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Evening star., 1919-09-28
MANY EX-SOLD|ERS
AIDED BY K: OF c.
&c., ,312 Placed in Professions
and Trades in Northeast
ern States.
LOWEST PAY, $18 A WEEK

Fifty million dollars year! That
is a lot of money. 1t represents the
yearly earnings of 1892 discharged
soldiers who have been placed in the
professions and the trades in the
northeastern states through the ef-
forts of the Knights of Columbus.
Not one of these men has been sent
to job that pays him less than SIS
week-the K. of c. does not consider
offers of less than that sum for the
work of a returned soldier.
The story of what has been done
in seventy-five days by the K. of c. to
open the door of opportunity to over
seas men reads like a romance OF the
modern business world. First of all,
the K. of C. sent out an army of SOL
dier and sailor canvassers. They vis-
tied 24S.384 employers in the New
England states, New York. New Jer-
sey, Pennsylvania. Delaware, and
Maryland. They found 70.O23 jobs
waiting for capable men.
The work in the northeastern states
constitutes about one-half of the ma
tlOHdI cloTI VI LHc n. Va ~ AAS
statistics for the other sections Of the
country have not yet been completed.
p. w. Collins Director.
Peter w. Collins is director general
of the reconstruction and employment
service of the Knights of Columbus.
In discussing the work he said:
I'm the northeastern states alone we
have found employment for 1882
men. Probably an equal number have
been placed in other sections of the
country. In the northeastern terri
tory the average wage is $24 week.
THE total annual income for the
1882 men therefore is $49,061,376. or
almost $4,000. 900. In the jobs found
sented 131 varied occupations and
professions. Several men were found
capable of filling $7.000-a-year va
cancies discovered by our employ
ment' scouts. We rejected all con-
sideration of jobs that offered less
than $f8 a week. We did not want
any man who had risked his life for
his country to accept less than that.
for we Inquired that was the smallest
sum on which he could live properly
and cleanly as an American citizen.
> I'VE were aStonished to find that
more than 500. of the first 5000 en-
pfoyers listed as needing. workmen
wanted to pay only from 81 to $12 a
called silk stocking jobs and we didn't
bother with them. We went after the
cotton sock and beefsteak-and-pota-
toes stuff for men. And we found it to
an extent that exceeded our expecta-
tfof1s'>
Evening star., 1919-09-28
Plate Printers to Meet Today.

The September meeting Of the plate
printers, one Of the largest Of the
organized labor unions Of the city,
will be held this afternoon at Typo
graphical Temple on g street. The
meeting Is called for 2:30 o'clock.
Matters of vital Importance to the
members of the trade will come up
for discussion ana action.
Evening star., 1919-09-28
Socialist Papers Views.

The Freiheit, the Independent So
cialist organ in Berlin. suggests that
the men responsible for the scheme
really have in mind something more
than suppression of disorders. the
paper then quoting from the circular
as follows:
Soon the time will come when the
fatherland will have need of every
resolute and proven arm"
The circular. according to the news
papers. says. that the corps is organ
iZing a reserve" from among the
best of its released soldiers. this re-
serve to be called into the service of
the corps in time of need. Details are
then given of the method of issuing
such a call. The Freiheit. in a recent
issue, demanded to know who had
given the corps the right to establish
such a reserve, and to promise regu-
lar reichswehr or national army pay
to these "reservists" whenever called.
Evening star., 1919-09-28

The ordinary speed of a whale Is
about five miles per hour Hard
pressed, speed of fifteen has been
recorded. but not beyond that
Evening star., 1919-09-28
Chaser speeder; Loses watch,

Traffic Onicer Milton D. Smith of
the third police precinct. who is well
known to automobilists in the vicinity
OF Scott circle and intersecting
streets, lost his watch yesterday att
ernoon while chasing q speed violator.
Evening star., 1919-09-28

to attend mass, because it was far
from home and less Likely to attract
the attention of the police. Here
also Eponine found Jean and deliv-
cred to him the note which enticed
him to the Gerbeau tenement. In
front of this church. too. Javert. dis
guised as a beggar, was recognized
by Vatican.
Evening star., 1919-09-28
Visit to Hugo's Home.

The trip ended with visit to the
home Of Victor Hugo. No. 6 Place
des Vosges, where the first chapters
of Les Miserables'' were written and
where Charles Dickens, who had
oppressed of England. visited the
man who was doing the same for
France.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-09

years membership George Anderson OF
Mount Hermon won first prize, Richard
Huber, End; drill of boys of over one
years membership, Lawrence Holton
won 1st prize and Alden Doolittle End.
The cup given by Capt Roy Miner OF
Brattleboro for the best drilled man OF
the Northfeld companies was won Ser
geant Harold Smart The cup for the
best drilled man of all the companies
was won by Sergeant Albert Goldsmith
Donald Finch, captain of the Brigade,
was given cup for long and faithful
service. Between drills Harry A. Max
well gave talks on his service as Y. NJ.
C. A. secretary which were most inter
estin@ Col Cpshmanl of Turner's Falls,
Lieut. Col. J. w Duncanson and Capt.
W. If. Duncanson were inspecting Off
GERS. Music was furnished by Mrs. w.
c. Roberts and Paul Berry sang, just
A Song at Twilight.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-09
PERSONAL.

Carl Wiggin of Greenfield, Mass,
spent the weekend at C. w. Berry s.
Mrs. Olive c. Putnam of Townshend
visited Saturday in the home of her
daughter, Mrs. C. w. Berry
Miss Ann Moran of Springfield,
Mass, is, guest here of her cousin,
Miss Margaret 7. Moran of Beech
street.
Mrs. Oscar Haas and daughters Of
Montelair. n j., have arrived at their
summer home on Ames hill, where they
will stay several weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs Robert Sargent. who
had been guests here Of Mr. and Mrs.
Francis p Blake, returned this morn
inc to their home in Grafton, Mass.
Mrs. Nora Cavanaugh, who had
worked several years in the Brook
House as chambermaid, finished work
there Saturday and went to Boston
where she win be employed.
Mrs. II. NJ Hovey has received {
cablegram from her daughter, Mrs
Clara Hovey Gilman, saying that sh,
expects soon to return to this country
but as the date is indefinite she WI
again cable when it is known
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-09
KEENE DEFEATED
By ATHLETICS
Il -
Local Baseball Team Wins
Opening Game by
9tO 4 Score
FIFTH INNING
BAD FOR VISITORS

Homo Team Scores Seven Runs in That
Pharmaceutical We'll Played Consid-
cring Condition in Which Spring
Freshct Left Diamond
The Brattlcboro Athletics defeated
the Kecnc White Scx at Island park
Saturday afternoon by score of 0 to
4. Oulsid, Of the fifth inning the game
was interesting and well played con
sidcring he condition in which the dia-
nond was LEFT Ivy the high water this
spring The grounds are in need Of
considerable attention to make them fit
for fast work.
In the first inning KANE rolled one
to third for an out Filion was safe
when The left fielder mu,Tcd his fly,
stole second and went to third on an
overthrow by the catcher, scoring on
Kennedy Z sacrifice fly. In the second
Keene s first man UP grounded to
short Parhcntcan was hit by a
pitched bah and adEanccd TO second on
the mshlndlinE Of Heating S rap. Both
men moved ahead when O'Neil singled
to right ana parcntean scored on Au-
ger s hit to left. Keatiag was thrown
out at the plate by Kennedy. o Neil
and Anger scored On reason $ hit to
right, Larivicra was safe en- Kane 8
error, McClcarn drcTcd enc in front
of the plate ana was safe ON Clune s
bad peg to FIRST but johnson got La
rivicre before he reached second
This ended thc s,or,ng fer Keonc al
though The visitors leol.rd dangerous in
the ninth with bassfon balls and two
singled.
Brattlcboro scored one in the third
On an error and Two Titt Tile real fire
works came in the fifth when Keppelc
seemed to lose I'll he had On the ball
At the same time Old Sol looked
Keene S right cp.saaE1.aesl4A4gaitl.-.alle
eye and caused him to loose four sue
cessiye flies. With two on, two runs
and none out Keppele was dcrrickcd
and Anger sent in to pitch He was
greeted with three hits which toeethcr
with an error and base on Ialls ae
counted for five moro runs. The sam
mary:
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-09
MORTIFIED, MASS.
Boys Brigade Annual Inspection.

The Annual Inspection OF the boys
brigade was held on Friday night at
Skinner gymnasium. This was especial
" interesting as many guests were pres
the town were largely represented. Gin
ton sent il and four came from the
Springfield brigade. st. Miehaels Cadets
of Brattleboro were also guests and
gave an exhibition march which was ex
ccllcnt In the drill of the boys Of ono
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-09

Total bases, Brattleboro IA, Keene s.
ncdy. Two-base hits, Filion, Kennedy.
Stolen bases, Filion, Stowell (2), Dun
Struck out by johnson 8, by Keppele
>, by Anger .. Bases on balls, off John
son 4, off Keppele l. off Anger l. Batter
hit, Parentcan. Left on bases, Brattle-
boro Z, Kccne 4. Wild pitch, Keppele.
Time, H., 40 min. Umpire, j. Clune.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-09
National League.
Games Today.

Games Today.
Boston at Chicago.
Brooklyn at Cincinnati
New York at Pittsburg.
Philadelphia at ST. Louis.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-09
College Baseball.

At New Haven, Ct, Cornell 2, Yale /,
At Worcester, Holy Cross 2, Harvard
o.
At Princeton, n. j., Princeton 8
Pennsylvania /.
Tufts 3.
AT Exeter, n. H., Phillips Exeter II
Phillips Andover 4.
At Providence, Brown II, Syracuse 4
Az Burlington, Vermont 4, Boston
college 9
At Easton, Pa, Lehigh ., Lafayette
O..
At Orono, Me-, Bowdoin Maine game
postponed. rain.
At Schenectady, n. Y, Union :
Rensselaer, 3.
At New York, Fordham %, Wills
Nova .
At HohoEen n J., Rutgers :, Stew
er5 3.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-09
Tuition Increased at Seminary.

At the close of the spring term of
Mortified seminary. w. r. Moody pres
ident OF the school. announced that
with the opening of the fail term, the
tuition would be increased. 1t will
then be SIG term or 1922 for the
year President Moody stated that the
trustees of the seminary had unwil-
ingly found it necessary to make this
advance on account of the high cost of
living and that the 1892 would be only
one-half the cost of each student for
the school year. The other half is raised
each year by Mr.. Moody and the trus-
tees.
Miss Edith Kidder Of Wardsboro is
visiting Mr. and Mrs. q. n. Kidder.
The first division of the Young Wo-
men s. conference opens on Wednesday
of this week.
Lieut. Frank Otte has returned from
service in France and is visiting his
mother, Mrs. John Otte on the Ridge.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-09

Homo Team Scores Seven Runs in That
Franc Contest We'll Played Consid-
cring Condition in Which Spring
Freshct Left Diamond
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-09
RIRTIIS.

In West Brattleboro, june 8, son,
Francis Marshall, to Francis H. and Dor
othy (Angier) Taylor, grandson to Mrs.
Lenora Taylor of West Brattlcboro and
Mr.. and Mrs f. NJ Angler of Brattle-
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-09
STANDING OF CLUBS.
American League.

Games Today.
Detroit at Boston.
Chicago at New York.
Cleveland at Philadelphia.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-09
A coed nus.ne year.

making the taking Of insurance easy.
An uncertain year makes the necessity
of good insurance clear, Insure while
irsurablc. National LIFE Insurance Co.,
of VI. (Mutual) EARLE s. KINs-
LEY, General Agent, Rutland vt
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21

President Mckinley, General Wood
began early in 1900 his third great
constructive task, physical and polit-
ical. The work of renovating and re-
modelling nation was simply the
Santiago job on much larger scale.
Sanitation was established every
where, superb and enduring roads
were built, schools were created in
great numbers, cities were cleaned
up, courts were reformed, justice
was established. industry and com
merce were restored and the foun-
dations of the republic laid.
Under his auspices and inspira-
tion a thing was done in Cuba in
those days that has revolutionized
life in the whole tropical world. The
mosquito had been discovered to be
the carrier of yellow fever infection,
and with that discovery followed
the elaboration Of a system OF pro-
lection that has virtually ersdicated
the deadly disease which for cen
tur1es has terrorixed and dectmsted
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21

gested that Leonard Wood be made
colonel and he lieutenant colonel.
This suggestion was readily agreed
to, as Wood had many letters from
officers under whom or with whom
he had served, recommending him
for line command.
This regiment, which soon became
known as the Rough Riders" was
officially designated as the 1st Vol
unteer Cavalry. It's organization
gave Colonel Wood a great oppor-
tunity to utilize his experience and
demonstrate his organizing ability.
The regiment was authorized late in
April, 1898, and on June "a it had
fought and won its first battle--at
Las Guasimas, Cuba.
The Rough Riders were General
Woods first notable creation-the
first Of his constructive achieve
ments. Roosevelt inspired this ad-
venturesome band Of American cru
sa6ers, but Wood made them into a
regiment--and did 1t despite the
chaos and turmoil of a confused
War Department. 1t is recorded
that Wood drafted every order
requisition and other paper form of
the necessary red tape and laid the
whole bundle on General Alger's
desk one day.
What do I do?" asked Alger.
Nothing but sign" said Wood.
Alger signed.
The making Of the Rough Riders
led to the making Of Cuba. No
need to tell the story Of how Wood
succeeded General Wheeler as COM
mander Of the cavalry brigade in
the Santiago campaign and was
made military governor Of the city
and district after the surrender of
the Spaniards. At last at thirty
seven, Wood got his great oppor-
tunity. Before the Cuban campaign
he had achieved hy measure Of
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21

HAN7AA ESozAAaDA, ,0zuvz4 ~ 54cNoeo1mD


roads were impossible and the
streets not much better. The yellow
fever filled all with panic fear.
There was neither an organization
to work with nor instruments for it
to use if there had been one.
General Wood was confronted
with the social, political and ma
terial regeneration Of a community
that had been degenerating for dec
AIDES.
Wood tackled tho Augean Job. A
rough plan was made Of the things
that must be done, q competent Of
ficer was assigned to each task, en-
dowed with ample authority and told
to do 1t. Wood gave general direc-
ton and inspiration. Manifestly,
the first things to be done were to
feed the starving people and bury
the dead. Horrible, deadly work
IL was" says General Wood in his
own account Of this second task,
''hut at last 10 was fnixhed. At the
same time numbers ot men we're
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21

Trade and industry restored to
healthy activity.
Water supply In process Of be-
ing greatly increased at very
slight expenditure.
School system in process Of or
ganization.
This unparalleled regeneration" :"
the quoted writer continues, 'had
been wrought not by host of men
native to the locality and occupying
Offices long established and enjoying
traditional prestige, but by an
American brigadier general of VOL
unteers, stranger to the place and
the people, embarked in the work on
moments notice, and having for
his immediate aids only few fellow
army officers, some Of whom had
been out Of West Point less than two
years, and all Of whom were as new
to the situation as himself. It was
the tour d. fq,ce Of . man Of genius,
Tor In the hssdsr, mcrs Fundamental
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21

working day and night In the streets,

working day and night In the streets,
removing the dead animals and other
disease producing materials. Others
were engaged in distributing food to
the hospitals, prisons, asylums and
convents-in fact, to everybody, for
all were starving"
Even while the famine was being
relieved and the dead were being
buried General Wood began laying
five miles of city street pavement,
building two hundred miles of coun-
try road and the improvement of the
water supply. In four months the
Santiago job was either done or Sc
we'll on the way to being done that
its success was certain. A writer of
that time found that at the end of
that period these things had been
accomplished:
Population rescued from star
vation, provided with work and
made to work.
One Of the foulest cities on earth
made clean.
Great progress In street paving
and road building.
Radical reform in custom house
service.
Reduction of municipal ex-
penses.
Reformation Of the courts.
Law and order esta ablished and
maintained.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21
Settling a Riot

Many Incidents of this time are
recorded showing tho mans force Of
character. On one occasion a mob
Of five hundred Cubans attacked the
Spanish Club in Santiago, near the
generals headquarters 'T know it."
said the general, when q sentry re-
ported tho affair to him IL have
heard the row. We will 20 over and
stop It."
HE picked up his riding whip,
the only weapon he ever carries" !"
continues the chronicler, land, ac-
companied by tho one American SOL
der, strolled across to the scene Of
the trouble"
Arrived there the general told the
lone soldier to "shove them back"
"Around swung the rife, and in
much less time than is taken In the
telling, way was cleared in front
Of the door"
Instructing the soldier to shoot the
first man who approached tho club,
the general strode away, and the
riot was over.
Appointed major general and
made Governor General Of Cuba by
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21

the people Of the tropics and sub
tropics It is doubtful whether tho
Panama Canal ever would have been
completed but for this discovery.
or Woods third constructive task,
the organization Of Cuba, Theodore
Roosevelt wrote In 1902 that II it
had been performed three thousand
years ago ut would have made him
hero mixed up with the Sun God In
various ways"
The fourth constructive enter
prise OF his career as a public man
came to General Wood when Presi-
dent Roosevelt sent him to the
Philippines to deal with the Moros.
the fierce Mahometan inhabitants
Of the southern archipelagos Of the
Philippines. Going there as mill
tary commander and civil governor,
the general had absolute power, bat
the situation that confronted him
seemed hopeless. It was the accumu-
lation Of several centuries Of Span
ish misrule or failure to rule, racial
hatred and religious and social DIFF
ferences of the bulk Of the In
habitants Of the Philippines.
A hundred battles impressed the
fierce barbarians with the power Of
the new rulers, but at the same time
the benefcent intentions Of tho
United States were steadily aud
tactfully demonstrated to them.
Two years of unrelenting deter
mination and uninterrupted driving
toward the goal turned the Moros
"from a slave-holding. polygamoua.
headhunting band" into "a self
governing community of the highest
order" at was a remarkable In
stance Of state building" says the
biographer Sears, (which, following
upon the Cuban episodes, stands out
as the greatest achievement any
man has accomplished In colonial
history"
AS always with Wood. the physi-
cal reconstruction Of the country
went hand in hand with It's political
and social regeneration, and he
marked Moro land with improved
and new trails, roads and trans
portation routes.
When General Wood returned to
the United States after q term as
military commander Of the Philip
pines as whole he turned his hand
soon to the fifth creative task Of his
career, namely, the creation Of a cit
izen army. The coming Of the World
War brought the citizen army with
It, but the ease with which tho ma
ton accepted conscription and the
rapidity with which officers wers
trained and provided were due, In
part at least, to the tireless CAM
paign in behalf Of universal train
ing, reserve officers training and
preparedness that he had carried on
for years.
The sixth national Job that fell
to Wood the builder was that Of
an army maker. Denied the privi-
lege Of serving in France, he organ
lied and trained two divisions for
service. One Of them, the 89th, was
in the A. E. F., and though tho
other, the 10th, never got abroad, il
was declared by French and British
officers at the end Of three months
to be the "best prepared and trained
division they h;si seen Ia this eoun.
try."
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21
General Leonard Wood Builder:
Some of His Lasting Public Works
Cuba, the Philippines, New York,
All Show Enduring Examples
of His Constructive Ability

possible way through actual obser-
walton the necessity for bodily
health" says Joseph Hamblen Sears
in his recently published life Of Cen
eral Wood He learned that prep
aration. while it should never delay
action, can never be overdone. This
must have been drilled into the
young man by tho hardest and most
gruelins Of experiences. because it
has been one OF the gospels Of his
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21
His Meeting With Roosevelt

Meeting at some social function
at the Lowndes house one night in
1896, they walked homo together,
and were soon plunged into that
friendship which was to continue to
the end. When the Spanish-Ameri-
can War came, or until it became
apparent that it was coming, Wood,
tired Of the tame life in Washing
ton, was planning to leave the army
and start sheep ranching some
where In the West.
Both Roosevelt and Wood were
for war for months before 1t came,
and they had planned to raise vol
unteer ACKNOWLEDGMENT In New
York and Wood in Massachusetts,
but they were not able to carry out
this plan because of the confusion
existing in the War Department.
Then General Alger offered Roose-
velt the colonelcy of a cavalry regi-
ment, but the latter, aware Of his in
experience In military affairs. sue-
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21
Bv Theodore Nj. knappon

Bv Theodore Nj. knappen
r EoNARD WOOD, the builder.
At Santiago de Cuba you
drive over the we'll paved
Gale Marina and out the
iplsndid Boniata Road. Leonard
wood
A Havana you motor over the
Axious Esplanada Of La Punta or
slons ths Csr1o or Vedado. Leonard
Vsu1i
n ~ Sand oe the MoroA, In far
Hindanao and ths Sulus Of the Phil
ppinss you hnd roads where once
vsrs trails, and public palaces where
spcs were novels. General Woodl
In the Harbor Of Now York, on
Governors Island, you will find the
lasting material records of Leonard
Wood.
; In Washington, as chief Of staff,
his impress was so deep that the war
Of wars was fought along burrows
hs began.
Wherever General Wood was long
IN authority you will find some physi-
cal construction that constitutes an
enduring monument to his achieve
ments. He is one of the great pro-
consuls Of the American Republic
builder and administrator of PROV
inces, organizer, reorganizer, regen-
orator and administrator.
To this record as builder General
Woods friends point in their cam
pagn to make him President:
General Woods career is of ab-
sorbing interest, though for thirty
seven years it went on without be-
coming Of national concern or signif-
cance To the nation at large Cap
tain Leonard Wood, at the outbreak
Of the Spanish-American War, was
unknown. He had been a surgeon
IN the regular army for thirteen
years and he had not yet realized
his desire to be transferred to the
me, though from the first months of
his entrance into the regular army
he vas in fact fighting officer and
had distinguished himself as such
before he had been a week in active
service.