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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
The Stadium Concerts

New York has cause for self-con-
graduation in the success achieved
this summer by the open-air con-
certs in the Lewiston Stadium. "For
the first time since the we'll remem-
bcred days Of Theodore Thomas and
Anton Seidl, New York has been
given the opportunity Of hearing
open-air music Of the first quality,
interpreted by an orchestra equal in
size and technical ability to that of
the great concert halls in winter"
This is the opinion of more than one
judicious friend of the stadium con-
certs.\
A large company of men and
women, able as we'll as unselfsh,
have worked hard. That their eff
forts aresappreciated is proved by
the attendance, which has averaged
5000 a night, on occasions running
up to 5000, 5000, even close to
10000.
The concerts come to an end next
Friday evening, thus bringing to a
close a festival Of music memorable
and admirable in every respect. In
view of difficulties successfully over
come and of the complete success
from first to last, The Tribune begs
to add its own word of hearty con-
graduation to words of like import
spoken by multitudes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
Noise in a Suburb
To the Editor of The Tribune.

~ inc EdlCOr OF Inc tribune.
Sir: I quite agree with B. r.
Blanchard as regards unnecessary
noise in all the boroughs of our beau
tiful city. This din, however, is not
confined to the congested districts of
the city; neither does the auto, bad as
it is, supply all the tumult
Here, for example, in Woodhaven, a
purely suburban district, one gets it in
large doses. During church services
last Sunday the voice of the minister
could hardly be heard at times, due
to the inclosing of porch with wire
cloth by new family of aliens using
hammers incessantly. On the opposite
corner baseball game was in prog
ress, with all the cheers, jeers and un-
Sabbath language included. 1t being
warm morning, the windows of the
church were open, so that all the
racket got through
In addition to these cases, autos
would speed by with sirens hooting
and in one case motorcycle went past
on the sidewalk, with horn BLOWING
and engine unmuff1ed.
When one adds to the above the con-
tlnual noise of the trolley and 81" a
few blocks off, with their fiat wheels
and occasional shrieks of the electric
whistle, even u church service is not
immune from this army of selfish citi-
zens, whose motto, like Absalom's
seems to be "Me first"
But what are we going to do about
1t? And the answer seems to be
Nothing" H. H. ROBERTSON
Woodhaven, N. Y, Aug. II. 1920.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
Radical Logic

tFrom The Philadelphia Record
The British communists have met ano
resolved that there shall be a communs'
dictator of England in order to defes'
the counter-revolution that might "
expected to follow the success OF fne'i
movement. Mr. MacManus told the con-
vention that the establishment OF COM
munism would justify any means EN-
ployed to that end, and il blood "e''
shed it would not be due to the co'A-
munists. but to those who resisted fnep'
at was always the counterrevoiur'op'
aries who were responsible for bloodshs''
since they stood in the way OF revo'a'
ton" Every murdered man, by 'ss
same token, commits SUICIDE because y
would not be killed if he did not naps
on to something that another p'-
wanted.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
The Homeless Ones
(Fron, The Philodclphia Jnouirer

(From The Philadelphia Inqnircr)
The Committee of Forty-eight are still
political orphans. They would not ANAL
gamate with the Farmer-La party at
Chicago, and now they are to reorganize
upon some as yet unexplained basis.
That in these circumstances they can
play any large part in the campaign is
not probable.
Earnest and sincere reformers as most
of them are, they find it difficult, as
such persons usually do, to work in har-
mony with other people. AS party
they seem to have no purpose or oppor-
tunity. They are all dressed up, with no
place to CO.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
Italy's Great Achievement

The courage with which Italy de-
termined to meet her obligations in
carrying her burden is shown by
recent figures of Italian revenue.
During the fiscal year 1919-'2O
Italians have paid in taxes seven
and a quarter billion lire, surpass-
ing by two billion and half the
amount expected and by nearly two
billion the payments of the preced-
ing year.
Italy is old, but in many ways
she is new and immature; she is
rich, but also she is poor. Her prin-
cipal capital is the character of her
people-their industry and their
honesty. The legend that the Latins
are unstable and indolent goes the
way of other myths. Italy has
endured strain we hope this coun-
try will never be called to meet
for one reason because we might
break on it. All things considered,
Italy has fought a Drawer battle
since the armistice than even she
fought before.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
Ponzi and His Dupes

While human nature remains hu-
man nature, men and women may be
found willing to risk money in
schemes which promise easy and
heavy winnings. A generation ago
the Kelley Motor appealed to ven
turesome and speculative souls
Much capital has been enlisted by
concerns claiming to extract gold
from sea water. Once an enterpris-
ing New Yorker sold shares in the
Brooklyn Bridge to newly arrived
immigrants. But these financial
bubbles were picayune when COM
pared with that which has burst in
Boston.
Unt:l careful audit has been made
of Ponzi!s books the number of the
credulous who gave him funds or the
total amount he received will not be
known. 1t is estimated, however,
that perhaps 10000 persons placed
in his hands sums aggregating any
where from $14,000,00O to $20,0OO,-
000-and did so on his unsupported
assurance of enormous profits.
Whether or not Ponzi believed in
his own scheme, he seems to have
experienced little difficulty in find
ing plenty Of people who did believe
in it.
Sympathy goes to these Infortu-
mates, tempered, of course, by
knowledge of the probability that if
pnnzi Ind MT u+n7,chadw +h.,,. -o~ua
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14

one else would have. AS for Ponzi.
it is to be hoped that he will be
given his just deserts. But will this
experience prevent other gullibles
from trusting suave takers who de-
wise variants Of the old familiar
gold-brick game? We fear not--not
while so many would rather win
money than earn it, nor while it is
the steady practice of certain news
papers and magazines to preach the
doctrine that practically all large
fortunes are the fruit of some ille-
gitimate scheme.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14

eminent will go far in treating with
Lenine aad Trotxky. We have faith
that Lloyd George sees the truth as
plainly as any man in the. world /;
we also have faith that the British
democracy in the end will do as
much to defend civilization as any
other in the world. :
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
The Only Difficulty
lFronl The Mil,oonkee santinet1

From The Miiaoaukee SentineD
81 couldn't be anything else than a
great President after your greeting"
Governor Cox told the Dayton folks
after they had Fairbanks and Piclsforded
him around the town. Of course, bar
ring the election of Mr.. Harding, in
which event Mr.. Cox necessarily will
have to confine his greatness to some
other sphere of activity.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
Warfare on the Eastern Front
New York, Aug. IL, 1920.


To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Private advices state that the
Presidents views on Russia have re-
duced Lenine and Trotzky to tears
How can. they carry on war if they
are to be bombarded with words at the
same time?
So they have rent their clothes and
put their heads in the ashpit Ever
victorious America has conquered
again.
1t only remains to make the Presi-
dents views known to the other Rus
SLAMS, who haven't had Lenine and
Trotzky's advantages in an American
school and so can't read.
AS Lenine refuses to lend his movie
house system for their instruction, a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
An Unhealthy City

(Fron The Los Angeles Tinles)
The sale of 10000 barrels of whisky
in Chicago in single day-for medic
inal purposes - would indicate that a
great deal of sickness is expected. The
government is also urged to raise, the
limit on the number of prescriptions
which regular physicians may issue each
month.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14

In the Ohio primaries the total
vote cast on the Democratic side was
approximately $4,000; on the Re-
publican side approximately 275 900.
Yet with the division Chairman
White says he is highly gratified.
How small a Democratic vote did
he expect?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tho Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the
use for republication Of all dispatches credited
q II or no, otherwise credited IN this paper. and
herein
All rights OF republication OF all other matter
hcrcin also reserved.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
A Consistent Policy

iFrom The Kansas CITY Tinles)
Still, considering the War Depart
ments own unpreparedness record, per-
haps its sympathy for slackers is not
altogether inconsistent
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
An Abnormal Town

From The Washington PosD
On the other hand, it will be many
moons before Marion, Ohio returns to
normally.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14

You can purchase merchandise advertised In THE
rRiSuNE with absolute safcty--fer II dlssatisfac-
ton results In any oass THE TRiBUNE guarantees
70 pay your money back upon request No red tape.
No QuibbilnS. We mako good promptly II tho
advertiser docs not.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
SUBSCRIPTION nArEs--sy mail. Including
GUARANTY

Entered At the Postonlce at New York as secon
Glass Mail Matter
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14

Owned ana published daily by New York Tribune
Inc. a New York Corporation. Ogden Reid, presi-
dent; G. Vernon Rogers Vice President: Helen
Rogers REID, SECRETARY. Il. Il, Maxtieid, Treasurer.
Address, Tribune Building. ia Nassau Street. Now
lork. Telephone. Beeknan 5000.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-20
In The Days News. -

Robert Smile, who probably would
succeed Lloyd George as premier in the
event of the formation Of a labor govern
ment in Great Britain, is the acknow-
lodged king Of the British labor world-a
man who wields more powerful sceptre
than many a king And yet, powerful as
he IS nNhis own realm, the world outside
knows little OF him. Forty years ago he
was working as a lad in a Lanarkshire
mine; and ten years later he was appoint
ed secretary to a branch of the Scottish
Miners Union, Of which he became pres
ident in 1891, when he inaugurated his
tenure Of office by organizing a strike,
which lasted six weeks In 1911 he was
the leading spirit of the great coal strike,
which he conducted with such resolution
and ability that the following year saw
him promoted to the presidency of the
Miners Federation Of Great Britain, with
more than a million men under his con-
troll. He IS said to have gained an
ascendancy over the world of workers
such as no other man in Great Britain
has ever reached
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-20
Todav,s Anniversaries.

lS2S-Prince Frederick Charles, who com
manded the largest of the three
German armies in the Franco-Prus-
sian war, born, in Berlin Died near
Potsdam. June Is, 1885.
lS45-Lucy Myers Mitchell, celebrated
archaeologist, born (of American
parentagel in Persia Died in Swift
zerland, March TO- 1888
lS6l-Fifteen thousand lives lost in an
earthquake in the Argentine Re
public.
I87l-Napoleon III arrived in England
after his capitulation at Sedan.
l873-France declared protectorate over
the empire of AMMAN
lS9i-Louis Kossuth, the famous Hum
garian patriot and statesman. died
at Turin. Born in Hungary, April
q, 1902
lS95-Eight thousand fresh Spanish
troops reported on the way to Cuba
to help suppress the instruction.
l9l6-United States house of representa-
tives rejected an amendment call.
ing for an increase in the regular
army to 100000 men.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-20
Spring-there she stands.
Those Leisure Sabbath Hours.
burlington News


As we recall it there was a tempest
in teapot down Brattleboro way last
fall when action was taken to suppress
Sunday baseball. In Rutland and other
Vermont communities Sunday baseball
seemed to prosper amazingly with no
material damage to the public morals
but some very good people live in Brat
tleboro just as they do in Holyoke,
Mass.
The latter community is a mill city
where the operatives in the cotton and
paper mills labor six DAYS a week.
There had grown up a custom of toler-
ating baseball games of the amateur
type Sunday afternoons and finally an
amateur league with Sunday after
noon playing schedule was formed often
as many as ten thousand people turning
out to see the games.
The spectacle stirred the wrath of
some good souls, however, and the state
police were importuned to come to
Holyoke and stop the proclamation of
the Sabbath which they did and as a re-
suit the Massachusetts legislature is
faced with legislation of various sorts
affecting Sunday sports
merely matter of deciding how leis-
ure Sunday hours are to be spent One
way or another they are going to be
wiled away and some ways are better
than others.
Our notion is that God doesn t oct
very bitter at those of his people who
elect of a Sunday to sit out in the
open, profting by the fresh air and sun
shine while watching two teams of
clean young men engaged in a test of
skill and we have an idea that the Mas
sachusetts legislature and the legisla-
lures of good many other states will
eventually come to believe that clean
sports make for clean minds and clean
minds are highly valued in Heaven.
Out of Holyoke, by the way, comes
an opinion of an eminent divine Rev
Franklin knight, rector of st. Paul 3
| Episcopal church, who, writing in the
| Springfield Union says:
eve may with perfect propriety
| provide by law and should that every
| person in the land may have the right
to rest from his ordinary week day
work on one day in seven; because this
demand has been by long experience
proved to be absolutely necessary tc
the physical health of our people. But
l submit that any law which absolutely
prohibits on Sunday the indulgence OF
unprofessional, that is to say amateur
sports and games, has been, is, and al
ways will be a gross infringement OF
the principles of personal rights which
the constitution of the United State;
has been so careful to protect.
That be as it may it follows that
having leisure on their hands on Sun
day the people of all communities will
spend such hours as they may. Those
who oppose amateur. sports on Sunday
ought to know, if they don It, some OF
the other ways in which leisure hour:
are spent.
Some very sincere peole might have
a look at the workings of the cheaI
summer resorts on a Sunday Afternoon
before cleaning up the bleachers.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-20
To the Insuring Public

The Green Mountain Mutual Fire
Insurance Co. was organized for the
two-fold purpose of securing insurance
at cost, and to keep within the State
part of the Millions of dollars now
given to outside companies each year.
Its growth has been phenomenal.
There was written the first six months
over 100000 of insurance for Yer
monters, and encouragement should be
given to a company that can give
high grade protection at cost
Its affairs are in the hands of the
following well-known Vermonters.
who are Trustees of the Company:
II. j. NJ. Jones, G. L. Blanchard. Z.
H. Deavitt, w f. Harlow. H. Daniels,
H. J. Volholm, and w. A. Ellis, of
Montpelier; L. A. Cobb. of Island
Pond; S. A. Daniels, of Brattleboro:
Jas. T. Dewey, of Queehee; J. W.
Fowler, of Manchester; A. B. Moves, of
St Johnsbury; NJ. L. Powell, of Bur
lington; c. Z. Schoff, of St. Adams. and
Z. l.. Walker, of Bellows Falls. Vt.
Policies are issued upon three plans:
Assessment, Dividend and Stock, thus
meeting the wishes of the assured for
the form of insurance that he prefers.
II - tAIulpHcu ~ care 1UE ldIAt lines OF
insurance and the public who have not
ibeen able to secure as much Mutual in
'Apy-
surance in the past as they desired can
now obtain the same with this Company
provided their property is in a class
acceptable to them
Most every one has property to in
sure and since the cost of living has in
creased, they do not take into consid-
Grafton the cost of replacing their
property in case of fire and are only
carrying the same amount Of insurance
as they were before the war.
Look over your insurance policies.
See if you are satisfied with the rate
you are paying. See if you have enough
insurance TO protect you.
See if YOU cannot patronize a Home
Company and secure your insurance at
cost.
Correspondence is solicited from
those desiring to place fire insurance or
from those who wish information about
the Company and the cost of insuring.
We have some very desirable terri
tory to offer prospective agents.
Yours very truly.
GREEN MOUNTAIN MUTUAL
FIRE ms. CO, INC.
Montpelier, Vermont.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-20
Today S Events

Today marks the beginning of Spring.
The Michigan State Federation of
Women's Clubs is 25 years old today.
Minnesota Republicans meet at st
Paul today to elect delegates to the
national convention.
Six Of the leading American colleges for
women-Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Bar
nard, Radcliffe and Mt. Holyoke-are to
engage in a debating contest tonight on
the subject of collective bargaining"
The battleship Maryland, the largest
war vessel ever built for the United
States government, is to be launched to-
day at the yards of the Newport News
Shlpbuilding and Dry Dock Company
Major General Leonard Wood and
Senator Miles Poindexter Of Washington,
rival candidates for the Republican presi-
dental nomination, are to engage in a
JOINT debate tonight at Pierre, S. Oak.
Pursuant to call issued by Franklin K.
Lane, late secretary of the interior. a
national conference on community organi-
zation is to meet in Washington d. c. to-
day to discuss plans for the democratic
organization of communities
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-20
HARD PAYING THE FIDDLER.

The taxpayers of North Dakota have
been assessed to pay the fddler-the
Nonpartisian league in this case-and
they are groaning under the heavy bur
den that has been forced upon them
Some of the important expenses imposed
upon the people of that state by A. c..
Townley's league are: A $4,000 900
bond issue as capital stock for a state
bank to finance industrial democracy,
100000 appropriation for current ex-
penses of an Industrial commission to
conduct the bank and state enterprises.
$5,000,000 bonds for state grain eleva-
tors and mills, $10,0OO,0OO bonds to be
used by the state bank to loan money
on real estate, an appropriation of $780,
geo for administering the compulsory
state hail insurance, another appropria
.tion of 100000 for administering a
state building and loan to handle farm
and city property and levying a half
mill tax to pay bonuses to soldiers and
sailors in the World war. They also
adopted single tax, raised assessments
to 100 per cent and exempted farm i'm
proyements and portion of city dwell
ngS from taxation. Under the new
assessment plan they increased the val
uation of property for taxation from
$4OO.O41,152 to $1,523, 746,929-an in
crease of over billion dollars or $50
per cent.
Apparently there has been no reduc-
ton in the rate of taxation as there is
a tremendous increase in the amount of
taxes the farmers have to pay. One
farmer in 1918 paid total taxes of 1924
In 1919 his taxes were $642 and he had
to pay $23S hail tax in addition. The
farmers have been the hardest hit as
the valuation of farm lands was in
creased 40S per cent railways and
other public utilities only 254 per cent
and cfty real estate only 275 per cent
Despite this tremendous increase in tax.
alton the state government is running
behind. The state auditor says there
are $390,619.43 unpaid bills and the
state owes in addition $3,50O,O0O fol
hail indemnity.
There is no evidence that the farmer:
Of North Dakota receive any more mon
ey for their crops or hire help for any
less wages than they did before thi.
crushing state expense was placed upol
them. All of these things tend to show
that no government can afford to nil
up with industrial and economical ques
/ tions.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-20
Little Benny S
Note Book
BY LEE PAPE.
The Park Ave. News.

Weather Time to get warmer.
Spoarts. Sam Cross has gave up trying
to teetch his black and wife baby fertile
Sam Jr. to do tricks after trying in vane
to teetch it to stand on its tale. shake
hands, aud set up.
Exter, Lew Davis Is A Brother Agen,
There is another baby in Lew Davises
house, not being a serprize to enybody
exsept maybe itself, on account of every
body Expecting it, Lew Davis says its hard
to tell wat its going to look like on ac-
count of its lectures not having eny
speshil shape yet.
Intristing Facks About Intristing
People Loretter AIincer loves all kinds
of flowers, considering daisies the cutest
and roses the smelhest
Sissiety Mr. Charles (Puds1 Simkins
was getting dressed last Thersday morning
before brekfst wen all of suddin he
thawt he must be getting thinner till he
found out he was axsidently putting on
his fathers belt insted ef his own and
insted of shrinking he was getting fatter
il possible.
Advertisement, Visiting cards printed.
10 sents dozen Ones with one finger
mark on, sents a duzzon, ones with or
more finger marks, ) sents duzzon. See
Artie Alexander
Lost. Nuthing.
Found. The same.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-20
Practical Service.
Rutland News.)

The Brattleboro board of trade has
shown one of the manifold ways in
which an organization of this kind can
be of practical service both to members
and to those who make the village their
trading or business center All of the
concerns which are engaged in the haul
ing of lumber or other products from
the countryside have been advised by
the Brattleboro board of trade as to the
conditions of the various roads, so that
teams may have the benefit of the care
full survey of conditions that was made
by this board. Especially at a time like
this winter, when some roads have been
utterly impossible is such service of
great utility.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-20
The Sugar Maker s. Duty.
Barre Times. }

The st. Johnsbury Republican car
ries the slogan: vermont expects
every maple sugar maker to do his
duty at the top of its title in this
week 5 issue. The slogan is well put
and well timed. There are some indi-
cations that Vermont is going to have
one of the best chances in long time
to produce record crop of maple sugar
and to let the opportunity slip by would
be almost criminal Vermont is pecul-
iarly well situated to get a large ag-
2regate income from its maple sweets,
and the high price of graduated sugar
makes 1t certain that there will be an
easy market for all the high grade sug-
ar that can be made In this connection
it is well to emphasize that the revenue
office has made the ruling, contrary to
the first ruling by the Vermont repre-
sentative, that maple sugar in cakes is
not subject to the government tax such
as is placed on confections Cakes com.
posed entirely of maple sugar are not
taxable. So that ruling removes one
of the drawbacks of side issue of the
maple sugar industry. Therefore, let
every Vermont maple sugar maker dc
his duty.