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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-21
The Secret Is No Secret.
I.eslies Weeklv.)

What is the secret of the continued
high cost of living?. The secret is no
secret
Railroad wages are increased by sew
eral millions, and up go passenger and
freight rates.
Wages of telephone companies en-
ployes are increased. and straightwav
tolls are advanced 90 per cent.
Wages of packing house employees 90
up, and the packers promptly announce
that no reduction in the price of meat
products can be expected during the en-
suing year.
The price of wheat is fixed at 1926 a
bushel as against the prewar price OF
S100, and the high cost of bread has
no prospects of a decrease.
Employees of the wooden mills ask for
double wages, and the cost of clothing
keeps moving forward.
Cotton mills grant higher wages, and
everything made of cotton, from a spool
of thread to summer dress, helps pay
the increases.
Wages in iron and steel mills are in
creased by over 100 per cent, and the
prices of iron and steel products, inelud-
enters into the building of homes, re
main at figures that double the cost OF
building and add to rentals.
Wages of coal miners are advanced
and we are admonished that we must
expect to pay more for fuel.
We have no objection to increases OF
wages, but let wage-earners bear in
mind that as long as high wages con
tinue they must expect the high cost OF
living to continue. They should sharply
rebuke those who denounce the manu-
| facturers of and dealers in the neces
tiles of life as "pirates" and ''profit
GERS
And here is the one big fact, The
| trust busters have discovered, at last
| 1t is in the report of the United State
| tariff commission, which says, "Admit
! ting individual exceptions, the big con
Germs are the low cost concerns and thu
small concerns are the high cost con
Germs
| So big business after all lowers ant
does not raise the cost of living. Trutl
is eternal. 1t still survives.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-21
In the Days News.

Frank Lyon, Polk, who sailsetoday for
Paris to become head of the American
peace commission, has within a few years
attained brilliant record as diplomat
c and legal adviser of the United States
government. Recently he became Under
Secretary of the state department, new
position created by act OF congress. Mr.
Polk is of an old Tennessee family. One
of his grandfathers was Protestant Epis-
copal bishop, Leonidas Polk, who won
fame as leader of the Confederate army.
Mr. Polk is Yale A. B. and Columbia
LII. b. He began to practice law in New
York city in 1897, and within seven years
had been made a member of the state
civil service commission. For a year. 1914
ID, he was corporation counsel Of the City
of New York, and it was while he was in
this position that President Wilson picked
him out and summoned him to Washing
ton to succeed Robert Lansing as coun
lselor of the state department.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-21
A NEW STANDARD NECESSARY

Everyone feels the high cost of liv-
ing and is trying to evolve some meth
Cd of meeting it. The approved method
is the increase of wages but it has
proved no more effective than dog
chasing its tail The faster the dog
chases the faster the tail gets away from
him; and the higher mankind boosts it's
wages the higher it lifts the prices of
necessities. Present conditions are
largely the result of the hypothesis that
human labor is not commodity La
Dor demands the compensation of a GER
tain number of individuals rather than
a fixed quantity of labor. That is what
the minimum wage really is. fixed
compensation for individuals Present
high prices show how excessively ex-
pensive it is.
Beneficial results might be secured
if the mind of labor could be diverted
from its hopeless pursuit of prices and
led to adopt a different method-the
piece system which labor has so gen
orally condemned. In other words a de-
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-21

termination of constructive units neces-
1ary to produce an article and the prop
ar compensation for each unit To IL
lustrate: A pair of shoes require def
mite amount of material, a definite
amount of labor, a definite amount of
expenses of distribution, and a definite
amount of capital. These various
amounts can be easily determined
and the proper compensation for
he labor, the material, the cap
ital and the distribution can easily be
determined by the cooperation of these
different elements. When this is done
he legitimate price of a pair of shoes
s fixed.
If these things could be accomplished
the manufacturer of shoes would know
just how much labor, material, etc, h'
should pay for and the amount to b,
paid for them. The lahorer would have
4 definite price level to meet and by in
reasing production would increase hi
)wn compensation.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-21
MONDAY, JULY 81, 1919.
TOO MUCH POLITICS IN AIR.

Much concern follows the announce
ment of the war department that all
officers holding temporary commissions
must be discharged before October and
only officers in the regular army will
have command of the peace time forces,
because this order practically destroys
the air service of the army. This re-
duction in army officials is made nee
essary by the reduction in the army ap
preparation made by Republican con
gress; and the method of reduction is
adopted by the Democratic administra
ton. Undoubtedly it was the purpose
Of the Republican congress to have a
well proportional reduction of the army
uniformly affecting the different
branches of service to bring them down
to reasonably expensive peace time
basis. Apparently it is as clearly the
purpose of the Democratic administra
tion to protect the regular army from a
proportionate reduction at the expense
of other branches of the service. II
looks like a partisan conflict between
the Democratic administration and the
Republican legislative forces.
The reason the air service is so bad
ly crippled is that most of the airmen
hold temporary commissions and under
the order referred to must retire to
private life, while among the regular
to take command of reasonable all
force 1t is stated by those Informed
| regarding the situation that men whc
know nothing about air service will be
| in command of part of the weakened
air force in existence after October
The severity of this blow to the all
service is manifest to the most mex
perienced. The effect must be The
same as putting a strictly profession
al man in command of a practical in
dustry of which he has no knowledge
1t has the appearance of a political eff
fort to protect the regular army re
CARELESS of the disaster it will bring t.
the air service. 1t is a misfortune tina
viii have serious results on a well bal
anced development of the whole mill
tary strength and defence of the coun
try 1t is hoped that craftsmanship
may yet discover a way to curb the pc
litical Juggling of such an essentia
arm of the government.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-21
I oday' 5 Events

Belgium today celebrates the annivers
AIRY of her national independence.
The celebration of the Belgian national
fete day III Brussels today will be made
memorable by the visit of President Pom
care of the French republic
Under Secretary Polk of the state de
partment at Washington is to sail fol
Paris today to become head of the Amerl
can peace delegation in succession to Sec
rotary Robert Lansing
Delegates from the United States anC
Canada will assemble in New York city
today for the annual convention of the In
ternational Steel and Copper Plate Print
ers Union of North America
The Very Rev Father Sebastian, Pro
vineial- Consuitor. of the Passionist Faith
ers, will celebrate the golden jubilee o
his ordination to the priesthood today a
the Monastery church in West Hoboken
n. j.
Western stockgrowers are to confer il
Salt Lake City today on the Kent bill
now before congress, providing for thu
supervision of the public domain fol
grazing purposes by the United States
secretary of agriculture
A wide range of labor and industrial
problems that have followed in the wax,
of the war are scheduled to receive con
sideration at the annual convention o
the Minnesota State Federation of Labor
opening today at New Ulm
/ The annual convention of the Interna
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-21
DADDY'5' EVENING
ufAWY TALE e.
Wf1ARY @AHAn BONNER
So he AUTHOR
THE PONIES.
So he AUTHOR

''In a stable" said Daddy, "there
were two ponies and their names were
Stephen and Betsy. Along side Of
their stalls was bigger horse whose
name was Alfred
Now Alfred looked after Stephen
and Betsy and told them what they
should do and how they should act.
And he did more besides this, for it
would have been rather tiresome If
he had spent all the time telling them
how they should behave. So he told
them stories, too. And I shall tell you
of an afternoon they all had of story
telling in the stable.
BETSY and Stephen said Alfred. Z
have taught you your lessons for the
day. have told you how you should
neigh politely when you are given
lump of sugar and some oats.
81 have also told you what rides
you should take the children. l have
told you how you should take them
| along SO nicely while they tell you
what nice ponies you are.
".And l have told you that you
| mustn't kick or bite or behave badly.
| for no well-behaved pony will do that.
| And, too, have tried to let the chill
| dren know that the better they treat
you the nicer you will be- For that
is the way with all of US, big horses,
| people, ponies.
The better we are treated, the
nicer will we be, for then we won't
| feel nervous and miserable and un.
i happy, but we will feel cheerful and
pleasant.
II have tried TO tell them this when
they have come in the stable. l have
looked around at them and l have
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-21

really be in the imperial class of auto
cratic rulers. If so, perhaps the gov
ernor better be put down from his high
seat and sent to some st. Helena along
with the dethroned Hohenzolern to
play checkers or chop wood with him,
whichever is allowed to beguile the ted
ium of exile. Mr.. Clement may not be
be able to tell the exact moment when
he experienced religion, but he certain
~ is more temperate in speech than
some of these violent prohibitionists
who are apt to forget St. james admon
ition with regard to bridling the tongue
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-21
Need of More Trout Ponds.
bennington Banner.)

At the hatchery in the Bushnell dis
trict just now there is an astonishing
demonstration of the results that can
be obtained with native brook trout I'M
der favorable conditions. Last fall
after he had distributed nearly all of
the season S hatch, County Game War
den S. B. Hawks retained about two
hundred and fifty lingering fish which
are now in one of the old wood-walled
raceways. These trout, which are about
eighteen months old, have grown so
rapidly that there are specimens that
will weigh all of quarter of a pound
fish that would delight the heart of any
angler. They are chunky, vigorous
trout and will weigh more to the inch
than fish in the wild state
The remarkable growth attained is, of
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-21

tried to make my eyes tell them a
good deal, how we like to be well
treated and loved and cared for, and
how we in turn do our parts.
And l have neighed at them to
let them know | was giving them a
little horses talk.
But now ! must tell you of an ad-
venture l had some time ago.
"'Oh, yes, said Betsy, please tell US
about your adventure And Betsy got
on the floor of her stall and looked all
ready for storytelling time.
"'Please tell US your adventure
said Stephen, and he stood up, for he
thought he would like TO hear of the
adventure better that way. Both these
ponies were black, with black names
and black tails, and oh, their hair was
SO soft and lovely!
Once said Alfred, the big horse.
L ran away. l got out of my stall,
and at first | had glorious run. !
went and l went and l went. But
after awhile I became very tired.
Then / began to try to find my way
back home.
land l couldn't do 1t, and oh, how
dreadfully worried l was. l didn't
know what to do. I tried to find my
home, and l kept going and going.
without reaching it,
AFTER awhile nice farmer met me
and said whoa" in such kindly voice
that l stopped. He took me into his
stable and gave me fine oats, and then
he took me back home, for he had
heard had run away
Betsy and Stephen neighed that the
story had such happy ending.
"'YeS,' said Alfred, and l was so
glad to get home that / never wander
ed off again.
But | have another story to tell
you of the time took little boy for
a drive for the first time. He had new
er been driving before, and my master
heard that he had been sick, and that
driving would be good for him; only
he had no horse TO drive.
"'And l was the horse which pulled
him along as he took his first drive.
"'Never will forget how he loved
the countryside and the flowers, just
coming out, and he thought l was so
wonderful. Think of having taken Il
| child for a drive who had never been
| beforer
| Wonderful said Betsy.
you've told us such nice Stories"
! said Stephen.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-21
They re Crazy.
(Rntland News. J

When that Brattleboro farm man
ager who eloped with his employer 5
cash and another mans wife-the
mother of ten Misunderstanding a
wife and family of his own, is caught,
as he surely will be, the first thing
should be an examination into his san
ity. 1t doesn t seem as if any man
whose brain wasn't added would com
nit a double crime of this kind es-
pecially considering the impedimenta he
saddled upon himself. Catalog them;
Embezzlement of his employer s funds
taking another man S wife ten years
his senior, the mother of herd, -four
of whom are very young and abandon
ment without anyone to care for them:
abandoning his own wife and children!
Why do some men seemingly deliberate
ly choose lingering, painracked
death2 They re crazy; that S ALL
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-21
Incorporate Speech.
Springfield Reporter.

Rev John A. Hamilton Methodist
minister of Burlington, has delivered
feryid discourse in which he de-
nounced Governor Clement and ''the
dominant political party of the state
for their attitude on the prohibition
question. 'fVermont as a state is gov
erned by a man, who, in working
against prohibition, virtually supported
the saloons. and it should be said to
his everlasting shame,'' declared the
reverend gentleman. and one can i'm
agine the dust that arose from the pull
pit cushions as he said it. "There is a
party in this state, one very powerful.
that would support the kaiser himself if
he should come here and run on their
platform. was the next illumination
which disturbed the slumbers of the
pews, and set everybody to sneezing in
another micrObic exhalatiOn from the
thumped plush, while the congregation
dreamily wondered if Percival w. could
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-21
Little Benny's
Note Book
r. rrSr, IN ,r,
By LEE PAPE

| had sents yesterday AFTERNOON and
| was going pass Mommy Simmnses store
and there was box of long hat pins in
the window with diffrent color glass nobs
on the end of them, saying on the sine,
3 sents apeece, werth bubble
G., sents apeece, | thawt, Ill buy one
and give it to Mary Watkins to pin her
/, hats on with.
WITCH | went in and did, taking me
about 10 mlnnlts on account of changing
my mind so awffin witch color | wunted,
and | pinned it on the inside of my coat,
being red one, and went Ground to Ma
ry Watkinses house and she was setting
on the frunt steps on a pillo looking up
and down, saying, Hello, Benny, wont
you sit down?-do you wunt me to go
in and get a pillo for you, III have to go
all the way up in the setting room to
get it.
Meening she drather not, and | sed, No
/ thanks, this is all rite. And | sat down
on the steps and we started to tawk about
diffrent things sutch as the beet of the
weather aud nobody having eny parties
lately, and after vile | sed, Wat do
You think l jest found? Thinking it
would sound too conceeted if | sed |
/ inside of my coat, saying, 1t looks jest
like a new one, don't it?
O, izzent that perfeckly bewtifll, ware
! did you find it? sed Mary Watkins
Outside Alommy Simminses, do you
wunt to see it? | sed And | handed it
to her and she looked at it saying, o,
well / declare, its the very one | lost, and
that's the very place | lost it.
No it izzent, neither. | sed Thinking,
Gosh, G, and Mary Watkins sed, 1t is
so, too. and | sed, No it Amt, and she
sed, Wy amt it?
| Because it amt, ] sed.
/ Well of all things, I'm insulted, sed
Mary Watkins looking hawty. And she
handed me back the hat pin, saying, Heer
| take The old thing if You don't bleeve i'll
7 giving things back wen you find them.
Wich / wouldent take it, saying, 0. al
rite, maybe you did lose it for all | know
And | gave it to her without getting eny
credit for it being a present.
Proving if you don't start in by giving
yourself credit you're libel not to get eny.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-21

"Lawns and porches have a money
value,' says real estate man. In out
wing districts a porch and well kept
grass plot add 1000 and sometimes
much more to the selling price of a
mall house. 1t is also a fact that few
persons in ordinary peace times will
buy a detached house unless it has a
porch and grass plot. A good many
people know from much hard work and
many bills for grass seed that porch
oftener easier to acquire than a
lawn.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-21

tional ;Stereotypers and Eleetrotypers'
union of North America, one of the most
important labor gatherings of the year,
will assemble in Denver today with an
attendance of delegates representing local
branches throughout the United States
and Canada
Labor organizations in France and Italy
have planned for an international labor
manifestation today, when there is expect
ed to be complete stoppage of all work
in the two countries for a period of q
hours The objects of the demonstration
it is said, are ''the cessation of armed
intervention in Russia, the rapid demo
bilization of armies, the restoration o
constitutional rights, full and absolut,
amnesty, and, above all, war on tn,
increased cost of living by all possible
means
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-21

The Reformer is on sale every evening by
the following news dealers:
cleveland, s. L. Purinton (Esteyville)
Brooks House Pharmacy, Aliens Depot News
stand, Gilbert Pollica, 297 South Main St
(Fort Drummer district.
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East Dummerston, NJ. E. Brown.
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Greenfield, Mass, Greenfield News Co.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-21
Good Advertising G.
(Rutland News.

Those two items in The Rutland News
in one issue-the catching of a seven
pound rainbow trout in Lake Dunmore
and a black bass of over seven pounds
in Lake Bomoseen-are not bad adj
vertisement of the fishing resources OF
Vermont. And the sportsmen in other
states are assured that there are plenty
more fish Just as big in the streams and
lakes of this state. The folks at home
should always be alive to the fact that
it pays to keep stocking the waters witt
the fish proper TO them. Good fishing
will attract thousands of visitors tc
Vermont resorts.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-21
Today'S BIRTHDAYS.

Anna A. Gordon. president of the Ma
tional W G. I. T., born in Boston, GO
years ago today
Joseph A. A. Burnquist, governor OF
Minnesota, born at Dayton, Iowa, &C
years ago today
Fred NJ. Warner, former governor Of
Michigan, born in Nottingham, England
"a years ago today
Mrs. Frances Folsom Preston Former
y Mrs. Grover Cleveland), born in Buffa
10, 50 years ago today
Most Rev. Edward j. Hanna, archbish
Oh Of San Francisco, born in Rochester
\. Y, 80 years ago today.
Dowager Queen Maria Christina 0
Spain, mother of the present king, borI
IN Vienna, 81 years ago today.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-21
TO THE SUBSCRIBERS.

1t is the aim of the management to secure
efficient service in the delivery of the paper
each night, and it solicits the cooperation Of
subscribers TO that end. Prompt reports should
be given of each failure to receive the paper
on the morning following the omission, il
person, by telephone or postal card, thus en-
abling the cause of the error to be promptly
and accurately discovered and the proper rem
edy Immediately applied. 1t is only by thi:
method that the publisher can secure the de
sired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-21

Professor Hills of the state agrieul-
tural college writes to the Washington
county agent for information relative
o the story which recently appeared
in the papers concerning four men who
became intoxicated after tapping silo.
He wishes the information from an ag-
ricultural standpoint. That may have
been the standpoint of the men who did
the tapping.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-21
TO ADVERTISERS.

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subsequent insertion without change of copy.
Reading notices are published at foot of local
items.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-21
Today's Anniversaries,

lSlS-Charles Robinson, first state gov.
ernor of Kansas, born at Hardwick.
Mass. Died near Lawrence, Kan.
Aug II, 1894
l86l-Barnard f. Bee, the Confederate Of
ficer through whom the name oil
'Stonewall'' was conferred on Gen
Thomas j. Jackson, killed at Bull
Run. Born at Charleston, S. C.
in 1928
lS64-Gold was discovered in LAS
Chance gulch,'' on the present sit,
of Helena, Mont
lS94-Paris was placarded with hand bill
threatening anarchist explosions b,
wholesale
1896 Marriage of Prince Charles of Den
mark and Princess Maud of Vale
(now king and queen of Norway
l9ll-United States senate passed tn
Canadian reciprocity bill by vot
of SO to 27
l9l5-Washington sent third note to Gel
many concerning the rights of mel
trail ships.
l9l6-An advance guard Of Russian cava
~ penetrated into Hungary
l'l9l7-Great Russian offensive against Au
tro-Germans collapsed and turne
into a rout.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-21

The Red Cross home service commit
zee of Burlington pursues a wise course
in taking under its wing the 40 French
brides who will arrive at Fort Ethan
Allen with their husbands These young
women know nothing of American ways
and language and this service will help
them to adapt themselves to their new
country.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-21
The Help That Counts.

No one can help you much. No one
can help you at all. Except as you help
yourself. Others may point out the
road, but You must walk in it. Others
may show YOU the right, but you must
choose it. Do not sit down and wait
for help to live better and accomplish
comes from yourself.-Girls Compan-
ion.