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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-06
TodaY's Anniversaries.

179S-Turin and Piedmont were released
to the French by the king of Sar-
dinia.
1S1j-More than GOO persons killed in
the explosion of a powder maya
zine at Dantzig.
1S34-Senator Henry W. Blair of New
Hampshire. who introduced the
first prohibition amendment, born
at Crompton, y. III. Died in
Washington, d. c., March IA
1920.
1SS2-Louis Blanc. celebrated French
politician and historian, died at
Cannes. Born at Madrid, Oct.
20, 1911.
1SS4-Capstone of the Washington mon
ument placed.
1S92-A Greek manuscript of the Cos
pei of Peter was found in a tomb
in upper Egypt.
1905-French senate passed the bill for
the separation of church and state.
191S-King Albert and the Belgian royal
family were enthusiastically vel
coined in Paris.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-06
In The Days News.

DR.. Wilbur F. Crafts, who is ex-
pected to have a voice in naming the
new prohibition commissioner of the
United States, is widely known for his
active leadership in the International
Reform bureau. DIR. Crafts has been a
since he entered the ministry, after be-
ing graduated from Wesleyan. He
served in Methodist, Congregational and
Presbyterian pulpits in Massachusetts,
and New Hampshire cities, in Chicago
and New York. He founded the Amcri-
can Sabbath Union in 1899, and was for
year it's field secretary, lecturing
throughout the United States. For %
years he has been superintendent of the
International Reform Bureau, which he
founded. DIR. Crafts has Travelled widely
in Europe and the Orient, and is author
of voluminous writings upon religious
temperance and sociological topics.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-06
The Hunting Season.
Hartford Courant.)

Unless we are mistaken. Massachusetts
folks will hunt deer shortly for a week,
but the open season for big game is near
an end. Various newspapers are telling
of the results which suggest certain SER
ious reflections.
Just now we are thinking of Maine
wherein the big game season ended Tues
day night and the "Kennebec Journal
for Wednesday throws a little light upon
the results of it when it tells its read
ers that nine persons were killed. 1t
summarizes the matter as follows -
OF the nine persons who lost their
lives during the season, one was killed
by mistake for a deer, three accidentally
shot themselves one was accidentally
shot and killed by bis wife, three were
accidently killed by their companions
and one was killed by the accidental dis
charge of his gun by his dog stepping on
the trigger. During the big game sea
son last year nine persons lost their
lives, one being shot in mistake for a
deer, four accidentally shot themselves
and four were accidentally killed by their
companions.
These persons were definitely disposed
of, but there follows a list of twenty
others who were injured as a result of the
hunting. One was woman resident of
China, of whom the journal" says du-
b1Ously that "she was mistaken for a
deer" Because of this error a surgeon
extracted rifle bullet from her left
arm. Another lady, according to the
same authority, twas accidentally shot
in the evening" Evidently the bullet
then glanced, for her left arm was am
putated. At least six persons were shot
by hunters who mistook them for deer.
Wisconsin excels Maine as fifteen per-
sons were killed in that state during the
hunting season. thirteen dying from shot
or bullet wounds while two were drowned.
The number of wounded was between
twenty and thirty. New York is to be
heard from and the worst is yet to come
in Massachusetts. AS a sport hunting
has some disadvantages.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-06
(Springfeld Republican,


1t is necessary in this country to visit
the small country towns to find cases sim
liar to the one recently noted in the
Reading items of the Woodstock (Vt. }
Standard:
Wade Keyes, Esq, who was unani-
mOusly chosen for Reading town repre-
sentative on election day, is the fifth of
his family name and the fourth in direct
descent to hold that Office from this town.
His grandfather, Solomon Reyes,
served in 1900 and 1910; his grandfather.
Solomon Keyes, jr., in 1888, 1889 and
1919; his father, William Wallace Keyes,
in 1888 and 1899; Washington Keyes
(brother of Solomon, jr.) in 1859 and
1860. This, we think, is rather an I'M
usual happening"
Rather an unusual happening" the
writer of the item says. But not so very
unusual in Vermont then, if it is only
rather" unusual. just how far from the
commonplace it may be it would be inter
esting to know. Presumably in all three
of the northern New England states there
are families in small towns who can point
to records of service in the legislature in
several successive generations. Such in
stances may not abound so much in Mas
Sachusctts, Rhode Island and Connecticut
owing to their more industrial and diver
Sitied population, vet it would be strange
tenn Of representation could not also ex-
hibit some remarkable rural records of
legislative service in single families.
There has been something almost
rhythmic in the service of the successive
generations of the Reading family of
Reyes in the Vermont legislature, and this
may be pointed out because the same thing
could probably be discerned in the legis-
lative records of other old families in rural
in, ho iClo fun
has in most small communities been
passed around" from the very beginning
of things. Everybody in town who could
command respectful attention from the
rural politicians had his turn" at Mont
pelier, or Augusta, or Concord or Boston,
or Hartford. Vermont had not been adj
mitted to the union 10 years when Solo
mon Keyes of Reading appeared at the
state capital. After his one term in 1900
the other leading citizens of the town took
their turn, evidently, until Solomon in the
process of rotation again appeared in 1910
Twenty-eight years elapsed before Solo
mon, jr., reached Montpelier as the repre-
sentative of Reading. He served two
terms running, and got back again 10
years later. His younger brother Wash
ington maintained the family influence by
winning the seat in 1859 and 1860.
Twenty eight more years passed and then
came William and 81 years after William
has come Wade. Reading only needs to
have the Keyes family perpetuated to
have Reyes periodically in the Vermont
legislature to the end of time. One can
be sure of that because Reading is so
much like scores of other New England
towns made in the same mold.
1t is because there are so many Read
ings in Vermont and they have so large
a proportion of the members of the legis-
lature that the proposal to make Vermont
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-06

Today Events

Celebration of st. Nicholas day, which
in Holland corresponds to our Christmas.
The Sixty-sixth congress of the United
States assemblies today for its final ses-
sion.
The supreme court of the United
States reconvenes today after a two
weeks recess.
The annual cotton carnival at Corpus
Christi, Texas, viii be opened today and
continued through the week.
The first of series Of health confer
ences authorized by the International
Health conference at Cannes is to be OPP
ened today in Washington, d. G..
officers of a.; cattlemCn's associations
in u Western states ere to gather to-
day in Salt Lake City for a series of i'm
portant conferences relating to the live
stock industry.
The wedding is to take place in Jeru-
salem today of Edwin, eldest son of Sir
Herbert Samuel, British high commits
sioner to Palestine, and Hadassah, daugh-
ter of Rev. Mr.. GrosOvsky.
Sir Auckland Geddes, the British am
bassador, and other speakers of note are
to address the convention of the Amer
lean Farm Bureau federation which is
to begin its sessions today in Indian.
apolis.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-06
MOUNTAIN SHEEP IN WINTER.
Ranges Near the Summit Usually in the
Coolest of Weather.

THE ewes while the lambs are quite
young stay near the more inaccessible
cfags and on the slightest alarm take
their younr where even bear or noun.
tain lion would hesitate to follow, and
where it would be almost impossible for
man, running along narrow lodges only
a foot or two wide and these covered
with loose stones, with towering cliffs
above, and perpendicular walls for hun
dreds of feet below, with as little con-
Germ as a squirrel would along the
branch of a tree" writes Charles l..
Smith in an article entitled The Rocky
Mountain Sheep at Home in Boys Life
for November. .-.
But as the lambs grow stronger and
older the mother leaves the fastness of
these inaccessible craEs and works lower
down along the mountain slope, where
at or near timber line she joins the rest
of the band and they put in the rest of
the summer in little herds varying in
number from four or five to 40 or 30,
until snow falls, then they leave their
summer range in the timber and seek
the western and southern slopes, where
the snow by the prevailing winds of win
ter has blown from the face of the NOUN
tain aud has been carried across ID. the
eastern and northern sides and there de-
posted in great heaps. 80
These winter ranges ARE near the
summit of the mountain as rule and
are the most exposed places in the whole
country. The sleeps winter food con-
siSts of a short woody bunch grass, that
grows scantily in the rocky soil When
the wind fails to blow the snow away
until it is crusted the sheep are COM
PEELED to go elsewhere in search of food.
In September when it is warm and rain
ing in the valley below it is 50 cold on
these submits that. wet. clothing will
freeze stiff on ones body in a few min
utes. What the difference in tenipera-
ture really is ! have never tried TO as
certain, but judge it would be in the
neighborhood of 81 or 40 degrees If
the difference is as great when it is 35
or 40 below in the valley, what must it
blowing? Yet the sheep seem as uncone
cerned and as comfortable 4assif it was
summer. Some will be playing, others
digging the short grass from the snow,
while others win be lying down and Eli
appear to enjoy themselves Immensely"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-06

In the recent discussion of the proposed
moves of the Lords Day Alliance, the
writer of a letter to one of the New
York newspapers hits on truth when
he says: IF you tell a small boy that
he may NOW the lawn on condition that
he behaves well, the grass will be kept
in more or less well trimmed condition.
Tell him he has to do it and the result
will be a Versailles conference between
dad and son, probably in the woodshed.
The Alliance is telling the people that
they must cut the lawns of their religion
and the people will doubtless reply that
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-06
MONDAY. DECEMBER 6, 1920.
ABOLISH SPECULATION.

Relief from extortionate profits by
small coterie of food spectators is prom
ised the producer and consumer by the
bill prepared by Senator Capper and to
be introduced today in congress. As
told by the news dispatches this bill i'm
poses a tax of ten per cent on all con-
tracts for future delivery, except when
made BY farmers, dealers or manufac3
turers who are buying and selling for
actual delivery. 1t is to be hoped this
is only the first step in such legislation
because there are many other commodi-
ties subjected to extOrtiOnate speculation
and enormous increased costs to the con-
sumner. 1t really is battle between
the farmers and city spectators.
The extent of speculation in the nee
essaries of life is indicated by the state
ment of Senator Capper that on the
Chicago Board of Trade alone more wheat
was sold during the month of October
than the entire crop raised in this coun-
try this season. Only about one per
cent of this trading is for actual deliv-
cry. He says that brokers and com
mission houses have cleared up over
100000 in margins and commissions
and that lambs specializing in that mar
ket have lost over $100,O00,O00 in the
last 90 days. This must all be paid by
the consumers of there products. What
the losses and profits of spectators in
other ccnters are can only be guessed at.
Testimony at the hearing on coal prof
iteering in New York tends to show that
the people of New England are paying
this year $17,OOO,OOO graft on anthracite
coal. 1t is safe to say that the con-
sumers and producers are paying bill
| lions of dollars annually to spectators,
a large proportion of whom do not pro-
duce or distribute a dollars worth of
the commodities in which they specu-
late.
! 1t is not known how many persons are
engaged in this Legitimate business but
the number is small when compared with
consumers. 1t may be advisable for con
gress or the department of commerce to
collect information regarding the number
of spectators, the volume of business
they do and the amount of profiteering
they exact from the public. Such in
! formation would show the people how
small a proportion of the public is rob-
bling the whole mass of producers and
consumers and show them the injustice
of the system. 1t would also show how
unnecessary it is to legitimate produc-
ton and distribution of the necessities
of life.
The battle against Legitimate specu-
lation has opened and it is hoped it will
be fought to a finish. The stopping of
illegitimate speculation in farm products
will do more for the farmer than any
proposed loan of S6O,OO0,OOO for hold
ing products for higher prices; and will
bring the costs of living to a more just
and permanent basis. If congress de-
sires to render real service to the people
it will push this fight against illegitimate
profteering to the limit.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-06
they are perfectly capable of doing ii
how and when they please"

1t is said that the Maine legislature
will be asked to vote upon a bill to for
bid the wearing of high-heeled shoes, the
trainers of the bill calling it a measure
for the promotion of public health. Per-
haps it is well that women will occupy
legislative seats more or less in the fu-
ture as voting upon what the feminine
sex is or is not to wear is bound to be
somewhat bewildering to the average
state asSemblyman.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-06

The Reformer lie on sale every evening by
the following news dealers;
BrattleborO, Brattleboro News Co, C.. W
cleveland, s. L. Pr1rinten (Estsyville)
Brooks House Pharmacy. Aliens Depot News
stand, Gilbert ]. Pollica, 2T South Main St
Fort Drummer .districtJ.
West Brattleboro, J. L. StoskvaIl
East Dummergton. N. z BrowA-
Putney, M G. Williams.
Newfane, N. III. BstchaId@f.
West TownEhend, G n Grout
Jamaica, r ] DaRKstt.
South Londonderry, F. b Tyler,
South Vernon, z. B. BuHum.
WorthAeld. Mass Thompson Bros.
West Chesterfield, ". h, Mrs. w. Btr$Stsr.
RinSdale, W. Il, w. Fl. Lyman.
Greenfield, Mass, Greenfield News Co
Greenfield, MAS. C. A. Hays
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-06
The Lure of High Wages.
Rarre Times.l

There are reported to be $4,000 per-
sons in Bridgeport, Conn, out of a job
at the present time with prospects of the
number being doubled before Jan. l..
No doubt a considerable number of the
unemployed are persons who left their
steady jobs in some small community,
perhaps here in Vermont. to take a
chance on a highly paid but uncertain
work. In most instances the old jobs
in the small communities are filled, and
the persons who left them are seriously
handicapped. The lure of high wages
is oftentimes as deceptive as the lure
of big financial returns.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-06
Little Benny's
Note Book !,
By LEE PAPE.

1 was starting to study my lessins and
wishing / was finishing them, and pop
was .reeding the spoarting page, and some
of the fellows started wisseling Tor me
outside, me saying, Hay pop If hurry
up and finish studying my lessins can l
go out and play with the fellows vile!
Yes, sed pop. Me thinking. G. And
pritty soon i sed, All throo, pop, I'm
going out now.
Hold on, hold on, Suppose you let me
heer you say your lessins ferSt, sed pop,
and l sed, Aw @ pop you dident say
enything about heering them, and pop
sed, We'll I'm saying something now:
All rite, heer me say my, history, | sed.
History being the Ony thing ! knew,
and pop sed, I'm doing this, Ill heer you
say your joggriffy, give Inc your list OF
joggriffy questions.
Wich / did, thinking, Heck. G.. and
pop sed, Wat are the boundrys Of AT
ricka?
Sir? I sed, and pop sed, Dident you
heer the question? and 1 sed Yes sir,
and pop sed, Well anser 1t.
Africka is cheefy bounded by water,
[ sed, and pop sed, Eny partickler vat
Sir? 1 sed, and pop sed, Cut out the
Africka, and / sed. Well, its ony partly
| bounded by waiter because if it was
bounded all GROUND by waiter it would
| be island.
| And if it was bounded all GROUND BY
air it would be an airship / sippose,
| sed pop, wat are the principle exports Of
| ChinaY 81 q
Sir? I sed, and pop sed, Wat did I
| tell you about that sir stuff and fssed,
| The principle exports of China are Chi
neez and china ware. aT
I That's plenty, not to say too mitch .
now get to werk and study your lessins,
| sed pop. ~ ~
WITCH / did.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-06

a disgrace to the country. Subscribers
to newspapers and other periodicals are
entitled to some consideration. To re-
ceive a newspaper days or weeks after
its publication instead of hours or days,
according to distance, is entirely unnec-
essary and unjustiiable. Publishers
have been at the mercy of the Burleson
regime with no redress and their sub
scribers have been shamefully treated so
far as service goes. The handling of sec
ond-class mail matter since the beginning
of the war up to the present time is
perhaps the worst exhibition of ineffi-
cheney that any department of the pres
ent administration has made and that
is saving q great deal.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-06
Today's BIRTHDAYS.

Charles s. Thomas, United States sen
ator from Colorado, born at Darien, Ga,
II years ago today.
Atlee Pomerene United States sena-
tor from Ohio, born in Holmes county,
Ohio, 81 years ago today.
Herbert Edwin Hawkes., dean of Co
lumbia university, born at Templeton,
Mass, As years ago today.
Itt. Rev. Granville Hudson Sherwood,
Episcopal bishop of Springfield, H.,
born at Elgin, Ill, AZ years ago today.
William s. Hart, one of the most
widely known of motion picture actors.
born at Newburg, n. Y, Al years ago
today.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-06

September state" again is likely to be
elected in September, as Names still are
Vermont was a barometer" state in the
politics of presidential years. 1t was one
of the Old-time distinctions that Vermont
has missed since the abolition of the Sep
TENDER elections. All the members from
a score or more of Readings will probably
help to revive an old custom now much
valued at home, apparently, in its la
mented absence
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-06
TO TEE sUpsCRnxRa.

II 10 the aim of the management Co Seears
eficiSnt servics In the delivery of the paper
each night, and It solicits the cooperation of
be given of each failure to recslys the paper
on the morning following tha omission, in
person, by telephone postal card, thus sa-
abliHR the cause of tbs error TO be promptly
and accurately dlscoveEsd and the proper rem
edy immediately applied Il IL only by this
method that the publiEbsr can secure the de-
sired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-06
TO ADVERTISERS.

Transient advertising-Run of paper. % cents
inch for first insertion, 80 cents al zach
for each subsequent insertion Limited space
on first page at double rates.
Space rates application.
Classified advertisementS-Fivs ssnts q line
first insertion with 50 per eeAt discount for
each Subsequent insertion without change of
order.
Reading Notices-Twenty cents per line first
insertion with 80 per cent discount for eseh
Reading notices are published at foot Of iossl
itemA
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-06

In announcing that homemade mince-
meat and Christmas buildings favored
with alcoholic liquors are liable to seiz-
urc as a violation of the prohibition laws,
the government seems to assume that
we have the favoring on hand.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-06
Mus. Be qualified.

According to morning paper am
other antarctic expedition Is to be}or-.
gained very shortly. We understand
that only those who can stand north.
ern wind on all four sides need apply.
Punch. London.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-06
None Too High.
BARRE Times.

The New York man who got eighteen
and one-haf years in prison for selling
wood alcohol. which caused the deaths
of a hundred persons in three states,
was not the beneficiary of markdown
sale. Nor was the penalty any too high
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-06
Laws for the Cimex Lectularius.
(NewpOrt Standard)

The United Commercial Travellers are
going to ask the New Hampshire legis-
lature to pass a law prescribing that
sheets for hotel beds shall be nine feet
long. Now if the legislature could be
persuaded to pass a law forbidding bed
bugs the right of eminent domain in
these self-same beds, what q comfort these
L. c. It's could enjoy in sleeping off the
might before :"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-06
What He Meant.

It is probably unnecessary to ex-
plain that the druggist who displayed
a sign. Say it. with brick" in bis
window, was referring to ice cream
Lynn Item.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-06

Sympathy may be due those potato
growers who refuse to sell their crop at
the low price of so cents a bushel. But
the ultimate spud consumer thought he
needed some a year ago when he was
forced to pay 1885 a bushel.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-06
pidn,t 1anpen, AnvMay.

Author Cooking up from writing)-
''Who was it said: After me the del
uge'?" Friend-"Hanged If 1 know. 1
never pay attention to those weather
prophets" Boston Transcript. -
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-06
Some Name

The full name of thesPerslan poet,
Omar Khayyam, was Ghiyath ad Din
Abul Faith lunar ibn IbrahIm al Khay.
yami.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-06
Publishers and Postal Service.
(Greenfield Gazette and Courier. !

NUFtenheIu Uazette and OOufler.J
Publishers throughout the length and
breadth of the United States will be
sOrely disappointed if the new admins
tration at Washington does not do some
thing to remedy the postal situation. Not
only are many of the regulations regard
ing zoning glaringly unjust, but the slow
ness in handling second-class matter is
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-06

The holdup by federal officials at Saa
Francisco of a $4,000 shipment from
Shanghai of colored water labeled whis-
key, ought to please even the "wets."
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-06

Does the law forbid elders freezing p
Manchester Union.
No, neither does it object to your using
the part that freezes.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-06
That Elusive Elf, Opportunity.

II that sensitive elf. Opportunity.
comes knocking at your door, don't
wait a minute; let him In, or he'll new
or seek you more.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-06
One Year Ago Today,

Supreme council demanded that Ger
many sign the protocol.
British parliament passed measure
giving India liberal form of sef-govern-
mPnt.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-06
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