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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-23
Signing Letters.

When you get a letter signed 81. NJ.
Jones'" you reply to it with a Dear
Sir" If you wrote dear madam, Jones
business man you were.
But, if, as so often happens, your let
ter was from Julia NJ. Jones-and you
wrote back to a Dear Sir, the chances
are that she would be gratified. 1t is
time for this stupid and conceited atti-
tude of men to be abandoned. There is
no more reason why a man should OBJ
ject to being taken for a woman $50 long
as the distinction exists) than there is
for woman to be pleased with being
taken for a man.
This is the broad and general situa-
ton of correspondence, but there are
further details. 1t may be that ~. NJ
Jones Julia for short is the daugh-
ter Of Henry Jones and it may be that
she IS the wife of William Jones. After
you have defined 81. NJ" it is necessary
to know whether to address Miss" Julia
or Mrs Julia. Here you are again up
against it. If you Just up and call her
;iuIla you are in danger of being
charged with undue familiarity. If you
call her Miss" and she is married, she
doesn't like it; and, if you call her
Mrs. when she is only Miss it may
or may not be acceptable.
The moral of it is that correspondence
should be intelligently conducted and
IetterS should be signed in full-not 81
NJ. but flames NJ, or "JuIia NJ.
and not Julia NJ" but Miss or Mrs.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-23


Gushing of St. Adams, E. w. Gibson of
Brattleboro. c. VI. Graves of Bennington
H. X. Darling of Chelsea, and J. f. Pid-
dock of Saxtons River are said to be aft
er it. The coIlectorship now pays 5000
a year. one of the highest salaried polit-
ical plums to be had in the state"
The collectorship of internal revenue
for Vermont pays better than the col
lectorship at st. Adams, 81 500 as we I'M
derstand it, and it may be treated as a
consolation prize.
Meanwhile the position of United
States district attorney, now held by the
Hon. V, A. Billiard, Of Burlington, will
not escape attention. Senator II. b
Amey, of Island Pond, is understood to
be a candidate for this position, while
former Senator II. b. Shaw and Warren
r. Austin, of Burlington. are mentioned
as among the list of availables There is
no lack of good material
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-23

States can turn out toys quite as hand
some and better in many ways than
those Germany produces and there is al
ways a satisfaction in patrOnizing the
industries of our own coultry. Neverthe-
less the indications are that the Ameri-
can manufacturer must compete with
German products and he should bear in
mind that in such competition he can
not expect quite the same margin of
profit that wartime conditions made pos
sible. The employees of such factories can
also contribute their support by giving
a full days labor for a full days pay,
a very important factor in such compe-
titiOn.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-23

Explanations are always in order aft
er any game to show why the winners
won and the losers lost and the Boston
HeraIds opinion of why Harvard wins
at football seems based on sound COM
nonsense when it says: Generally
speaking it is a system of training and
coaching based on the principle that a
winning team must first of all master
the fundamentals of football. The steady
grind upon fundamentals, the rigid i'm
sistence upon an abTolute mastery Of
the common or garden variety of foot
ball before proceeding to any of the new
er frills, is all the Harvard system seems
to be. Apparently it is enough to win
games"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-23

# modern English dramatists. Mr.
Jones began his career as a commercial
traveller, and although he detested bust
ness he was 50 successful that he was
able to marry and settle down when he
was twenty-one. But he had already sue
cumbed to the destinations of the stage,
although he never entered a theateF I'M
til he was IS years of age. After his
first visit to a playhouse he began to
devote all his spare time to the study of
the drama. When he first taught him
self how to write plays, it was his GUS
tom to witness the same piece six nights
4 week in order to learn the technique
His friends say that the secret of his
snccess is thai he has always been lin
lead earnest
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-23
MEANING OF ARTICLE Y.

The decision of the council of the
league of nations ''to confer with tho
various powers with the view of consti-
to hostilities in Armenia" is a mild way
of recommending intervention in Ar
menia for the purpose of maintaining
the boundaries and political independ-
ence of that country. It will give the
world a clear demonstration whether or
not the member nations of the league
are bound to furnish military forces or
financial support to carry out the ruling
of the council.
1t viii be noted that Mr.. Balfour,
representing England, says an appeal
must be sent to the Al states of the
league, indicating that every member is
under obligation in the matter. Mr..
Viviani of France suggests that one ma
ton be designated to take up the "nego-
tiations," apparently the organizing of
sufficient military force to drive the
Turks out of Armenia. UnquestionabIy
this means one nation should do the
work and the other members compensate
it in some way for doing the job.
Whatever the wording of the discus
sion and the resolution, it is apparent
that the world will soon see just what
article 10 means. This is fortunate be-
cause the fact will be established before
the American senate again takes up the
question of ratifying the league covenant
and it will have the fact rather than per-
sonal opinions to work upon
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-23
Today S Events

Centenary of the birth of John w. Ell
lis, distinguished jurist and governor OF
North Carolina.
Rt Rev Edwin S. Lines, bishop of
the Protestant Episcopal diocese of New
ark, is 20 years old today.
The supreme court of the United
States is to adjourn today for a recess
of two weeks over the Thanksgiving hol-
iday.
The steamship Parismina is due to ar
rive at Cristobal today, where President
elect Harding and his party will land for
an inspection tour of the Canal Zone.
Richmond is to be the meeting place
today of the annual convention of the
Virginia State Teachers association, the
sessions of which will continue until Fri
day.
The fall meeting of the board of bish-
ops of the Methodist Episcopal church
for conference assignments and other
business will be held today at Atlantic
City.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-23
Little Benny's
Note Book
BY LEE PAPE.

Last mite we started to eat suppir, being
veel stew with more stew than veel. me
saying, Watts for dizzert, ma?
Well for goodnisS sakes, he's hardly
started his suppir and he wunts to know
watts for dizzert, well for GOODNESS sakes,
sed ma.
He werks fast, that. boy, sed pop, and
my sister Gladdis sed, WY don't you ask
watts for brekfist tOmorro?
Wy don't you powder your nose a little
more so people can see it 3 blocks away
insted of ony blocks? l sed.
Benny, don't descend to the personal,
sed pop, and l sed, Well G, heck, she's
descending to it, amt she?
Eat your suppir, sed pop.
Wich | kepp on doing, wondering how
mulch room to leeve for dizzert insted OF
knowing ixackly like | genrelly do, and
after a vile wat did Nora bring in but a
big glass dish pack full of pruens.
Holey Moses watts that? / sed.
Dizzert, wat does it look like? sed ma,
and | sed, Well gosh G WIZ it don't look
like dizzert, how can pruens look like
dizzert?
There's no law to compel you to eat
them. | believe, Sed ma SOurcastic, and
sed, Well gosh G wiz, ma, if Id of knew
we was going to have pruens insted OF
dizzert / wouldent of left eny room. gosh
q, ma, how can pruens be dizzert? How
can enything you don't like for brekfist
be dizzert?
Do you wunt eny dizzert or don't you :
sed ma.
/ don't call pruens dizzert. sed. WITCH
l don't, and ma sed, Well then leeve the
table, and / sed, Well holey smoake I've
went and left space now l half to fill it
with sumthing so it mite as well be
pruens.
How very considerable of you, sed ma
And she gave me 6 small size pruens try
ing to look like dizzert in a saucer and /
looked at them vile in diskust and then
filled the space with them.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-23

The Reforlner IL en- sale every evening" by
the following news dealers:
Brsttleboro, Brattleboro News &C., e, W
Cleaveland, s. L. Prrinton (Esteyville),
Brooks House Pharmacy, Aliens Depot News
stand, Gilbert ]. Pollica, 2W South Main St
Fort Drummer DISTRICT.
West BrattIeboro, J. L. StoskwsII
East Dummerston, Nj. Z Brown
Putney, NJ. G. Williams.
Newfsns n. NJ, Batchelder.
West ToWnshend, c q GroaL
jamaica, R J. DaEgett.
south Londonderry, F 81. Tyler
South Vernon, e B. Buffum.
North1eld, Nass- Thompson Bros.
West Chesterfield, n. r., Mrs. w, 8tysstsr.
Einsdale, n. H w. II. Lyman.
Greenfield, Mass, Greenfield Nsws Co
Greenfield, Eaaa, c. A. Hays.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-23
TO TIKI SUBSCRIBERS.

II il thu aim of the management 20 sesarr
efficient service in the delivery of the paper
each night, and 1t Eolicits the cooperation Of
subscribers to that end Prompt reports should
on the morning following the omission, in
person, by telephone or postal sard, thus sE-
abliag TIE cause of tho error to be promptly
and accurately discovered and ths proper ram
cdy Immediately applied Il IL only by thia
method that the publisher can EosuTs the de-
sired service
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-23
TOday's Birthdays

Rt. Rev. Edward J. ODea, Catholic
bishop of Seattle, born in Boston, 81
years ago today.
DR.. LOwther Clarke, who retires today
as Anglican archbishop of Melbourne.
born 20 years ago today.
Sir Gilbert Parker, noted novelist
and member of the British privy coun-
cll, born in Addington county, Ontario.
5S years ago today.
George b. Mcclellan, former mavor
of New York and son of the famous I'm
ion general, born in Dresden, Saxony.
90 years ago today.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-23
4 Marvellous
KIDNEY REMEDY
In One Month, "FTuit-a-tiVeS"
Gave Complete Relief
e5S FIRST AVE, Troy, N. Y.

Cos FIRST AVE, TROY, N. I.
''I have been great sufferer
for years with Kidney Trouble and
Constipation. ! tried Fruit q tives'
about a month ago, and with almoss
immediate results. The Kidney
Trouble has disappeared and the
Constipation is fast leaving me-.
HENRY DATER.
Fruit a tives', or Fruit Liver
Tablets, the medicine made from
fruit juices and VdiuabLe tonics, is doing
a wonderful work in bringing health
to sick people.
soc. a box, 6 for $3.50, trial size 25c.
At dealers or from FRUIT-A-TIVES
Limited OGDENSBURG. N. Y.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-23

President-eIect Harding has received
his Thanksgiving turkey from an organ
ization at Chicago and President Will
son has just received a 38-pounder from
a Texas chamber of commerce. Ought
not someone to see that Vice President
elect Calvin Coolidge, son of Vermont,
gets one of the far-famed Vermont tur-
keys for his Thursday dinner?
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-23
Today,s Anniversaries.

1S37-Gas lighting first used in Mont
real.
1S42-Sir William Macnaghten and Cap
tain Trevor murdered, at Kabul
by order of Akbar Khan.
1S52-First gold from Australia arrived
in London.
1S60-Marie Bashkirtseff, celebrated
Russian artist and writer, born
in pultowa. Died in Paris, Oct.
81. 1854.
64-UnsuccessfuI attempt made by the
Federals to blow up Fort Fisher,
\. G.
1SG7-Allen. Gould and Larkin. con-
cerBed in the Fenian, uprising
We're executed at Stafford, Eng
land.
1S71-Governor Baker of Indiana is
sued a proclamation against mob
violence.
191S-General Pershing reported total
casualties in American Expedi-
tiOnary forces as 236,117, includ-
ing 80, 100 dead.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-23

The Housewives league of Toledo
started a bake-yOur-Own-bread movement
in that city and the result was an i'm
mediate drop of bakery bread prices. A
Housewives league is a powerful thing
when it starts something.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-23

4 Burlington news item says that the
L. V. NJ. student who walked from that
city into Canada during an attack of
aphasia, recovered his memory very
quickly when he reached Montreal. Quite
the reverse of so mary Americans, who
Immediately proceed to lose theirs as
soon as they arrive in the Canadian me-
tronOlis.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-23
Why Is 1t?
{ Rutland Herald. }

judge in Chicago fined two women
50 and costs for refusing to remove their
hats in court. 1t has taken half a GEN.
fury of agitation to get women's hats off
in public places. Ever since Eve-or
one of her escendants-contrived the
first war bonnet for the subiugation
Of man. women have resisted the efforts
of reformers to deprive them of their
shreds of cloth. straw, feathers and arti-
fetal fora. Why is it? Has every wo-
man a secret doubt about the impress
siveness of her back hair" or is it just
cussedness?
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-23
Possible Plum PieI.ers
(BurIIngtOn Free Press. J

he preliminary campaign for federal
positions in Vermont under the Harding
administration is thus handled by the
Hardwick Gazette:
The position of collector of customs
has the epeseeet--ef-being much Sought
after, Roger w. Hulburd of Hyde Park,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-23

Numerous articles appearing in print
Of late point to vigorous propaganda on
the part of German toy manufacturers
to assist re-estaPlishing their trade in
his COUNTY, 1t acknowledgements
in the last four years that the United
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-23

The telescope, like many other great
inventions, was discovered by accident.
A spectacle-maker's children were play
ing with some glasses, and after arrang-
ing them in a certain way, saw a dis
tant spire apparently brought before
their eyes They told their father, who
forthwith made crude telescope.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-23
Kember Of Tie AssOeiated Press.

The Associated Press Is exclusively an
titled to the use for publication of ell news
dispatches credited to 1t and not otherwise
published herein.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-23

Arthur f. Crowell of Windsor has a
pair of Belgian hares and reports a fast
growing family The safemale of the
species recently gave birth to nine off
springs and two weeks later nine more
arrived to gladden. their mother The H.
c. of L. has no terrors for Mr.. and Mrs.
Belgian Hare.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-23

The ''crime wave" we hear so much
about must have reached st. Johnsbury
as that town reports 10 robberies in the
busiest part of the town within a week.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-23
VERMONT NEWS.

Harry A Blacla secretary of state,
has suspended indefinitely the automobile
operators license of Leon Shufet of Low
ell whose automobile hit Clifford Ian
there and Woodrow O'Kane at Hyde
Park Sunday. a5 #1Fanf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-23
In the Days News

Henry Arthur Jones, who has come
to America to spend three months in
connection with his plays and picture
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-23

\ false report of President Wilson's
ieath gained circulation.
Eighteen lives lost in the sinking of the
steamship Myron in Lake Superior.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-23

Barre reports a snowfall of IS inches
from the storm of Sunday. Travel by au-
tomobile was practically impossible on
any street but Main, and then most of
the autos travelled along the electric car
roadbed. Garagemen had numerous oc-
casion to respond to assistance calls, and
even with high-powered cars found travel
extremely hard.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-23

the matter with you now all you have
to do is to have your teeth pulled and
eat a couple of yeast cakes.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-23
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itenA
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-23
NEW LOW PRICE FOR HOGS.

Drop Of 80 to so Cents a Hundred In
One Day.
EAST ST. LOUIS, H., Nov. 23-Hog
prices, which had been declining since
Sept. l, hit new low yesterday when
they sold from $3.50 to S11.35, off 80 to
90 cents from Saturdays average.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-23

Lyman Crossman, 10, of Rutland, who
hired horse and wagon from the stable
of John Commit of that city on the pre-
tense of wanting to drive to Shrewsbury
and who never returned. was apprehended
in Springfield. Mass, brought back and
fenced to a wear in state prison for
grand larceny. The young man sold the
horse and it was re-sold twice after that,
so officers had hard time locating it.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-23

Victor Robbins, eight year old son of
was critically injured when he was run
over by a Hood Creamery truck while
coasting. The driver of the truck did
not see the boy until he was 50 near, to
him that he could not stop. He applied
his brakes but the accident could not be
averted. The front wheel ran over the
boys stomach, crushing it and causing
a hemorrhage. His sled was cut in twain.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-02-22
LAUNCH SINKS
OFF PT. INCLIS
Several Persons Including Own
er Crystal River Cedar Mills,
Believed Drowned.

Cedar Keys, Fla, Feb. 21.-Fisher
men arriving here this afternoon re-
ported the power launch Corrine Long
at Crystal river was found sunk off
Port Inglis and that it's small boat
was tied TO the sunken boat but they
made no further investigation.
c. J. Hodes, at IngIis, was communi-
Gated with by telephone and he i'm
mediateIy dispatched a boat down the
Willachoochee river to investigate the
report. Inter it was learned that one
man was seen through the glass win
dow of the launch floating in the wa
ter drowned.
The vessel left Crys tai river
Wednesday for Cedar Keys with sew
eral men on board, among whom were
Mr.. Foster. owner of the Crystal River
Cedar Mills; Melvin Baker, of this
city and Carl Williams of Crystal
river. It is thought that they all
perished in the cabin when the vessel
went down.
Efforts will be made at once by
wrecking crew sent out from this port
to raise the sunken vessel and recover
the bodies of the unfortunate men.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-02-22
REMOVAL SOLDIERS
BODIES EXPENSIV

New York, Feb. 21.-Mrs. A. V.
Denevera OF Chicago, the first Amer
lean mother to bring home the body
of her son who died of wounds in
France, today said there was no ar
rangements by which American par
ents can get a body out of France
except by tipping process. She said
drivers of privately owned automo-
biles in France charge a average of
a hundred and fifty francs to take
American visitors to the American
cemetery. She said the Y. NJ. c. A.
and Knights of Columbus are doing
all possible to aid Americans. When
she got here an undertaken wanted
forty five dollars for CARRYING the
body from the pier to teh Pennsyl-
vania station. Knights of Columbus
furnished a motor truck.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-02-22
JURY HEARS OF
BIG FINANCING
Stacks" of Money Were Spent
in Newberry Election, Ac-
cOrding to Witnesses.

Grand Rapids, Feb. 21.--A repairing
house with Newberry money, passing
out campaign cigars wrapped in tin
foil and ten dollar bills. marking bal
lots for Indian voters and hiring cam
paign workers through a janitor who
holds a bank directorship as a side
line, were points presented in govern
ment testimony today at the New
berry election conspiracy trial.
In addition to this, Henry Acller
testified that Elmer f. Smith. of Kala-
mazoo, an insurance man, told MIN
of beholding more money than he
ever saw in his life; in the Detroit
office of Mark Mckee, law partner
of Paul King, the Newherry cam
paign manager. Smith told Acker he
was repairing his house with New
berry money.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-02-22
WILL
soon ANNOUNCE
Expects to Finish Up Pending
Legislation Before Coming
to Florida to Campaign.
By GEORGE n. MANNING.

Washington, d. c., Feb. 21.-Sena-
tor Fletcher will probably make for
NAL announcement early in March OF
his candidacy to succeed himself in
the United States senate and will go
to Florida as early thereafter as leg
islative conditions and public duties
will permit There are a number of
important matters pending in the SEN
ate and before the committee in which
the senator and the people of Florida
are .vitaIly interested and he wants to
favorably dispose of these before
jumping into the campaign. When he
goes to Florida probably about the
first of April he will enter vigorously
in the campaign and endeavor to meet
all the people of the state and discuss
matters with them.
Senator Fletcher appears confident
of reelection upon his record of
achievement.
He has been endorsed by the Flor
ida Federation of Labor and his posi-
tion on the various railroad bills has
been endorsed by the railroad brother
hoods.
Recently in speaking of his stand in
regard to bolshevism, Senator Fletch-
er declared that he stood for law and
order in this country ana that he
would vigorously oppose any attempt
TO overthrow the government by force.
Union labor generally has endorsed
his stand on the question of radical
ism and the senator believes his po
sition is equally strong with all other
classes because of its justice.