. Here in this modest and
Unconditional country we fight shy of
such displays; only Mr.. Gosse, who
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"a History of the Jews in Modern Times"

which is not represented in the authors
work, but what he gives Us is all in such
hopeless confusion that we 10 not envy
the task Of the one who viii make the
attempt to pick out the significant data
from the mass of unimportant details,
descending at times to mere biographical
gossip. As final illustration Of how little
of real history is to be found in this vol
ume, we may instance the almost entire
omission Of statistics Of Jewish popula-
ton and immigration; and as final j.
lustration of the lack of proportion In
the presentation of the material, the curl
Gus circumstance that one-fourth Of the
work is devoted to "Zionism,n which
seems to be the authors particular hobby,
by the side of Yiddish and neo-Hebraic
literature. The brief photography Of less
than two pages attached to the book is
a poor piece Of work, in contrast to the
index, which is fairly satisfactory.
A HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN MODERN
TIMES. BY MAX RAIsN. New York:
Hebrew Publishing Company.
ITO date Doubleday, Page & Co. have
Il sold 1,324,943 copies of Tarking-
ton books. Of Psnrod, 234, 531 copies
have been sold. The advance sale Of
Ramsay MIholGnd has been much
larger than that of PeRrod.