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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-14

Yesterday ratified the Sheppard amend
ment The Indiana senate and the Ark
ansas house passed the measure also.
Horace Fletcher, expert on dieteties and
the originator of "Fleteherism /, died yes
terday
Nine persons were killed and moro
than % injured last night near Scranton.
Pa, when an express on the Philadelphia
q Reading road crashed into loeal
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-14
vIcr1M or MIME ACCIDENT.
g. E. sheldon, Former Treasurer OF BE
publican National Committee Dead.

p NEW YORK, jan 4a4.-Eeorge r.
Sheldon, finafetsr and former. treasurer
OF the Republican national committee,
died today at Carbondale, H.. of IN
jilrieA received in d mine. accident re-
Gently near that city. Word OF HIS
death was received at his office in this
city bf which lie was lifelong resi-
dent '}at
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-14
More Rheumatism
Than Ever Before
CleggymAn. Lawyers, Brokers. Menazn-
IA (. les and Merchants Stricken.

]. tstis goyd fiend RheamatD is tsasing his
mining tits year, and a few words Of csp,
ton ifSsn one who knows ali about ii uass
Est b. alnlsd. ~ Ia
ystir seet dry, and avoid alcoholic drinks.
y III fteuhIItisnI gets you. Ut sca2tjca,
and you hsse shstf twlnges craving psao
,es' s@ouen joints OF rlnsescs, Sop' can
aaalAny get I'D Of oil asons IN iutz few
days Ey taxing one tesspo5ntut OF Rheunaa
once d DAY.. t..,s. ..t;,t H
Z All. druggists hhow aksut Rheutna: it's
ialtaiesis yst ,Svtrtnl faeAp yst t s.as'
W. r. Rost raA supply SOW WITH the
understanding THAI it must. sad ypl Of AL
IhAGpatac talhs or Jnonsy back Adv.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-14
AaMoHv DtscHARGEs 500.
Force Of Springfield Plant Now Re.
ducsd to 2,7o0.

SPRINGFIELD, Jan l4.-Five hun
dred more employees of the Springfield
Afrnory received notice yesterday that
they would be fufloushed or discharged
today. This hfinga the force down to
about 27o0 employees, and Col. L. D.
Hubhell is hopeful no further decrease
will be necessary NOW.
He has promised the manufacturers
that all married women in the afmory
who are receiving support from their
husbands will be discharged by Sat
urday. lie also said that he is employ.
ing returned soldiers wherever possible.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-14
PLEAD GUILTY TO MURDER.
Former N. Y. Editor Gets Long Sen
tence for Killing Wife.

NEW YORK, Jan. l4.--Charies Il.
Chaplin, formerly editor OF the New
York Evening World, who killed his
wife on Sept. 16, last, today pleaded
guilty TO murder in the second degree
and was sentenced to state prison for
q term of 90 years 10 life.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-14

A blaze which is thought to have or.
iginated in an unused horse barn Mon
day on the farm of G. S. Conger, of
Georgia, burned 20 cords of wood and
a large number of farm implements.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-14

AT the annual meeting of the Spring
field savings hank last week Fred G.
Field, who has been for so years a
member of the banks board of ineor-
porators, was presented loving cup
by the other officials of the institu.
ton.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-14
NEWS BRIEFS.

1t. Col G. A. Stevens of Lowell, Mass,
has cahled his family that the 36th divi-
sion has been ordered home from France
A. Mitchell Palmer. alien property Gus
todian, is slated to succeed Attorney Cen
eral Gregory
Washington and California Legislatures
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-14
OPEN DISORDER UNLIKELY.
Department of Justice Reports on Boil
shevist Agitations in u. S.

WASHINGTON, Jan. H. Bolshevist
agitation in the United States shows no
promise OF reaching a stage OF open dis.
order according to department of justice
officials.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-14
JAMAICA.

TIE missionary auxiliary viii meet
"Wednesday afternoon, Jan. -, with Mrs.
L. II Spfag,ie, who VIII serve tea. All
.sre ilssiteds . -.s...s.. +
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-14

Fire, probably originating from u
stove in the building, completely de-
stroyed the creamery at Westford
owned by Bedding & Pierce Saturday.
Eight hundred dollars worth of butter
was destroyed. Some insurance was ear.
red
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-14
UPSET STOMACH.
Pape's Diapepsin at once ends sourness,
gas, acidity, indigestion.

Don't stay upset! When meals don t
fit and you beleh gas, acids. and undi-
Tgested food. When you feel humps OF
indigestion pain. flatulence, heartburn
or headache YOU can get instant relief
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-14
VERMONT NEWS.

Clinton Hunter of Waterbury was
killed Friday while loading logs when.
a chain broke and the binder pole
struck him on the head.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-14
BIRTHS.

In New London, Conn, Jan. 0, daugh-
ter to Joseph and Katherine tFleming)
Corcoran
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-14

Lester II. Corkins of the firm of Els
worth & Corkins of Burlington, II,
died Saturday night following an i'll.
hess of less than week with pneumon.
ia. Mr.. Corkins was one of the best
known business men in Northern New
York and Vermont.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-14
DEATHS.

In Brattleboro, Jan. Il, Anna sullivan.
4, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs John Sulli-
van
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-14

Two cases growing out of the $780,.
600 advertising campaign recently
made on Barre granite, have been en-
tered in Washington county court by
Ralph E Denny of Montpelier, who was
authorized to make the collections for
the association formed TO do the adver-
Using.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-14

No waiting. Pape's Diapepsin will
put you on your feet As soon as you
eat one of these pleasant, harmless tab
let's all the Indigestion, gases, acidity,
and stomach distress ends, Your drug
gist sells them.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-14

W. T. Gehhie, un aged farmer of
Greensboro Bend, nearly met death
Friday evening when train hit the
sleigh in which he was riding and ear.
ried it for some distance in front of
the engine. No bones were broken but
il is thought the man was injured in
ternally. The horse was saved.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-14

The Rev. Thornton F. Turner, rec
tor OF st. Peters Episcopal church Mt.
Bennington since 1912, died Friday in
| New York city lie is survived by his
wife, who was daughter of Governor
Mccullough, and two SONS. He was
"a years of ags and had been in poor
health for two years He was a grad
uate of Princeton and Of the Union
| Theological seminary of New York.
Chester Sharon of Mount Holly, n
district school pupil, asks for 81 900
damages in an assault suit brought
{ in Rutland county court on the ground
that Alice Lackey, a teacher, struck
him with q club and with her fists
and also kicked him, causing his eyes
ITO become biae kened, his neck to be.
come diseolored from the imprints of
her hands and $50 bfuising his body
and limbs that his life was despaired
of. - 81
/ :. One of the largest business deals in
BARRE for several years was concluded
Saturday, when the. Adams company, q
Massachusetts, corporation. took over
/ the dry goods, store of A. P. Abbott &
! Co.. the transfer having been brought
i about primarily through the desire Of
Mr.. Abbott to retire from active bus
I mess The. head of the purchasing
concern is Stephen d. Adams of Bos-
/. toh, who has been connected with the
brown, Dureli company of that city
for nesrly % years. BESIDES his con.
hectioh with that house, Mr. Adams
Towns and operates 10 dry goods stores
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-14

Many requests for a short course of
instruction have been received by the
University of Vermont from butter
makers throughout the state who can
not leave their ereameries for a long
ef time. The dairy department of the
university, therefore, is offering a spe-
cial course of instruction for such men
from January 81 to February !, inelus-
i've
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-01-03

Medical Authorities now assure us
that thee deaths from influenza and
pneumonia number more than 6,000.-
900. Several times that many have
probably suffered from these two dis
cases. They have lost time ana
money. A very large portion of them
have impaired health. There is a
rather noticeable lack of scientific ex-
PLANTATION for the first and more wide
spread of the two, perhaps because
those who can talk authoritativeiy
ehave not yet been heard. But of one
hing we are certain. 1t came out Of
the nav of war and is one Of the
bills charged by war, in addition ~
bonds, personal sacrifice, and the
losses on the field of battle. This adj
tion to the regular bill which Mars
presents directly, is certainly clinch-
ing reason for Kidding the world of
war.
War always produces conditions out
of which great diseases come. In the
recent war, for instance, people We're
herded together in foul, unnatural
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-01-03
Banking and Politics

Mixing politics with banking IS
fatal without exception" warns all
the financial interests who have heard
that the farmers are fighting for bet
ter rural credits. But mixing banks
in politics is evidently very profitable
to bankers, if we may Judge by Their
practice. They have secured many
nice business advantages over pro-
ducers and, further yet, secure immu-
nifty from prosecution for usury anti
ether law violations. The comptroller
of currency reports that 1,247 ma
tional banks out of total of 1900
charge beyond the legal rate, and they
pet away with it too. The ordinary
run of law violators, on the other
hand, receive quick and stern JUS
fice.
No one except the bankers doubts
the need of thorough-going banking
~etorm. Instead of being a servant
to business, whether Of the farm O,
the fac.ory, it has become the master.
The firm of ]. P. Morgan & Co., foI
instance, which never did anything
but clip coupons and conduct pirate
raids on the Wall street exchange,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-01-03

controls the development of the large
industries of the nation. The small
er banking organizations are in the
same relative position toward produc-
tive business. We have on us the
heavy, inefficient hand of banker
management. 1t is inefficient be-
cause it judges all by the balance
sheet of the next six months, because
so many bankers use their financial
power to seize the property of others
by tricks more or less legal.
They got this power over industry
they got the power to withhold cred
it for personal advantage, they got
the power to levy illegal rates of
interest through politics, and through
politics only can the people take ii
away from them. Few, probably, OF
the common people want to dig up
our banking systems by the roots
They want to see the present system
civilized. They want service instead
of autocracy. One of the best wavs
to introduce little civilization is &c
furnish some state competition as the
Federal Farm Loan bank does and as
the Nonpartisan league demands for
short-term farm credits.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-01-03
rejecting Investors

The little fellows can not hold on. ae
big fellows buy back what they nave
sold at half price or less. Then DC
gins the game Of restoring conf
dence,o which in everyday language
means getting the suckers biting
again. The market is now IN Tue
sucker-biting stage.
Our advice would be to leave Do'h
Wall street and the wild cats ATONE
II the plain citizen can not hnd roohi
to invest his surplus on his own farm
or business, let him look to govern
ment bonds or federal farm loan
bonds and to investments in ms own
community, which he can watcn, U
cooperative undertakings where NJ
has something to say in the manage
ment. The possible returns from
these may be small compared with the
PROMISES of what stock promoters
outside may offer, but this must be
considered together with the relative
safety of the principal. In the OUT
side affairs the safety of the prlncloai
as well as the return depends on men
or interests to whom real integrity
towards the general public is imam
cial blunder. The press has told Us
about the wild cats. A number OF
people about town can verify from
their own bitter experience what we
say about Wall street.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-01-03

The following editorial appearing IN
the columns of the Culbertson Searen-
light is question that is on the lips
of practically every taxpayer:
''The report of the proceedings
of the County Commissioners OF
Sheridan County for the meeting
up to and including September 4.
1918, were published in the Plen-
tywood Pioreer Press, last week,
Dec. 20, three and a half months
after the meeting occurred. The
report of the proceedings of the
Commissioners of Valley County,
Mont, up to and including De-
ccmber IA, 1918, were published
in the Glasgow Courier on Dee.
20, SIX DAYS after the meet
ing occurred and while the re-
port was fresh and of some value
to our citizens. We would respect
fully ask Mr.. Joe Dolin, Editor
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-01-03
4 Reason Against War

conditions, not only in cities back OF
the devastated areas of Europe but III
all the cities of the world, because OF
lack of new buildings or repairing and
increased poverty. The same people
suffered greatly from lack of food and
from the authorizations Of such food
as they did have. Disease in new
and virulent form was thus able TO
get started, and once well started
nothing could stop it. Camp life also
provides a good soil for disease Dc
cause of the unnatural crowding Of
many persons in small spaces.
There is TO immunity from the
penalties for violating the laws Of
God or nature. War and war condi-
tons are violations Of these laws, ano
if we don't want to pay these terrible
penalties, we must abolish war. If
the present statesmen of the world
are too imperialistic to remove the
causes of war, let US fight for states
men who can and will do he neces
sary things. No one of US should let
up the fight against war, if he would
avoid the disastrous penalties.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-01-03

Somehow our respect for law AMI
order wasn't increased a bit when we
learned the other day that a young
girl of Is was sentenced to- 20 years
for the very doubtful offense of at
lacking our governments policy in
Russia and that one of the defendants
with her had lost his life under third
degree methods. Then we notice, too,
how the cases brought against
League leaders are proving to be
frame-ups, just as the League de
clared from the first. On top of this
we notice still further that the gov
eminent can not "fnd" any of the
criminals guilty of the atrocious Bis
bee deportations or of other mob vio-
lence against farmers and organized
workers. Are we crazy, or is there
something rotten in America up
stairs?
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-01-03

How afraid many of our prominent
writer's are of the evils of prosper
ity." We are still hearing about how
a press agent once discovered a piano
m a miners shanty, and now they are
viewing with alarm the fact that
some farmers use jitneys in their
work. Who can say but that this
anxiety accounts for the profteers
and monopolists? They wish to save
the people by taking all the evil on
themselves.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-01-03

According to the CAB of the spe-
cial interests, everyday rights, like
rule OF the majority, protection of the
law, free speech and free assemblagc
and liberty to organize, have become
soclallstic and consequently they are
justified in depriving people of these
rights by hook or crook, mostly crook.
So many good things, in fact indls-
pensable things, are declared socialis-
tic these days, that the word is get
ting respectable among the common
people. It's the thing and not the
name that counts with those VINO
have their eyes open.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-01-03

IA great to-do is being made in the
press against gold-brick promoters
who are separating the farmers and
Others from their Liberty bonds and
cash for bonds and stocks of doubt
full value. The warnings are good so
far as they go, but they leave out
some very significant facts. One of
these is that the financial interests
have agents who are quietly buying
up Liberty bonds at the low market
quotations, so quietly as to prevent a
rise in price. This little fact may go
a long way toward explaining why
there is so much concern for the
small investor right now. The ex-
change of Liberty bonds in any con-
siderable amount for other paper
would tend to increase their market
price.
Another important fact is that the
small investor has just as much to
| fear from respectable Wall street
ventures in the realm of stocks and
bonds as from the wild cats, because
they are so respectable" and plausib-
| " safe. The regular Wall street
game is to get the small investors
biting well throughout the country
until vast issues of bonds and stocks
are in their hands at high prices.
Then the market suddenly breaks.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-01-03
OF the P. P. p, why he waits
nearly four months"

OF the P. P. p, why he waits
nearly four months"
1t is reported that the Pioneer Press
is the official paper Of the county, yet
after so long a time has elapsed that
the business of the county has been
forgotten, the minutes of the Board
of County Commissioners are then
printed. The delay was not unavoid-
able; and it is the intention of the
law that the minutes of the board be
printed Immediately.
When it comes to being secret and
uncommunicative, some of the en-
ployes at the court house have the
world beat. Some of the ''birds''
think that because they are on the
county payroll that they have vest
ed right in Sheridan county that 9th
er people are bound to respect. How
ever, lets be hopeful. There viii
some day be a change.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-01-03

The historians have way of say
ing that such and such prophet
"flourished" in such and such cen.
tury. What they really mean is tex
listed with more or less difficulty" for
in ancient as in modern times only
false prophets fourished. False pro-
phet too, by the way, is the scriptlr.-
al name for what we now recognize
as lickspittle politician.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-01-03

It's peculiar coincidence, isn't ii,
the clever way the canvassing board
handled the recent canvass of the
votes? The law provides that. the
poll books and election returns must
be brought before the canvassirg
board and there opened before the
board and the public. However, when
the election returns were brought in
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-01-03
Why Jump County Agents.

(From the Montana Equity News)
In many instances county agents
and counts boards of commissioners
do not seem to hitch and for the most
part the grievance is generally based
upon desire Of the county agent &c
work with and for the farmers
That this conditions has already
caused considerable trouble is pretty
generally known. In Custer county,
Warrington was apparently the victim
of business interests that resented his
activities in behalf of the farmers,
then there came a western county
that disposed of the agent without
much good reason and now comes
Sheridan county.
1t seems though that the commits
sioners in Sheridan county hit the
wrong bunch of farmers and there
promises to be something doing. The
Producers News, a farmer-owned Pc
per published at Plehtywood uncov-
cred a bit of savory news wherein it
was shown the farmers were made the
victims in a gopher poison deal. "
The Producers News didn't tell
where the information came from,
nor did the editor mince any words in
letting the public know about it.
Somehow or other the conclusion
has - reached that the board Of
count commissioners suspected
Coun'~ Agent Anderson of being the
inforrrant and Immediately set out TO
"get h.rr" accomplishing their pm
pose by fig him on short notice.
Just what aroused the board of
county commissioners to this action is
q matter Of Mcclure, but there
seems to be 9cr-o that have pretty
good ideas ling the matter, in
Guiding the editor of the Producers
News, who seems to have the faculty
Of uncovering something every nov,
and then that seems to cause the
county commissioners decided feel
ing of discomfort.
As said before the farmers in this
instance have, through the Farm Bu-
reau, started something and through
it comes the question as to whom,
the county agent is intended to salts
~.
To the writer's understanding the
county agent is placed in a community
to aid in the development J of rural
welfare. He is supposed to work with
and for the farmers. Surely he Is
not placed there to solicit orders fog
the snall-town dry goods store, nor
to boost the business of the local
banker, but rather to aid the farmer
10 make, the farm better place to
live on. Just how far he may go in
this is matter that must be settled
between the farmer and the county
agent.
But there are some who apparently
think that the scope of the work
should be largely regulated by towns
people who have not a great deal in
common with the farmer. This is a
mistake, and as long as any board
Of county commissioners or anyone
else in authority allows work among
farmers to be influenced by other IN
terests there is certain to be fric-
ton
We believe the county agent is here