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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-02
LIBRARIAN OFFICERS.
Miss Norton of Proctor Heads State
Organization.

M MONTPELIER, July 2. - The Yer
mont Library association in session
here has elected the following officers:
President, Miss Mary X. Norton of
Proctor; vice president, Miss Anna
Mower of Morrisville; secretary-treas-
urer, Miss Elizabeth Hill of Lyndon
vile; district vice presidents, Orange,
Essex and Caledonia counties, Miss
Grace Knight of Charleston; Franklin,
Lamoille and Grand Isle, Rev f. w.
Hazen of Johnson; Rutland, and Ben.
nington, Mrs. H.. Moses of, Bennington;
Addison and ChittendenS Miss Laura
Collamer of Shelburne, Washington and
Orange, Miss Daser Moulton of Ran
dolph; Windsor and Windham, Miss
Elizabeth Mccarthy of Springfield.
Following the afternoon session, ut
which Miss Margery Quigley of the
New York state library school, spoke
a community library tea was served
The hostesses included Miss Fannie B.
Fletcher of Proetorsville, Miss Alice
Eaton of Woodstock, and Miss Mary r
Bates of Burlington.
Today the institute began and there
will be twodays' session on library
institute work.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-02
wv. I'll. JEFFREY
TELLS OF HIS WORK
Has Expended S2,O7S.S3 of Graham
Fund for Relief of Defective Chill
dren in Vermont.

MONTPELIER, July Wv H. JEFF
frey, state probation officer, recently
sent to the donors of the Graham fund
for defective children a statement show
ing the way in which each dollar of the
money, was spent. One hundred per
cent of it went to the care of the chill
dren and nothing to supervision; there
fore, as result, he has been receiving
several replies relative to the letter and
statement sent to the donors. In sew
eraI there have beeneehecks with state
ment that the money gave the donors
more satisfaction than any work they
ever attempted along this line.
During the year ending June ), 3d.
530.23 was received from the fund
which Governor Graham solicited, while
III office, to be used for defective de-
pendent children. There has been $2,07S-
50 expended, leaving on June ), $451. 40
on hand. There has been one death. a
South Newfane child, which the physi-
clans stated did not have chance when
the department took it to give it expert
medical treatmen.
Another st. Johnsbury boy has been
pronounced incurable of tuberculosis.
| This boy is in hospital Two others
were sent to their homes after they had
received expert attendance by New York
specialists.
There are 60 eases upon which pay
ments have been made. There are sew
eral now in hospitals for whose care
bills have not been presented. making
fully 20 eases treated. With the exeep-
tion of the four noted above, all have
received substantial aid and are in an
improved condition. The name of each
| child treated, the cause of its trouble
| its ailment, the status of recovery and
! other data, as well as the expense in
| each instance, have been sent to the
persons who donated to the Graham
fund. The sums paid vary from 500
! to 1920. S5.
| modica Pkg
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-02

Ramp Kill Kare, a boys camp and
summer school on St Adams Point.
opened Tuesday. About 40 boys have ar
rived and the indications are that the
attendance viii be much larger than for
the last two seasons.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-02

Fifty Boy Scouts from Akron. O.,
camped on the Battery park at Burling-
ton Tuesday and cooked their noon day
meal The boys are on l7-day trip
through the eastern section of the United
States. They left Akron last "Wednesday
The boys are travelling in Good Year mo.
tor trucks. In the afternoon the party
left for st. Johnsbury The Scouts will
Visit New Hampshire, Maine. Connecticut
and Pennsylvania before their return
home
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-02

Mrs. Charles j. Smith of Lexington,
is the first woman to be honored with
the presidency of the University of
Kentucky Alumni association.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-02

Miss Flora Coleman, daughter of Ches-
ter Coleman Of Saxtons River, was mar
ried at the Forristall home in that place
Monday to DR.. ID. T. Mocus of Nashua.
\. II. Miss Coleman is a graduate of
the Massachusetts Homeopathic hospital
and Is a registered nurse in Boston. The
groom graduated from Boston university
medical school in 1916 and since then has
practiced IN Nashua where they will make
their home
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-02

Dates have been announced at Bellows
Falls for Community Chautauqua. The
entertainments this year viii extend from
August % to August q, inclusive, and
will be given at the Fairgrounds.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-02

Fifteen applicants who desire to prac-
tee dentistry in Vermont tool, examina-
tons al Montpelier before the board Of
dental examiners Monday.
The sun., 1919-10-16
why the Railroads Must BE Saved

What Congress must do to save the
railroads is not a question merely of
the reparation legally and morally
due for the damage they have suffered
while in the Governments hands. 1t
is not a question merely of making
good on the Governments pledge and
contract to return the roads to their
owners in as good condition, physical
and financial, as when they were
taken over. 1t is not, question
merely of justice to the owners and
of fulflment of obligations by the
Government.
The practical question staring the
Government in the face, the crucial
question staring the American people
in the face, is whether the railroads
are going back to their owners able
to stand up on their feet and do their
necessary work or are going back
doomed to collapse. 1t is whether
they are going back fit to give service
to the public or are going back fit only
to head for the scrap heap. 1t is
whether they are going back with a
chance of growing and improving to
keep up with the expanding needs of
the country or are going back with a
certainty of busting up financially,
physically and every way.
The question is whether the United
States Government after two years of
holding and operating the roads is
going to return them looking and per-
forming like the American railway
system at its best or is going to re-
turn them in the condition Of a Rus
sian manor no longer fit for habita-
ton or for other use after being In
vaded, pillaged and wrecked by a
Bolshevist mob.
If the United States Government
were willing to default on it's own
pledges and contracts to the railroads
it could not do so without defaulting
on It's highest obligations to the Amer
lean people, who must have n success
full railway service. If the United
States Government were willing to
abandon the American railways to the
fate of bankrupt treasures, caving
roadbeds and rustlng junk 1t could
not do so without abandoning Ameri-
can industry and business to conse-
quences as tragic.
The American railway system first
must be saved and then rebuilt into
something even better than it ever
was, because without such an Ameri-
can railway system the nation itself
must decay.
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ally, miscalled yacht, must be de-
signed and built. Some one must give
up a whole season 10 tuning It up.
All sorts Of powers, including that of
the national Government, which has
to police the course, must be con-
voked to perfect the complicated ma
chinery of the races.
When the thing is finished no i'm
portant contribution has been made
to yachting science. The cup de-
fender remains q white elephant on
the hands Of its owners till It Is
eventually turned into an unsatisfac
tory schooner. But meanwhile Sir
THOMAS Upton and his commodious
steamer the Erin will be here, and we
may welcome him as he should be wa.-
coined. Something is thus achieved.
The port of New York will not be
entirely unblessed, however, for the
New York Yacht Club is likely to con-
duct the races Off Newport. This will
prevent the familiar overcrowding Of
the waters surrounding the course.
while it will provide an excellent field
for the exercise of the sailor mems
talents. Open water off Block Island
can be reached as easily as that off
Sandy Hook and tricks of wind and
tide are less numerous there.
The sun., 1919-10-16
The Americas Cup.

Those who cannot penetrate the
sacred halls of the New York Yacht
Club can only imagine vaguely the
outburst of solemn silence with which
the latest challenge Of Sir THOMAS
LIPToN to race for the Americas Cup
was received. The club has had A
long and honorable struggle to keep
that trophy in its hands. 1t has had
no serious difficulty in defeating most
of the challengers, but the victories
have cost either the club as a whole
or certain members as individuals
much time, much money and much
whistling for wind.
Sir THOMAS LIPToN has set his
heart on "lifting" the cup, as he ex-
presses it, Despite the sporting spirit
of the New York Yacht Club, It IS
probable that the organization would
be glad TO see the ancient vase repos-
ing comfortably in the distinguished
Knights locker provided it could hon
orably be got there without the de-
feat Of an American defender.
That is the trouble. The cup must
be defended. Another gigantic anon
The sun., 1919-10-16

movement. He Is Of Armenian ex-
traction, and his declaration that Ar
menians and other Christians Will be
protected 1t was imagined would carry
with It a conviction that such a
promise from the Young Turks them
selves would never have.
MUsTAPHA KEMAL appeared soon
after the armistice in Asia Minor pro-
claiming his crusade for the revival
of Turkey and promising protection
to all who would join with him. He
finally set up a government Of his
own at Erzerum. His power spread
over Asia Minor until he had gained
the support Of Konieh and Brussa, in
Asiatic Turkey, and Adrianople in
Europe. These towns are distinctly
Turkish; they have all been capitals
of the Sultans and they have been the
chief supporters of the Qualification
plans of the Young Turks and have
been the strongholds of the party.
The present nationalism thus has all
the earmarks of the "nationalism"
proclaimed by the Young Turks at
the time of their revolution in 1908.
1t promised then q new Ottoman ma
ton in which all the various races
and peoples were to have an equal
right and share. The governing
clique, which took charge of the coun-
try's affairs, did not keep this promise
long enough for the remote corners
of the empire to celebrate the new
era of liberty, equality and Justice.
That the non-Turkish races should
place any reliance in the present
promises of MUsTAPHA RENAL would
be asking too much Of long suffering
and often deceived people.
The Government, though, which the
Nationalist party has established. bids
fair to exceed in power the Govern
ment at Constantinople. The latter,
formed after the war and avowedly
opposed to the Young Turks, has from
the first been weak and practically
imperative. The encroachment upon
its authority by the Nationalist party
1t Is believed can but eventually re-
suit in its overthrow. The outcome
of this would be the restoration of
the Young Turk in power if not in
name at Constantlnople.
The Nationalist movement had its
inception In the belief that Europe
could not so far adjust Its own differ
ences as to force the long threatened
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the Turkish EN-
pire. The grace of ALLAH saved Con-
stantinople to the old Turk and it is
apparently going to save 1t to the
Young Turk.
The sun., 1919-10-16
WOMEN INVITED TO
TAMMANY LUNCHEON
Luce and Untermyer to Be
Hosts to 900 on Saturday.

According to an announcement made
last night, Justice Robert l.. Luce and
Irwin Untermyer. Tammany candidates
for the Supreme Court, will give a
luncheon to 1000 women workers at the
Hotel Aston on Saturday afternoon.
Among them will be election district
workers in Manhattan and The Bronx.
The Democratic county and borough
candidates of both boroughs also will be
invited. The Womens Democratic
League has charge of the arrangements.
Gov Smith has promised to speak on
1.-THE Defeat of the Welfare Bills at
Albany"
Mrs Untermyer is chairman and Miss
Sarah McPike is vice-chairman of a
c-mpittee of $50 women who have or
sanized to work for the election of Mr..
Untermyer Miss McPille votes in West
chester county.
Major Michael A. Kelly ("Dynamite
MikeD. who is running for the Presi-
dency of the Board of Aldermen as the
candidate of the Liberty Party and on
an anti-League Of Nations platform, has
been indorsed by the Peoples Indepen-
dence League in Kings county.
This organization, which has a bulls
head for its emblem, is headed by Ed
mund oConnor, register OF records. for
merly one of the lieutenants of William
Randolph Hearst in that county Major
Kelly will speak under auspices of the
organization in Palm Garden, Atlantic
avenue on Monday night
The sun., 1919-10-16
A STORY OF PATTI.
The Thrifty Dutchmen, the Starless
Fourth Act and the Lawsuits.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN--sr: The
death Of Adelina Patti recalls the fol-
lowing amusing incident which occurred
in the Dutch town Of Maestricht in 1859 !:
AS the prima donna at that period was
at the height of her career the director
of the local theatre where she was to APP
pear in Lucia di Lammermoor" for one
night only was compelled to pay her a
considerable sum, and to reimburse him
self he tripled the regular charge of ad-
mission.
-Four citizens of Maestricht were very
fond of opera and consequently anxious
to hear the great singer; but as their
means were limited they bought one
ticket of admission and drew lots as to
who should see the first, second, third
and fourth acts respectively.
Everything was carried out success
fully-up to the final act. As soon as
one act was over the possessor Of the
ticket hurried across the street to the
Cafe Venetien and handed the card to
another friend. The last recipient was a
hat manufacturer by the name of Groom
eyer and when he received the ticket he
entered the theatre, took his seat and
waited impatiently for the curtain to
go up.
But who can describe his disappoint-
ment when the tenor began with the
lines: Lucia is dead" sc. Grooneyer,
not being acquainted with the opera, was
in hopes that Lucia might revive and
appear some time during the act He
remained to the conclusion of the per-
Torrance, and when he realized that he
had neither seen nor heard Patti he
rushed across the street, where his COM
panions greeted him with malicious
smiles. He lost his temper, called them
cheats and "swindlers," and his de-
nunciations became SO noisy and his ac-
tons so violent that the landlord of the
Cafe Venetien was compelled to have
him elected from the place.
But matters did not end here. In the
first place the three fortunate holders Of
tickets instituted legal proceedings
against Grooneyer for defamation OF
character. This suit was compromised
by his payment to them of a consider
| able sum Of money and an apology on
his part. He next brought an action
| against his three former friends for the
return of the money paid by him for the
ticket of admission. This case was dis
missed in court. and on appealing 1t he
lost again.
The publicity given to the latter suit
caused the director of the theatre at
Maestricht to institute proceedings
against the four Patti enthusiasts. He
demanded the full payment for four ad-
missions. as the tickets were marked
not transferable" The courts sustained
his claim, and on the appeal he won
again. The experiment therefore proved
to be an expensive one for the four
SPECTATORS; most expensive of course to
the choleric hat manufacturer.
ALBERT r. FREY.
New YORK. October To-
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Public Needs and the Hazards Taken
by the Men Who supply Them.

Almost every great work Of con-
struction causes the loss of human
lives, The building of Catskill
water system or a Panama Canal will
bring death by accident to hundred
or a thousand men. 1t Is In fact
known at the very beginning Of these
improvements that unless experience
has taught falsely scores Of lives will
be lost in the prosecution Of the work;
and the contractors give bonds for
the satisfaction of a carefully estl-
mated number of claims. These huge
pieces Of construction, however, are
for the good of the millions Of a city
or the billions of the earth. No par
ticular individual is doomed. Each Of
the thousands of workmen has his
chance to survive and takes his chance
of dying. If list of names of the
hundred men who were to perish in
the course of the Catskill work could
have been published before the city
signed the contracts what would the
general sentiment have been about
going ahead? Yet the contractors,
Judging by the past, knew that in
spite of all their precautions hun
bred workmen would be killed.
These of course are but large exam
pies Of the risks that are run daily
in almost every course Of life, for
every living creature is in peril from
birth to death. What the public mind
revolts against is unnecessary risk
assumed for the achievement of some
thing which does not compensate for
the hazard. In this connection, we
fancy, there are many persons who
not only read with shudder this
week of the killing of a pilot in the
aerial mail service which has been
operated for year between New
York and Washington but who con-
slider 1t an unnecessary sacrifice. 1t
was the first death on that line, but
not the first tragedy in postal avia-
ton. The citizen who may applaud
the overseas flight of a READ or an
ALcoCK, or even approve the scientific
aims Of the cross-country race now In
progress, may still question whether
it is sensible. in the present imperfect
condition of aircraft, to risk every day
TIE lives Of men on the errand OF
carrying a comparatively small guam
THY of mail between cities which are
perfectly linked by express trains.
The railroads go fast enough to take
mail from New York to Washington
in five hours; the airplanes in two
and a half hours.
If the Post Office Department were
not so miserably run that its general
service is a national joke this loss of
an individual life might not stand out
so strongly. But when 90 per cent. of
the postal business Is victim to the
sloth of politics the / per cent. of
swiftness becomes extraordinarily
prominent; and there are many who
would prefer to have the system all
joke than to have 1t part joke and
part tragedy.
The sun., 1919-10-16
MIR. WILSON'S ILLNESS.
Regrettable as It Is, the Nations Wei
fare Must Not Be Neglected.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir. All
true Americans must hope and pray for
the recovery of the President from his
illness. but the supreme concern of
Americans is the safety and integrity of
their country. The health of one man,
even the President, cannot outweigh the
welfare of the nation. Scores of thou
sands of our best and bravest men died
for their country in the war. Millions
Of Americans gave their dearest be-
loved to the chance OF death that the
nation might live.
Now the President is sick and we all
hope for his recovery. but it must not be
conditioned upon any sacrifice of Ameri-
can independence, sovereignty or honor.
Anything that savors of using the present
condition of his health or illness as a
threat to compel unwise action in the
Senate must be resented and resisted.
His illness has resulted from the strenu-
Gus insistence upon his own plans, with
out modification.
His partisans and attendants are say
ing that any deep disappointment"
may cause relapse" Any such unhappy
event would be keenly regretted through
out the country. but those who believe
his cherished scheme is unwise,. who are
working as faithful, patriotic Americans
to correct the errors in It and make 1t
thing of good instead of a thing of
injury for the nation. must not be halted
nor turned aside from their necessary
work by the fear of causing "disappoint-
ment," even to the President in his sick
room America first
EUGENE THwING.
NEW YORK, October Is
The sun., 1919-10-16
Mr.. BurIeson Is Amusing.

The Postmaster-General Mr.. BURLE-
SON, has made a public statement
about his own work. He says of his
postal administration that it has been
remarkable in development, wonder
full in organization and that its
standard of efficiency borders on the
miraculous"
This announcement, we observe, was
made orally and it was transmitted to
the country from the place Of utter
ance by telegraph. Mr.. BURLEsoN
may have written the same thing long
ago and entrusted it to the mails; and
that would account for the fact that
it is only now the country has heard
from him on the subject. We OBJ
serve that he did not speak for tele-
graphic transmittal until the wires
had been returned from his hands to
private ownership.
We are glad that Mr.. BURLEsoN
says what he does. These are gener-
ally glum times, and the Postmaster
General gives to every business man
whose letters have been delayed or
lost, to every woman whose parcels
have disappeared and to every soldier
who never got his mail from home
in brief, the entire adult llterate popu-
lation-the material for laugh. Not
a laugh unalloyed by bitterness, per-
haps, but still laugh.
The sun., 1919-10-16
NATIVE BORN PARROTS.
New Industry Which the War De.
veloped In California.

John z. Ho00 IN Popular Mechanics.
Before the war the United States i'm
ported parrots and other birds of the
family to the value of approximately
$1,000, 600 each year. Most of the cock
atoos came from Australia. while par
rots and parrakeets were brought by
thousands from Africa. Mexico, South
and Central America, and also from the
isle of Pines, near Cuba. A few We're
shipped from Borneo and Java. Natu-
rally the war shortage of shipping ter
minated these shipments and old birds
with vocabularies of from rs to 100
words became almost priceless. Few
were to be had at any price.
About the time the scarcity of feath-
cred takers reached it's height some
one recalled that parrots in captivity
had been known to lay an coca sional egg.
The dealers began to open their eyes.
Then they proceeded to develop a brand
new American industry which bids fair
to do away with the importation of birds
Of the parrot family by raising them
in captivity like ostriches or barnyard
stock
Tho first attempts to produce a do
Htestic supply OF parrots and cockatoOS
were made with incubators. This was
unsuccessful The eggs Matched, but the
baby birds persisted for lack of mothers
care in feeding them, all young birds of
the parrot family being fed from the
parent birds crop, like doves or pigeons.
Efforts were made TO feed the incubator
Matched birds by hand, but to raise a
single parrot by this method almost re-
quiyed the services of a special nurse.
Sitting parrots and cockatoos were then
tried. and with greater success. The
nesting room is virtually an artificial
jungle in which the temperature is kept
at ITO degrees Fahrenheit. Humidity is
maintained by numerous tiny spray
pipes that discharge onto the sand floor
upon which the birds make their nests.
The sun., 1919-10-16
WENDELL ART SALE BEGINS.
Proceeds to Beneht Harvard
VIII Continue Ten Days.

The sale OF the literary and artistic
collections of the late Evert Jansen
Wendell. collections which are in many
ways extraordinary, began yesterday at
the American Art Association. The sale
is to benefit Harvard College, which al
ready has selected for its permanent H.
brary several thousand items from Mr.
Wendelrs collection, which, however, is
so extensive that more than 5000 re-
main. Ten days will be required for the
sale, which will continue until Octo-
Der %.
The collections make an equal appeal
to connOisseurs of the drama, history,
sports and literature At yesterdays
sales the principal buyers were dealers.
Among these George ID. Smith gave
$3.50 for No. 72. an autograph letter
OF ]. Wilkes Booth; $31 for No. Ala.
Cibbers apology" In the first edition;
$50 for No, 425, group of Cibber
Tracts; 500 for a collection Of dra-
matte tracts. Nos. 622-7O3. +. W. Nor
rls paid $40 for No. 467, colored char
acter plates; Brick Row Book Shop gave
S6J for No. 5IS. Doddridgc's Letters;
H. Carroll paid $50 for No. us, Dun
laps History of the American Theal ra';
J, F. Drake gave 500 for No. 79l. Ear
quhar's "Inconstant." and Mr.. Barlow
paid S25 for No. 792, Elizabeth Far
ren's "Memoirs."
The total sales for yesterdays threa
sessions was 1859, ,