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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-07
COX POSES AS
UNDERDOG MAN
Declares He Is Representative of That
Class-Should Reach Middle
Ground In Labor Disputes.

MIDDLETOWN, O.,Jnly 7.-tlf |
should become president of the nation
/ feel that / possess one equipment
which | would not give for any other,
that 1 lived through the life of the
underman. I now feel that / am the
representative of that class, Gov
ernor Cox said here last night in his
first public address after being nomi-
mated for president by the Democratic
national convention at San Francisco.
Speaking of the unrest in the world
the governor said amy attempt to ex-
plot class hate is equally as dangerous
as the Bolsheviki in Europe. Gov
ernor Cox said that during the six
years as governor of Ohio not one shot
had been fred by a man in uniform in
any of the industrial disputes. He de-
clared that in all industrial disputes
there is a middle ground which must
be followed in order to do justice to
ALL
The governor, Mrs. Cox and three
Chicago friends stopped for few min
utes at the home of his brother in law
and then motored back to Dayton
through downpour of rain. He
reached home at midnight.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-07
REPUBLICAN LEADERS
CONFER WITH HAYS
Chairman Makes No Comment On Nom
ination of Cox-Johnson Says Sup
pert Republican Candidate.

CHICAGO, July 7.-Republican leaders
from middle western states continued to
arrive today to confer with Chairman VIII
H. Hays and other members Of the Repub-
lican national committee on campaign
plans. Before July %, when Mr.. Hays
expects to attend the notification cera-
monies at the home Of Senator Harding
il il expected that leaders from most Of
the states west of the Aheghenies viii
come for conferences.
Chairman Hays declined to comment di-
rectly on the nomination OF Governor Cox.
Instead he expressed satisfaction with the
general situation and paid tribute to Sen
ator Harding The Republican leader in.
sisted that their campaign plans would
be directed at the Democratic platform
and not the nominee.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-07
Speaks at Public Initiation
of WOOdmen on
Common
WILL TELL ABOUT
HIS EXPENSES
Capt. E. w. Gibson, District Deputy
Donnelly and Consul Fennell Make
at Outdoor Initiation.


Eight candidates were initiated into
Brattleboro Camp, Modern Woodmen
of America, on the common last night,
the layout being southeast of the
band stand, and while the initiatory
work was different from that in the
ritual it afforded opportunity for 200
or more persons to see the camp in ac-
tion and to hear the story of the
lated, also to hear an address by James
Hartness of Springfield this state, who
is one of the candidates for governor
Consul David j. Fennell of BrattIe-
of the camp taking part in the initia-
tory work were in uniform and carried
axes. District Deputy Joseph w. Dom
nelly, under whose direction the out
door meeting was arranged, put the
| candidates through some burlesque
work that kept the audience amused.
In presenting Mr. Hartness Consul
| Fennell reminded the Woodmen that
Mr.. Hartness was a member of Spring
| field camp and said that when they
went to the polls to vote for governor
| they would know for whom to vote.
| The audience warmly applauded Mr..
| Hartness for his speech, which was
short and well delivered and bristIed
with sentiments of loyalty to Vermont.
/ Mr.. Hartness referred to each of the
candidates for the governorship by name
and said that all those in the race with
i him xuara oood falloHr,O aDd ba4 ha hod
no word to say against any of them or
their schemes, but that he knew more
about his own scheme than he did about
the others and so would talk about his
own plan for few minutes.
He said he was brought up in ma
chine shop and learned to make ma
chimes, and he recalled how some of the
Iworkmen used to play tricks on the boys
who were brought in to learn the bust
mess, which made it hard for the boys to
learn and difficult for them to get along
This was done to discourage the bows
from learning the trade and taking work
away from the men, but his own personal
attitude was to encourage them, and he
: has maintained that attitude ever since
In various places, the speaker said, he
had helped organize machine companies,
and he referred to those in his home
, town of Springfield, which are owned by
men living there, as examples of what
: can be done in other parts of the state
to keep the Vermont boys at home, to
make them contented and give them bet
: ter homes. More demand for farm prod
ucts, better markets and better roads
2 would follow as natural result.
Mr.. Hartness said he was spending
| money in futheranee of that plan, and
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-07
PROBATION AND
CHARITIES WORK
Fewer Prisoners on Probation-Public
Aid Needed for 40 Chill
dren In State

MONTPELIER, July THE report of
the board of charities and probation
covering the month of June shows in the
probation department that "a new cases
were received during the month and Al
terminated, leaving the total number
upon probation and parole 65S, or about
100 less than three years ago.
During the month eight dependent
children were committed to the board,
two were committed to Brandon upon
the boards recommendation; IL defec-
tive children were investigated for sur
gical care, l3 were approved for hospital
treatment, II entered hospitals, l6 were
discharged from hospitals, two children
were sent to Pittsford sanitarium, one
child to the preventorium at Essex Cen
ter and one to Waterbury. Mothers aid
was granted involving nine children.
During the month 2S cases were investi-
gated involving 30 children and required
50 separate visits. Fifty-six of the chill
dren who have been committed to the
board were visited and 43 of the poor
houses of the state received inspections
During the month S353.56 was re.
ceived for the Graham fund for crippled
and defective children who had not been
committed to the board. This feature
of the charities board work has beer
highly approved by the public generally
More than $50 little detectives have beer
made physically well through the gener
osity of the public, there being no STATE
funds available for this department o.
their work. There are about 40 children
now needing hospital treatment, but tn,
department is wholly without funds fol
their care until such time as generously
: disposed persons come to their assist
ance.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-07
Much Enthusiasm Is Dis
played - Cox In First
Speech Champions Cause
of Underdog - ROOse-
velt's Nomination By Ac-
clamatiOn-Sena Reed
Declares He Is Still a
Democrat

SAN FRANCISCO, July Dele
gates to the Democratic national con-
vention. their work completed and the
big gathering adjourned in last roar
of enthusiasm for the party standard
bearers, Governor Cox of Ohio and
Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York,
were serambHng today for train accom-
modations homeward.
Mr.. Roosevelt was due to leave dur.
ing the day for Dayton, o., to consult
with Governor Cox, where preliminary
plans for the campaign will be mapped
ont. The assistant secretary intends
to resign from the navy department
az soon as he can clear up his desk
and will spend 10 days or so in Wash
ington for that purpose before shaping
his plans for the campaign.
1t was generally agreed that the con
vention had been a great success. IL
noise and unhagging display of enthu'
s;asm were a gauge of that success
there was ample ground for their views
Jrp to the last the delegates were ready
to cheer or to demonstrate at every op
portunity.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-07
GOVERNOR COX
URGES RATIFICATION
Believes 1t Duty of Louisiana Legisla-
ture to Give Favorable Action on
Suffrage at Once.

DAYTON. O., July 7.-Governor Cox,
the Democratic candidate for president,
today expressed his opinion that it is
the duty of the Louisiana legislature to
ratify the woman suffrage amendment
Immediately. The Democratic eandi
dates expressed views on suffrage rati-
1ication was contained in a telegram re-
plying to Frank j. Looney, chairman OF
the Democratic state central committee
of Louisiana in which he asked him to
express his views to the assembly on
ratification of the federal suffrage amend
ment.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-07
SPECIAL TOWN
MEETING SOON
Exemptions Desired in Be-
half of Three Local
Concerns
LARGE INCREASE BY
FIT. DUMMER MILLS
Kolstad, Taylor Co. Building Plant on
Frost Street-Millers Falls Co. Dou-
bles Force and Pay Roll-Five-Year
Exemptions Wanted.

In response to petition received TINS
morning the Brattleboro selectmen will
cali soon a special town meeting to act
on articles relative to exempting from
taxation for a period of five years GER
tain property of three Brattleboro
business concerns.
The first is to see if the voters will
exempt the property Of the Kolstad,
Taylor Co., Inc, such exemption not to
cover any land.
This company IS a branch of the c.
F. Church Co. of Holyoke, Mass, which
recently bought land having a front
age of 200 feet on Flat street, where a
manufacturing plant is in construction.
The company viii make pyrafn toilet
sets here which win be shipped to Hoi-
yoke to be covered with a special fin-
ish. It is hoped to have the factory
completed by Oct. l and to have II In
operation late in October, and It ls ex-
pected TO be an important addition To
the town industrially.
Second in the exemption articles is
one to see if the voters viii exempt fol
five years from the date of completion
and installation such additions to the
plant and equipment as may be con
structed and installed by the Fort
Dummer Mills, such exemption not t.
include lands or the present plant ol
equipment of the Mills.
The Fort Dummer Mills plans large
increase in its plant, to be begun this
year and completed next year, which
probably will cost several hundred
| thousand dollars, and it is this addi
tional development on which the ex
emption is desired. The concern is dis
tributing several hundred Thousand
dollars annually in Brattleboro through
its pay roll.
The other exemption desired is on TIL
property of the Mllers Falls CO., bu
no exemption is desired on any land.
This company a short time ag
bought the National Machine Co. prop
erty on Elm street and took lease o
, the building which the business occu
pies 1t has doubled the pay roll an
! the force of employees and is engaged i
i the manufacture of automobile jacks.
/ Names attached to the petition ar
those of f. J. Fenton, A. p. Simond'
j. L. Stockwell, F. R. Vaughan, G. N
:. Clay, G. G. Staples, Harold E. Whitney
-tC. A. Boyden, Dennison Cowles, A. T
!, Clapp, E. G.. Tenney and H. G. Barbe
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-07
INTEREST GROWS
IN BARNEY CASE
Treasurer G.. A. Harris of Brattleboro
Furnishes Information of Import
ance in Boston Affair.

The first actual connection between
the Herman l.. Barney gang of auto
thieves and men higher up" came yes
terday with the statement made to The
Post by Charles A. Harris, treasurer of
the Brattlboro Savings bank of Brat
tleboro, VT, says today's Boston Post
Barney, when he was first arrested; ad
mitted, among other thefts, the theft of
"a car at Nantasket Beach, when he was
accompanied by another auto thief
named August Turner.
Mr.. Harris, who had facts and dates
written down, said: MY ear was stolen
shortly after / had parked it near Para
gon Park on Saturday, July 20, 1918. On
Aug. II / was notified by Superintendent
Crowley of the Boston police that a car
believed to be mine had been located in
Cambridge. Accompanied by Inspector
Nelson | went to a garage and identified
my car. 1t had been registered there
July 81, registered in the name of (here
Mr.. Harris gives the name of a widely
known Cambridge man who occupies re-
sponsibe position, hereafter called Mr..
I X.). The time of registering was given
/ as p. m, but it looked very much to
me as though this had been changed from
g a. m. The number plate on the car
was a Massachusetts one, bearing the
number 445S9. This number is listed
against the name of Charles Du Bois,
Main street, South Weymouth.
MIR. Y. (the man in whose name the
car was registered) claimed that he took
the car away from another man who had
said that he had bought it from still
another man in the Hotel Touraine, pay
ling S400 for the car. The garage would
Enot release the car except under the con-
sent of Mr.. X, and he would not give
his consent until after a conference the
following day at the office of District At
torney Tufts. At this conference Mr.. X
and myself were present. The conference
was without much result. Mr.. Y. told
: nothing more of the man from whom he
had obtained the car, and he made an
/ effort to find out from me where had
.Iobtained the information that the ear
had been located. 1t was evident that
4 Mr.. X. himself had made no effort to
notify me. / was told that l could have
the car on payment of garage charges OF
$40, at the rate of 81 day. When | de-
INJURED at this a compromise was ar
ranged and / paid SO in charges"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-07
PROBING CAMPAIGN EXPENSES
Senate Committee Looking Into Low
den's and Palmer's Records.

CHICAGO, July IA dozen wit
nesses We're present today for the re-
opening of the investigation of the
senate committee on presidential cam
paign expenditures. Senator Kenyon,
chairman, presided. The activities in
behalf of the candidacy of Governor
Lowden in Missouri were first taken
up by the senate committee. 1t was
also stated that certain phases of At
torney General Palmer's preconventior
activities will be investigated. The
sessions here are expected to last on
ly two or three days.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-07
SPEERS LEAVE ON
MOTOR CAMP TRIP
Start for Cincinnati with Tent, Fire
less Cooker and Other Equipment
Are Seasoned CAMPERS.

Mr.. and Mrs. c. A. Speer and son. Hal
bert, started Sunday morning on a motor
camp trip to their new home in Cincin
natl. Ohio, where Mr.. Speer has a posi-
tion as head of the department of ac
counting in the Littleford school.
The Speers eamped during Friday and
SATURDAY. to try out their camp equip
ment and see that all was in readiness
for the trip. They have tent contain
ing beds, the whole of which fastens on
the side of the car at night and carries
on the running board Master Halbert
sleeps in the tonneau of the car. A fire
less cooker insures the proper food for
him and has a warm meal ready for the
family at camping time. A two burner
gasoline stove which folds into a small
sheet-iron case is another useful adjunct
to the equipment. On one running board
is a convenient cupboard which carries
the gasoline stove, utensils and provi-
sions. The cupboard door lets down to
form camp table and each member of
the family has a folding camp chair.
The Speers express themselves as be-
ing well pleased with the outfit They
are seasoned campers, having travelled ex-
tensively through the West. During their
IouT years IN New Engidhu JheY- nave
camped over practically the whole coun-
try including the Berkshires, White and
Green mountains. They made trip
encircling Lake Champlain, and other
trips have covered the New England
coast from Saybrook Point to far up in
Maine. Cape Cod is the first objective
point on their present trip and other
stops will include New York, Philadel-
phia, and Washington before starting
over the Lincoln Highway to Cincinnati
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-07
ANOTHER SPECIAL SESSION.
North Carolina Legislature VIII Be
Asked to Act on Suffrage.

RALEIGH, n. c., july 7.-Governor
Beckett of North Carolina today issued a
call for a special session of the legislature
for August 10, at which ratification of the
suffrage amendment win be considered.
Governor Beckett did not mention suf-
frage in the call for the special session,
but he has telegraphed President Wilson
that he will recommend to the special
session that the amendment be ratified.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-07
Johnson With the Party.

SAN FRANCISCO, July Support Of
the Republican party with a candidate
standing four square on the platform" is
the only choice left ''those who believe
in safeguarding, protecting and preserv-
ing our Americanism' Senator Hiram w.
johnson of California declared in state
ment at his home here today.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-07
Masonic Temple

Thursday, July S-Regular meeting Fort
Dummer chapter. Stated conyoeatloh
Work: NJ. NJ. degree.
Thursday, July s, at 7.30 o'clock
Regular eonvocation of Fort Dummer
chapter, No. II, r. A, Nj. Business:
NJ NJ. M.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-07
SUFFRAGE BEFORE COURT.
C. S. Fairchild Asks For Injunction on
Secretary of State Colby.

WASHINGTON, July Proceed
ings asking that Bainbridge Colby,
secretary of state, be enjoined from
issuing any proclamation declaring
the suffrage amendment ratified were
instituted in the District of Columbia
supreme court today by Charles S.
Fairchilds of New York, president of
the American Constitutional League.
Mr. Fairchild also seeks to prevent
Attorney General Palmer from enforc-
inp the amendment.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-07
BARNEY PLEADS GUILTY.
Sentence For Breaking Prison Indef
nitelY Postponed.

BOSTON, July Herman L. Bar
ney, the escaped convict who recent
ly gave himself up and returned to f.
nish his sentence at the state prison
pleaded guilty in the superior court
today to an Indictment charging him
with escaping on May 26. He was
ordered held for sentence later, no
date being set. Charles Ward, a ne
gro, who escaped with Barney entered
plea of guilty of the same charge
and his sentence was also deferred.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-07
DEF ECA TIES LEA We FRISCO
CHEERING FOR LEADERS
GOV cox AND ROOSEVELT

McAdoo today sent the following tele-
gram to Franklin D. Roosevelt, assist
ant secretary of the navy, who has been
named as the Democratic party's vice
presidential candidate: Please ac-
cept my warmest congratulations and
best wishes for success
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-07

The England club proposes to
purchase and equip new tennis ground
in the Wimbledon district, at a cost
of $685. 900, with a view to making it
the scene of the worlds championships
for wears to come.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-07
Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born
January 80, 1882, at Hyde Park, Dutchess
county, n Y, the son of James and Sara
rfDelano) Roosevelt. He graduated from
Harvard in 1904. He then became a stu
dent in Columbia Law School, and was
admitted to the New York Bar in 1907
In 1910 he was elected state senator in the
district comprising Dutchess, Putnam and
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-07

Winners in the recent sectional try
outs for the American Olympic team
are now training earnestly for the ar
duous competition which confronts
them in the Harvard stadium on July
II and one week after that date the
successful Yankee athletes will sail
from New York for Antwerp.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-07
WILL NOT CHANGE TREATY.
Allied Conference Will Not Make Con-
cessions to Turkey.

SPA, July Z. (Associated Press).-
The allied German conference contin-
ued its sessions here today. The i'm
portant clauses of the peace treaty
with Turkey will remain as they are, it
has been decided by the supreme coun-
oil
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-07
Red Men S Hall

Thursday, July s, at 8 p. m.-Regularr
meeting Pocahontas council No. 4, ID. OF
P. Let there be a good attendance as
there are reports to be read and other
business to be transacted.
Dance Saturday night.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-07
Universalist Church

Wednesday, July Z, at 7.30 p. ma reg
ular meeting of the Boy Scouts, Troop No.
4. A large attendance desired
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-07
HoLYoKE GROWS BUT LITTLE.
Increase of Al Per Cent Shown BY
Census Figures.

WASHINGTON, July Census re-
turns announced today included Hol-
yoke, Mass, 60,203, increase 2,473 or
Al per cent.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-07

As late as 1880 England had but one
prominent periodical devoted exclus-
lively to the interests of women.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-07
Reed Thinks Cox Is Strong.

KANSAS CITY, Mo, July 7.-Sena-
tor James A. Reed yesterday declared
that he considered the nomination OF
Governor Cox for the presidency "from
every standpoint the strongest that
could have been made among the real
candidates of the convention" SEN
ator Reed was asked whether. he would
support Governor Cox GIVE always
said | was a Democrat he replied,
and declined to make further state.
ment.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-07

A Boston Herald man was in Brattle-
boro over Sunday and with Chief of
Police Wilson tried unsuccessfully to
locate any farm where Barney worked
nafter escaping from the state prison at
Charlestown.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-07

In the days of the Paraohs some of
the most sacred religious offices We're
held by women.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-07
THE WEATHER.
Showers Tonight and Tomorrow-Mod
crate South Winds.

WASHINGTON, July The wea-
ther forecast: Showers tonight and
Thursday Moderate south winds.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-07
Methodist Episcopal Church

Friday, July 8, 7.30 P. m.-Prayer
meeting.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-07

As boy Ben Tillett, the great Eng
lish labor leader, travelled with a cir
Gus.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-07

McAdoo Congratulates Roosevelt.
NEW YORK, July William G..
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-03-27
DAYLIGHT SAVING
BANNED At GOSHEN

GOSHEN, Ind, March 26.-Day-
light saving will not become eff
fective here nexc Sunday, as planned
by the city council a few weeks
ago. when a motion was adopted
ordering that all clocks should be
turned ahead one hour on the last
Sunday in March and turned back
one hour on the last Sunday in Oc-
tOber. Decision not to observe day
light saving here at this time was
reached when the opinion became
general that fast time under pres
ent conditions would result IN end
less confusion. as trains are now OF
Grated on slow time and banks and
express companies gave notice they
would not comply with the order
TO turn the clocks ahead. Farmers
in this section are bitterly opposed
TO daylight saving and the board of
county commissioners was unwilling
10 order the court house clock turn
ed ahead one hour.
Manufacturers and others who are
in favor OF fast time had asked the
common council TO declare fo- the
new time and that body promptly
cOmAlied.