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Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18
IS HAVING
 INCREASE IN PRICES

London, Feb. 17.-An actual and prospective increase in prices an- nounced today includes one penny to TWO pence increase on cigars and an ounce of tobacco, and a half penny increase on a package of ten cigar ettes. Sewing cotton is increased 2 S-4 pence reel.
 The recent increase in the price of petrol, which caused one day s strike Of taxicab drivers. Is ~xpacsed to bring an announcement of higher 1ares tomorrow, when the home sec fetary will receive a deputation rem resenting the taxi men.
 In consequence of the increase in railway freights, the belief Is grow ine that parcels post charges will be ralsed in the near future. The DOS tai employees demand higher wae,ss lnpoivIng my an aggregate of about fl, oOV'VVO pounds sterling yearly. and if IS expected that haIfpenny extrs VIII be placed on letter postage.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18
sToWAWAY LONGS TO
 RETURN TO FRANCE

New York, Feb 17.-Freddie Mack Raimond, 16 year old stowaway, sue cessful in his, fourth attempt to get into. this country when he came with returning American troops last Sep tember, today applied at Ellis Island for passage home to France" Mus tering out of his army friends and the breaking up of the war canton ments was too much for him. He was homesick, he said.
 ''Fhe camps are going" he com plained. I want to go home, to. my native France. I love the doughboys and I'm proud to wear the uniform they gave me, but now believe, I shall be better off where I belong. Please send me back
 His passage will be arranged on an American ship sailing for a. French port soon, it was stated at Ellis Isl- and. The boy will be kept there un- til he leaves. His eyesight is poor, the result of a .gassing.. he received at Soissons with the American troons.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18
ARREST OF AN ARSON
 SUSPECT IN NEW HAVEN

New Haven. Conn, Feb. 17.-Thom- as P. MoDonough, 8. who says he is an Englishman, and came here re- gently. was arrested in downtown restaurant tonight and locked up on suspicion of being connected with in cendiary fires which have caused heavy losses here in the last few weeks. McDonough is five feet, three inches tall and weighs about 90 pounds.
 Fire department estimates show that damage from fires. in downtown in the last six vroels bas exceeded S4oO. O00. or more than ,s tbs entire city fire losses for last vaar The police and fire department heads have expressed the oninio,5 that. pyromaniac was at work
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18
HOOVER IS AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT
 OPERATION OF RAILROADS AND SHIPPING

Ills American Institute of Mining Engineers That "No Scheme of Political Appointment Has Ever Yet Been De vsed That Would Replace Competition in Its Selection of Ability and Character"-That No Government Under Pressure of Political Sectional Interests Could Be Free From Local Pressure to Conduct Unwarranted Services in Industrial Enterprse-States That While the Consum CT Would Pay For Inefficient Management of Railroads the Burden of of Inefficient Handling of Shipping Would Fall on the National Treasury-Asserts Labor Unrest Would Be AIayed by Restoration of Co-Operation Be tween Employer and Employees in Production That Was a Binding Force When Our industries Were Smaller
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18
JoHNsoNs NAME ON
 REP. BALLOT IN NEBRASKA

Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 17.-voters, ne- tltIons to Dlac ethe name of Senator Hiram W. Johnson of California on lne fepuoilcan ballot in the Nebraska 70 were filed with the secretary of state today VI
 Senator -Johnson's name is the sec- ond to be formally presented to fhe secretary as a candidate for the re- publican nomination, petitions on be- nalt of General Leonard Wood having recently been filed. Friends of General John J. Pershing have announced they would take similar action soon. March A is the last day for fling.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18
ALL AMERICANS ESCAPED
 FROM MARASH, TURKEY

Constantinople, Monday, Feb. 16. (By The A. P.)-The American committee for relief in the Near East today re- ceived message dated February 13 from it's offices at Adana, .Asiatfc Fur. key, which. was construed to mean that all the Americans have. escaped, from Marash northeast of Aadan and north of Aleppo) southward to Islahie, which is on the railroad. The message says:
 Information this morning is that the personnel of 1000 refugees retired to Islahie with Colonel Norn1arld There was extreme destitution and many were sick or wounded. There is no information from Aintab or Hadiin. The situationis serious sss :
 Maor David G. Arnold of Providence R. l., managing director of the Am. erican commission for relief ini the Near East, said today that there. were ten American relief workers and six American missionaries at the head quarters of the American board college at Marash The relief workers. he said, included. Mabel H. Power : of North Hero, Vt; Helen Shultz of Reading, Pa. < Minnie B. DougIierty Of Holyole, Mass. and Stanley E. Kerr of Darby, Pa. astss
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18
INDICATIONS IF DEADLOCK ||||
 TIE SENATE ON ARTICLE TEN

Senator Hitchcock Democratic Leader States That the Ke pubHcans Apparently Had Rejected All Compromise Pro- posals on the Subject and That He is Certain the Treaty Never Could Be Ratified Until They Did Compromise Debate is Likely to Continue There Are No Signs of Showdown Immediately yIProposed Adriatic Settie- ment Might Cause Withdrawal of Treaty of Versailles From the Senate = Reply of the Supreme Council to President Wilson's Adriatic Note Being Forwarded
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18
NORTH DAKOTA REPUBLICANS
 RESENT SOCIALIST CONTROL

Bismarck, N. D., Feb. 17.-North Dakota republicans, in state conven- don here today, adopted resolutions urging all presidential candidates moi to file petitions in this state for nri- mary preferential vote. The action was due. according to the resolutions. 10 the dlstressing state situation" i" which includes. it was noted ~the fact that all branches of the state government of North Dakota were taken over two years ago by an or ganization directed by socialists"
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18
MARYLAND REJECTS FEDERAL
 SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT

Annapolis. Md, Feb. 17-rhe Maryland general assembly today de- cisively rejected the federal amend- ment for woman suffrage. In the sen ate the vote was IS against and g for ratification, in the house GA against and 5S for ratification. Big delega- tons of sufrragists came down from Baltimore headed by Mrs. Donald Hooker. The committee on federal relaEAg1 heard both sides.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18

Validation of watered securities, al- legged to be the main object of those seeking return, would mean the subsi- dizing of the railroad industry.
 "The Cummins 4Esch bill, with it's guarantee of earnings. is an invitation to waste and extravaganza"
 Return of the railroads at this time is an imitation to still further indus trial disturbances which are born of labor shortage on one hand and the high cost of living on the other.'
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18
INCREASED COMPENSATION !.
 FOR. DisAREEps SERVICE MEN

washington, Feb. ; IT. = Monlithiy compensatfon rates to disabled sol- diers and sailors would be iIlcreaaed to s10O for siHgl g. men and $128 fDf married men under a bill reported unanimously today by the house ednl cation committed
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18
FAVOR WITHDRAWING THE
 GOVERNMENTS IRISH BILL

London, Feb. 1.-The British labor party delegation which visited Ireland recently has reported in favor of with drawing the governments Irish bill and settling the Irish question from an entirely different standpoint, it was stated this afternoon The delegation is said to have come to the opinion that the problem is as much industrial spolitica1 and that it should be solved by taking both these factors into consideration.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18
Cabled Paragraphs
Reverse for Russian Volunteer Arm,

Reverse for. Russian Volunteer Army.
 London, Feb. 1.-The Russian vol unteer army has been forced back to the Sea of Azov with it's troops com pletely disorganized and typhus raging among them, according to wireless despatch received here today from Moscow. The bolshevik official com munieation says the Red troops have captured several positions from 20 to 36 miles northeast of Stavropol
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18
REVOLUTION HAS BROKEN
 OUT IN VLADIVoSToK

London, Feb. 17-Revolution has broken out in Vladivostol6. Nilzolsk. Yenishiesk and Blagovestchensk, where all authority now is in the hands of the provisional government, whose program is in favor of union with soviet Russia. says 9 soviet wire less contamination received from Moscow.
 The despatch adds that Red troops have entered. Tirasool. 7s miles north west of Odessa.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18

It is far easier to criticize the sns11 mistakes. of others than to avoid mak- ing few large ones yourself.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18

Sugar trading on the New York Cof- fee and Sugar Exchange reopened
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18

It. sometimes happens that a mans house is his mother laws castle.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18

Owing to a strike of harbor employees at Amsterdam and Rotterdam, Amer ican vessels were advised to avoid temporarily, these ports.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18

Coast guard cotter. ltasca reported by radio she was 100 miles east of Cape Lookout iightship towing a dis sbled stealss into port.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18

Premier MiiIeeand said he had no information on President Wilson's re- ported Intention to ask the recall of Ambassador sJlisserand.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18

, Organization. of German electric slainp concern, "Osram Works Ltd"
 was announced in report to the de-
 partment of commerce.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18

Rand gold mines of South Africa an nounced the output at 670,50S ounces in January, compared with 676,S19 ounces in December,
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18

Lou TIsn5 Tsisna, Chinese minister of foreign affairs; and Chen Lee, vice minister, resigned. according to re- ports. to the state department.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18

James Garland Pollard, of West vir- ginia, was appointed federal trade commissioner and his nomination was sent to the senate.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18

Thirteen students at Yale university volunteered to take carbonmonoxide gas tests to determine the proportion Of automobile; exhaust gases which safely may be in the air of the pro- posed Hudson vehicular tunnel.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18

The crueihIe St.eI company an- nounced today that. the stockholders had unanimously approved an increase from $25,Ooo 900 to $75,OOO,OoO in com mon stock.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18

Commercial relations of Britain in Russia are facing a serious menace through the existence of quantities of counterfeit British bank notes in Rus sian territory.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18

Pink paper similar to that found
 June ? last, when. attempts were made to blow up the homes of Attorney Gen.
 eral Gregory and other prominent men lin Washington, was found in raids on Reds in Paterson, N. J.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18

Marshall Foch declared, in an inter- view in Paris, the proposed alliance between France and England is an absolute and imperative necessity" for France.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18

Reports that Eari Reading would re- sign as lord chief Justice and accept tho British ambassadoIship at Wash ington were not confirmed in London.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18

The senate adopted the Mcclellan resolution directing the shipping board to delay temporarily the sale of form CT German vessels.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18

In order to encourage Belgian plant CTS to increase their beet root crop sowing. the government fixed the price factories must pay to growers at 125 francs a ton.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18

William G. Young. general superin- fendent of the New York and Stam- ford Railway Company, who has been connected with the line for 21 yjears, will resign on March 1.e
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-27
WOULD CUT PAY ROLL $4,000. 900.
Congressman Wood Prepares Bill Re
dueing Employees 10000.

WASHINGTON, Nov. GA cut OF
s36.UO0 100 should be made IN The 1egisla-
tive, executive and Judicial estimates
which include salaries of the majority of
the. government employees in Washington.
said Representative William r. Wood of
Indiana, recently. Mr.. Wood announced
a day or so ago the 1900 employees in
Washington should be reduced TO $4,000
and even less if possible
The bill embOdying the estimates is
now in charge Of a subcommittee headed
by Mr.. Wood, who SAYS that estimates
which have been handed to him total
something like Sl36N00o00. He wants
this sliced down to 500. 600. 600, especially
In view of the fact that the current bill
provides only $l22 100000, as against the
new estimates which appropriate money
to run until June 80, 1922.
Without single exception every di-
vision or Hreau appearing before us
asks for increases in salaries. With but
two exceptions, and these very small di-
visions or bureaus, the officials are asking
for increases in personnel" said Rep
resentative Wood Il cannot understand
this. We have today in Washington. I'M
der the civil service. something over 90
600 employees and between 5000 and 5000
unclassitied making total of $4,000 gov
ernment employees here. Before the war
there were about 81, 600. 1t is idle for
any one to say that there is now three
the war.
There are % or 80 independent bu.
reaus, meant by the law that created
them to be merely for the war emergency,
that are trying to in udcetosucmfwyp
that are trying to induce us to make them
permanent, and to get a larger force than
before the war" Mr.. Wood explained.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-27
SOCIAL WELFARE SEAT.
Senator Kenyon Proposes to Create Ne"
Cabinet Position.

WASHINGTON. Nov. 27.-Creation OF
a department Of social welfare to. safe
guard aud promote the social welfare OF
the people of the United States Is pro
vided for in a bill prenared by Senator
Kenyon Uowa) for Introduction at the
coming session of congress. The head OF
the department would be a member OF
the cabinet.
The new department would have trans
ferred to its jurisdiction the public health
service and the hygienic laboratory; now
under the treasury; the bureau OF edn-
cation. from the department OF interior;
the children's bureau, women's bureau;
the bureau of industrial housing and
TRANSFORMATION. the United States, EN-
ployees' commission, now under the labor
department. and the office OF home eco
Monies. from the department OF agrleai-
ture. - -. I,.,s-
dent to transfer TO the department. at
any time the whole or any part OF any
bureau. Office or other division or branch
Of the pubIic service engaged IN work re-
Iating to the social welfare OF the people.
An assistant of social welfare, to be
anpointed By the president, at salary
Of 5000 year. also is provided IN tue
hill
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-27
TO ACT JOINTLY ON
TAX AND TARIFF
Senator Curtis Wants Sem
ate and House Committee
to Revise Both
WOULD RAISE
BILLION BY TARIFF

This Would Be Emergency Measure to
BE Reduced Later Thinks Another
Billion Could Be Saved In Govern
ment Expenses.
WASHINGTON, Nov 27.-The posi-
ton that the tariff and tax legislation
should be revised at the same time is
taken by Senator Curtis of Kansas. Re-
publican whip, and a member of the SEN
ate finance committee.
The senator advocates the appointment
of joint committee of three members of
the senate finance committee and tbfee
members from the house ways and means
committee to conduct hearings on tariff
and tax legislation. He believes the COM
pleted bills should be ready to report to
the floor of the house, where the legisla-
ton must originate, by an early date in
the summer, asserting that special ses-
sion will be called in March or April
In explaining his recent prediction that
a tariff bill could be framed which would
yield Sl000,0O0,000 annually as against
500, 900, 900 during the last fiscal wear
Senator Curtis says he meant such a
measure would be OF an emergency char
acter and that it might be found advisable
later to reduce some of the duties.
"'While it has been customary for the
house and senate committees to work
independently in the past, | believe the
work could be greatly expedited if an ar
rangement were made for Joint hearings
OF course, the revenue pills must origi-
nate technically III the house
In drafting tariff bill. | believe full
protection should be given to agriculture
and also to such industries as the dye,
chemical, glassware, magnesite and pearl
button industries. These are covered in
bills already pending before the senate.
but there is little likelihood that any
Of them can be passed at the short SEES
sion.
Il have not given the matter close
enough study to know whether it would
be possible to repeal the excess profits
tax and not provide a substitute If
this could be done it would be so much
the better. This might be possible if we
get $700,00O.000 additional annually from
import duties and if reductions are made
in government expenditures and no at
tempt Is made to pay off the maturing
obligations such as treasury certificates of
Indebtedness and Victory notes
I wouldn't be at all surprised if we
could save nearly 81 600 900 900 annually
in expenditures of government depart
ments.s This would mean radical re-
duction in the number Of government EN-
ploycs.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-27
WHEAT BELOW $3.50.
Banking Situation in North Dakota ana
Rreak i'm Cotton Affects Price.

CHICAGO. Nov. 2I.-ln genera az
rush to sell. wheat tumbled yesterday 20
beiow 81. 30 a bushel, the first time since
the World war, The immediate bear .;t
factors were the strained banking SIT
nation in North Dakota, break In the
cotton cotton market and a new downturn IN n
foreign exchange. British buying OF OF
wheat took place on the down swing or
nrices. but rallies failed to last, and the
market fell as low as s. AZ o5 a e4sneI
for March delivery. Opening quotaIL L,o.
varied from 3A cents to ; cents lower.
Z Corn or weakened with wheat, opening
ve-eighths to ~ cents lower so mal9at
reacted little. but then sagged again.
Oats started one-eighth to fiye-cighths
cents down. ...,,,1
anced to some extent in the provision
market the bearish effect of grain de-
cline. ~, ...,o4 ,,.os
off eight cents from Wednesday $ CLOSE aS
Prices rallied toward noon. Wnea I at,
vanced 31b cents, corn , cents and oats
slightly.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-27

By DAVID LAWRENCE.
Especial Despatch to The Reformer
CODyTjoht 1920
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-27
REFUGEES ARE BETTER.
Several Thousand Have Been Removed
from Over Crowded Ships.

ONSTANTINOpLE. Nov. 21.-Ihe
situation of the refugees here graduliS
is improving. Five thousand nave peeI
io,t ~ Turkish Thrace and Accommodated
IN BARRACKS 1000 have left for Cat
taro aboard the American ship Victor
and 10000 have been taken to the Is
land of Proti in the Sea of Narmo OF,
enabling cleansing of the ships: Inc
American Red Cross is distributing tea
and bread to the disembarked refugees
Going TO San Stefano. in the western
outskirts of ConstantinOple.
Major Davis, director here OF the
American Red Cross. said today
are using oil our resources to ASSIST th ne
refugees. We can Keep on going until IN,
the latter become self-supportlng Inc
death rate is five per cent: when is ~ nor nor
mpeeS daily.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-27

This Would Be Emergency Measure to
Be Reduced Later Thinks Another
Billion Could Be Saved In Govern
ment Expenses.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-27
REDUCE PRICE OF STEEL.
Independent Concern Reduces Price but
Not Wages.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Nov. 27.-Re-
turn of steel prices to the base estab,
hoard March u. 1919, developed here
YESTERDAY when the Jones & Laughlin
Steel company the largest of the lnde-
ppndent interests, adopted new selling
rates ON certain finished steel products.
This reduction viii not affect the
wages. il was understood. Of the approx
iwatelv $4,000 persons in the company s
The new prices which are effective i'm,
mediately are: Bars 50. structural
shee, 50 A.; plates $2.65; base Pitts
burgh. Adjustments will be made on
the prices for wire and cold rolled steel
products.
III T9Inoc III aInnt
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-27
SINGLE TERM TALK
HEARD IN POLITICS
Senator johnson Wants to
Enter Presidential Con-
test in 1924
HARDING'S CABINET
WILL BE AFFECTED

Politicians Want Men Who VIII Help
In Reelection of Harding Can Get
Nomination If He Uses Government
dob Holders.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-01-22
BELGIUM SKETCHES
Your Home and
Theirs
BY Katharine Egsleston Roberts.
tcopyright. 1890. western NeNspaper unionl

SNN "SShSIu newspaper OnlODl
I've been in your home and, of
course. | know there are no others Just
like 1t. Similar? Yes, but there's a
difference. you know. Consequently,
I'm not going to say anything more
about your home; I'm going to talk of
their homes and you may draw the
comparison for yourself if you want to.
There are three kinds of homes in
Belgium. the n in the comparatively
undestroyed city that the German
tried to keep for himself; the home in
the shelled and fired village, and the
home in No Mans Land. Oh, yes,
there are homes there. But wait, we
cannot be omnipresent; we must visit
one place at a time.
This city looks pretty well, doesn't
it? A building once stood in place of
those ~signboards, but, unless you look
at the plaster hanging to the adjacent
houses you would never know. Things
have been cleaned up quite thoroughly
since that happened at the beginning
of the a Except to a few people,
those boards talk only of the things
they advertise. There's the house to
which we are going-that one where
the painter is working on the door.
Queer, isn't it, how all of the houses
look alike here?-narrow, of white
plaster with a sharp pointed roof.
This door is like all the other doors,
too. 1t has the same sort of dents
made by butts of German guns de-
handing entrance; the same kind of
misttting wooden letter slot to replace
the copper n the Germans took the
same pattern of ugly iron door handle
substituting for the old one of bronze.
is why the painter is hired, even
II necessities must be sacrificed, to
paint over that letter slot so that it
won't speak so e%loquently, to cover
those shrieking scars, to hide the mis-
cry OF the people behind the locked
doors of their homes. So far you have
seen only n side of the door-the
But the people are expecting
us and we go into the drawing room.
You must not notice that the doors
have no knobs. They were brass and
are now sojourning in Germany. Did
you ever get a warmer welcome? l
doubt it. AS We sip our coffee there
is so much laughter and joking that
you scarcely notice the faded places on
wall where the now-despoiled fam
lily portraits and other valuable pic
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-01-22

One cannot work so well to recever.a
explains a youngster who was in army
But how a SC many people live in
such small homes? They can because
they must. The more fortunate ones
must make room for those who have
not been left even the bricks of their
walls.
And now we are reaching No Mans
Land. Truly the name describes II.
As we enter that desolate. deep-pitted
waste. cluttered with splintered bay
onets, broken guns and grinning skulls,
we pass a tiny building made of odds
and ends of sheetiron and on it the
owner, who possesses a grim sense of
humor, has painted flank Cafe-Beer,
Wine and Ale Sold Here"
We make our way gingerly among
the shells that lie about, for sometimes,
you know, some of them are only
camouflaging as buds and. when dis
turbed. voice their protest in a loud ex-
plosion. The mutilated, Ieafless gray
trees look like ghosts. Often we find
beneath them a few crosses and we