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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1919-07-11
JOHNSON SHOULD EXPLAIN.

Senator johnson of California who is
touring New England in the fight
against the league of nations indsput
ably is a strong and eloquent speaker.
His declaration that he is all American
is not disputed. His ability to enthuse
crowds is seldom excelled. He can put
as much thrill into an audience as the
movies advertise. Therefore he is
man to be reckoncd with, to be listened
to and can be suppressed only by pow
erful combatants.
His greatest weakness seems to be
his slsillful power Of exaggeration. He
vigorously declares the treaty of peace
and the league of nations the "basest
thing which anyone ever attempted to
foist upon the American people, and
an instrument which throws the for
tunes of America to the rest of the
world, "for the rest of the world to
do with it as it sees ft.' Under the
spell of his oratory such statements
have tremendous force upon an excited
audience; but they must lose much of
their convincing force when recalled in
q thoughtful or meditative mood.
1t would seem fitting for the senator
to eliminate a part of his denunciation
and explain to his audience why the
league of nations is the basest thing,
etc He laws much stress upon the
statement that article ten of the cove
nant fixes national boundaries for all
time and suppresses national develop
r,ent At.the same time it repeats the
Monroe Doctrine, making it dead
letter. Howa If the league guarantees
territorial integrity, how can it endan-
ger the American countries?
In denouncing the territorial integrity
of The present nations does Senator
johnson endorse national aggression by
the stronger nations upon the weaker
as has been done throughout the paste
In refusal to allow America to accept
the obligations of the league does he
desire an America free to conquer by
might rather than right?
Before accepting the doctrines of Sen
ator johnson the thoughtful man needs
n full explanation of what the senator
would have in place of league TO en-
force international justice and stabil-
ize peace in the future.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1919-07-11
VERMONT FUEL PROBLEM.

1t would be interesting to know how
much Vermont money is sent out of the
state each year to pay for coal. 1t must
be very large sum and very little of
it finds its way back to the pockets of
residents of the state. In addition to
the amount paid for the coal is another
large sum paid for freight on the coal
from the mines to the consumers homes
or factories. This fuel bill is a great
drain on Vermont resources. If it could
be stopped or rather transferred to Yer
mont people and corporations it would
mean much more money in circulation
in the state.
There may be system of electric
heating developed that will supplant the
stove or furnace in Vermont homes. 1t
seems as though electricity might be
produced by water power at less cost
than coal can be taken from the mines
1t should be cheaper to transmit. the
electricity from the plant to the homes
anu .luClOllCH IMAM " maui tHN wal oSN
eral hundred miles over the railroads
There is large amount of idle water
power in the state that could be turned
to the manufacture of electricity, if il
is profitable. The development of this
power would mean the investment of &
large amount of capital in the state
and the consumption of electricity here
would call for payment of large sums
of money right here at home
1t will not be done at once, but it is
reasonable hope that in time Vermont
will furnish its own heat and power
and keep within the state large
amount of money that is now being sent
to other states.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1919-07-11
WARNER PETITION DENIED.
He Will Be Hanged Saturday I'm
less Governor Intervenes.

MONTPELIER, July l0.-Chief
Justice Watson and Justice Pow
ers of the supreme court, after a
hearing yesterday, denied the pc
tition of George Warner of An
dover for a new trial. Warner is
under sentence of death at the
state prison at Windsor. The
execution takes place this week,
according TO tho original sentence.
The only hope of the prisoner
now rests with Gov. Clement. If
he is reprieved for a time, his
sentence will be stayed. Otherwise
he must die in the chair before
midnight on Saturday. Now that
the court has spoken it appears
unlikely that Gov. Clement will
interfere.
Warner killed both of his wife's
parents after Il quarrel with his
wife. who was postmistress in ST.
mondsville in Andovcr, four years
ago. She told them her troubles
and he went to their home in the
early evening and shot them, hid
ing their bodies.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1919-07-11
BRATTLEBoRo PERSONAL.

Miss Emily Guild is here from Boston
to spend month s vacation az her homo
ON Linden street. Miss Guild has a posi-
ton in the auditors office in the state
house.
II. B. Chase and Paul A. Chase, left yes
terday for a business and pleasure
trip to Boston and Nantucket by auto
mobile.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ferris r. Vaughan and
Mrs. Augusta Vinton of this place and
Mrs. Simonds of Columbus, Ohio, left
Sunday for York Beach, Me-, where
they will spend two weeks
Clifford Rate came to spend the Holt.
day at his home on Beech street, re-
turned to Hartford Sunday night. Mr..
Rate has position in Hartford with
the Travellers Insurance Co.
Miss Louise Mann resumed work
Monday as bookkeeper in J. h. Manns
store after vacation of two weeks.
Mrs. Mann and daughters, Louise and
Mildred, visited in Wardsboro.
William j. Riley, son of Mrs. j. Riley
of Vernon street, member of the SD
engineers, arrived in this country Mon
uHy anu WIS scut u camp AhiS, N.
Y, where he will receive his discharge.
He had been overseas over year.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Metcalf have rc-
turned from an automobile trip to
the northern part of the state and Mrs.
Metcalf's nephews, Verne and Law
renee, returned with them for short
stay.
DIR. and Mrs. W. r. Noyes and son,
Leighton Moves, left yesterday for a
two weeks vacation at Good Ground, l..
l., near Sag Harbor Miss Emma Hough-
ton will be in DR., Noyes's Office during
his absence to make appointments
Martin Burke and family have re-
ceiyed a letter from Private James Sex
ton, who was brought up in the Burke
family, and who was in = German prison,
stating that he had been sent to Brest,
and it is presumed that he is now on his
way home.
Mrs, M. H. Sharples and daughter,
Dorothy, of Chatham, n. Y, were guests
Tuesday night of Rev. and Mrs. r. A.
Num-, and then spent a short time with
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Il. Higley in West Brat
tleboro. They were on their way to st.
Johpsbury to visit. Rev. Mr.. Sharples
formerly was pastor of the First Metho-
dist church in Brattleboro.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1919-07-11

Governor Clement has scored again
in selecting John NJ. Avery, legislative
reference librarian to be tax commits
sioner., Mr.. Avery is one of the able
young men of Vermont who is bound to
come to the front. The state has lost
very efficient and satisfactory legisla-
tive reference librarian but it has
gained good tax commissioner and a
host of friends will be pleased with
Mr.. Avery's promotion.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1919-07-11
BRATTLEBoRo PERSONAL.

Mrs. Lauren Pike of Bristol, Conn,
is visiting Mrs. Lillia M. Pike.
Mrs. Elizabeth Davenport went
Wednesday to Peru to remain the rest
of the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. p. Bedorc of Walnut
street visited relatives in Springfield,
Mass, over the weekend.
Raymond Brown is here from Hart
ford, Conn, for a 10-days' vacation at
his home on Bullock street.
Mrs. Rose Cooley is here from Boston
to spend the summer with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. f. w. Putnam.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Frank Wells and chill
dren of Oswego, N. Y, came Saturday
and went to the Wells summer homo in
Jamaica.
Miss Josephine Foster, teacher in
Springfield, Mass, is at her home on
Walnut street for the summer vaca-
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford of New Hamp-
shire visited their daughter, Miss Cliff
ford, at Mr.. Dalton 8 on Central street
Saturday.
Montpelier Sunday afternoon because
y.
w. A. Foster.
Mrs. +. w. Peasc, who had been visit
ing here with her sister Mrs. Wesley
Irish, has left for her homo in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa.
Mrs. Celcstia o. Mack of Wllston
street went yesterday to West Wards
boro to stay two weeks at the Green
Mountain Inn,
Mrs. Edward Bassett returned Monday
to her home in Springfield, Mass, aft
er visiting here with her sister, Mrs.
Robert Higley.
Mrs. Edith Vail Aver of Forestville,
after having been guest several days
Of her uncle, F. B. Pier.
Mrs. Fred Elmer and daughter, Miss
Wilhelmina Elmer, of Cleveland, Ohio,
are visiting Mr. and Mrs. George B.
White of Western avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Thomas and, four
children and Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Thomas
and son went Thursday night to Sunset
lake for a two weeks outing.
Private (frst class H. H. Morse
Bond came Saturday from Camp Dew
ems, Aver, Mass, where he is stationed,
returning to camp Monday afternoon.
Miss Sylvia Crosby went Monday to
Cobalt, Conn, to visit friends. She ac-
companied w. A. Wilcox, who is on a
business trip in Connecticut by automo-
bile.
Mrs. Ernest NJ. White was operated
upon Monday morning in the Brattle-
boro Memorial hospital for appendicitis.
Dr. g. r. Anderson performed the oper-
alton.
DR.. C. G.. Wheeler returned Saturday
night from Chicago, where he had been
taking Il three-weeks course in post
graduate work at the Chicago Osteo.
pathic college
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Glendenning of
New York city visited at Mrs. Skinner 8
and at Mr.. Bert Sargent s Sunday,
They came by automobile, returning
home Monday,
Mrs. Henry w. Hovey has received
Mrs. Clara Hovey Gilman, sailed from
Brest on the transport Prinz Frederick
Wilhelm July 6.
Mrs. II. d. Walker returned Sun.
day to her home at the Brooks House
from the Bpattlcboro Memorial hospital,
where she had been following an oper-
alton on her throat.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Raymond and
baby returned Monday to their home
in Bellows Falls, after visiting Mr.. and
Mrs Peter s. Chase several days, in
Gliding the Fourth,
| Rev. and Mrs. +. s. Hewitt, Miss
Veda Hewitt and Elroy Hewitt went
| Friday to Rutland, where they attend
ed a reunion of the Hewitt family.
They returned Monday.
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TEN PAGES
BRATTLEBORO.
FRIDAY, JULY II, 1919.
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BRATTLEBoRO PERSONAL.

John C. Pellet left Wednesday for
Montreal to attend the congress of the
North American Esperanto association.
He will be away about week.
Mrs. Carper ~ Moran returned Tues
day from weeks vacation at
Woodmont, Conn, where she was with
her daughter, Miss Florence Moran Miss
Moran has returned to her duties as as
sistant supervisor in the operating room
at the New Haven hospital.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1919-07-11

The New England Savold Tire COM
pany, conducting business for the pur-
pose of rebuilding automobile tires is
likely to establish factory in Burling.
ton. Factories are being built for this
work throughout New England states
and Burlington is the promised ground
for the Vermont factory. The company
is one organized with headquarters OH
BrOOkline avenue. Boston.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1919-07-11

The Burlington Free Press mentions
as possible candidates for governor in
1920, Lieutenant Governor Mason s.
Stone, Charles A. Plumley or Mortified,
George L. Durham of Brattleboro,
Fred II. Babbitt of Bellows Falls and
Curtis s. Emery of Newport. None of
them have announced their candidacy
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TO RENT.

TO RENT-Furnishe cottage at Blod
gets Landing, Lake Sunapee, n. II. Some
dates still open in July and August. +.
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but the public can be thinking them
over because candidates for governor
will soon be coming before the people.
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The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1919-04-21
half MILLION YlNkS
ARE TOURING EUROPE

MOTIF 1hl is the second OF a ssuts
Of stoue By staff Correspondent
1hcry oa how TIE American oldiefs
are spending ihe time ovrueas nou
that Che fighting b over
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-08

as well as publishers were being skinned, or partly skinned, by piracy on the other side. and so there was a red-hot agitation against it, and au- thors were giving readings from their works to raise money to help along the agitation. As Queen Victoria had lately brought out book, it struck Bill that her majesty ought to join the dance. Accordingly, Bill took pen in hand and dashed off missive in which he said:
 Your most gracious majesty will no doubt be surprised to hear from me after my long silence. One reason that have not written for sometime is that I had hoped to see you ere this, and not because I had grown cold" Then, after administering a few tablespoons ful of dignified taffy, he came to the point We would like to know whether we could not depend on you to take a part in these readings, rendering se- lections from you late work. I assure your most gracious majesty, that you would meet some of our best literary people while here, and no pains would be spared to make your visit pleas ant one, aside from the reading itself"
 After agreeing to advertise the read ing extensively and get out a good sized audience, he promised to provide passes and cut rates for Queen Victoria and suite, and went on to remark, con- siderately: "Of course you could do as you thought best about bringing suite
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-08
Going to Church in Japan.

William Dudley Pelley In the World Out
 look.
 It hardly seems a church, the poor lit-
 tie building I know in a Japanese town.
 It is just room with a speakers plat form and two rows of seats Yet it cost
 15OO yen. this little building. or S750 Amer
 ican money. And much of that money
 was contributed by poor Japanese people
 to whom 9 cents a day makes wages much to be desired.
 Slowly the new church began to fill
 These Japanese folks come in quietly, a
 bit timidly. It is a new experience for
 them. this going to church in their own 1 building. Hitherto they have been meet
 ing in private homes
 There is a tall old man in flowing
 robes, who cannot see very well and
 whose spectacles are skewed upon his nose. He was converted when he was a young man of G and in all the time since
 he has hoped and prayed for this day when the Christians of Gorozawa would have a regular church.
 There are young men from the nearby agricultural school in American dress and
 white collars a bit wilted and neckties which refuse to stay in place. There are middle-aged men who might be mer- chants, clerks, railroad men-some in flowing robes, some in foreign costume. And on every face is intent and purpose. On every face is the mark of the stu | dent.
 l It is a very serious thing to be a ! Christian out here, where ones relatives 1 and customers and townspeople have all | worshipped for so many generations ir 1 another kind of religion. There is nc | hitting the trair' and Following the crowd" out here Every man and woman ! is Christian because they have studied the step which they have taken. They | mean business.
 i The women come in and seat themselves l together on the opposite side of the | church from the men All of them are | in kimonos' with the pllow-like girdles
 at their backs. Some of them have chil- | dren-some have babies-slung between ] their shoulders. They kneel down and swing the funny little almond-eyed kids | off by loosening the 'kerchief which holds
 the child in place.
 The sermon runs on for an hour. But
 nobody falls asleep. Nobody goes out l The little room holds 120 people and every eve is rivited upon the speaker, every cal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-08

could wear a full dress suit of black with propriety, or Prince Albert coat with your hand thrust into the bosom of it. I once lectured on the subject of phren- ology in the southern portion of Utah, being at that time temporarily busted, but still hoping to tide over the dull times by delivering a lecture on the subject of Brains. and How to Detect Their Presence"
 q was not supplied with a phrenolog- icai bust at that time and as such thing is almost indispensable, I borrowed young man from Provost and induced him to act as bust for the evening" He did so with thrilling effect, taking the gross receipts of the lecture course from my coat pocket while I was illustrating the effect of alcoholic stimulants upon the raw brain of an adult in a state of health.
 You can remove spots of egg from your full dress suit with ammonia and water. applied by means of a common nail brush You do not ask for this recipe, but, judG ing from your style, I hope it may be of use to you"
 USEFUL LIFE.
 Everybody liked Bill. and everybody liked his make-beleve swelled head, with nothing growing on the outside but ali manner of frisky ideas growing inside it The most of them are still frisky, and quite a few seem timelier now than when he wrote them. He wondered, for in stance, whether flying machines would succeed in skimming the milky way, and reported it still unskum as we go 10 press" and asked. Will men ever be permitted to pierce the utmost details of the sky and rambe around among the stars with gum overcoat on?' and con cluded, Sometimes he will. and then again I ween not
 However, Bill lived to see great changes in this world. Toward the close of his career he wrote, Fewer people lick the editor now than did so in years gone by. Many people-in the last two years-have gone across the street to lick the editor and never returned Fewer people are robbing the editor. Only a short time ago a burglar succeeded in breaking Into the residence of a Dakota journalist and after a long, hard struggle the editor succeeded in robbing him."
 So we may consider Bills happy life. for it is grand to see the world getting better all the while. and we may con slider his a useful life, too, and share his admiration for Bill, who came up from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-08

been having some very hot weather here for the past week, but it is now cooler. Farmers are getting in their crops in good shape, but wheat is still low in price, and cranberries are sour ing on the vines. All of our canned red raspberries worked last week. and we had to can them over again. MT. Riel, who went into the rebellion busi- ness in Canada last winter, will be hanged in September if it doesn't rain. It will be his first appearance on the gallows"
 ALWAYS HATED RUM
 Hoping to hear from her gracious majesty "by return mail or prepaid cablegram," Bill declared himself her humble and obedient servant, ap- pended his signature, and-went out for drink? We'll maybe. T do not use alcohol in any form if I know it,' wrote Bill, but sometimes I am basely deceived by those who know my pe- culiar prejudice"
 I daresay Whitcomb Riley was one. He and Bill tore around together lot featuring, reading, etc., etc, especially. though I doubt if it damaged Bill Let Riley tell it. Bill is now cracking jokes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-08

shone like that brow itself. Some times they were remarkably wise jokes-for instance, that grip of his, The funny thing about classical music is that it's really so much better than it sounds" And even the most whims- ical notions he would work out so cleverly and patiently and with such a pretense of complete solemnity that they make hilarious good reading even now. Take his letter to Queen Vic toria:
 A LETTER TO QUEEN VICTORIA
 English publishers had been reprint ing American books. American pub fishers had been reprinting English books. On each side of the sea, authors
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-08
LEMON JUICE
 FOR FRECKLES
Girls! Make beauty lotion for
 a few cents-Try It!

Squeeze the JuIce or two Iemol.s into a bottle containing three ounces of orchard white, shake well, and you have a quarter pint of the best freckle and tan lotion, and com- plexion beautifier, at very, very small cost.
 Your grocer has the lemons and any drug store or toilet counter will supply three ounces of orchard white for few cents. Massage this sweetly fragrant lotion into the face, neck, arms and hands each day and see how freckles and blemishes disappear and how clear, soft and rosy-white the skin becomes. Yes! It is harmless md never irritates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-08

I generally leave my suite at home" and added, You would not need to make any special change as to cos tune for the occasion. If you decide to wear your everyday reigning clothes it will not excite comment on the part of our literati. We have some real good authors. We generally read selections from our own works, and can have a brass band play between the selections For myself, I prefer to have a brass band accompany me while I read. The audience also ap- proves this plan"
 nice, folksy letter was Bills, not entirely devoted to business either, for he ran on pleasantly: We have