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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-11

and keep their stores open seven days
In the week and sixteen to eighteen hours
a day. Possibly the only way this can
be done would be to give the authorities
of each municipality power to regulate
the hours which business places may
keep open on Sunday. We are aware
this plan would bring variations wide
apart but we can see no other way. The
Sunday hours of different lines cannot
agree. The dealer in Sunday newspa-
pers is compelled to open up when the
papers arrive n not before. The drug
store and ice-cream parlors plan to be
open during the leisure hours of the pub
lie when people want to buy soda and
ice cream. The garage owner is open all
day and nearly all night during the tour
ing season but would close down Sun
days in mid-winter. No hard and fast
rule can be laid down to apply to all
cases. The same facts apply in dealing
with sports and recreation. The pub
lie demands and gets baseball and other
sports on Sunday but they should not
be pulled off on the lot next to n viii
lage church during hours of service.
Sensible Sunday laws are a wise and
benefcent thing but the average old-time
Sunday law is a joke because it is so
blue" that juries will not convict under
it. It is time for a change along the line
of commonsense. We do not know Just
what is proposed in the proposed blue
laws that the city papers have been talk
ing about put there is a splendid chance
for a change for the better from the ar
chaic statutes now supposed to be in
force, but nowhere in effect.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-11
SATURDAY, DECEMBER II, 1920.
STILL PTZZLING.

The address of L. b. Johnson of Ran
dolph. chairman of the state board of
education. before the union superintend-
ents of the state was a very able and
candid presentation of the merits of Yer
mont's ddcational system. He said the
expense of union superintendents was
about five per cent of the amount of
money spent for educational purposes in
the state and about u per cent of the
salaries paid to teachers of the elemen-
tary schools of the state, also that they
cost about 500 per school each year.
Five per cent of all the money spent for
education for supervision seems q reas-
enable amount for that purpose.
The percentage of expenditure, how
ever, does not entirely answer the ques.
ton in peoples minds. They are ask
ing if better supervision could not be
secured through the employment of a
smaller number of high paid superintend-
ents and more trained teacher assistants
Mr.. johnson also says the increase in
the wages of the rural school teachers in
the state amounts to 40.5 per cent.
SFdueu SCuOOl JcdCUeES t. per cent, ulSu
school teachers 40 per cent, high school
principals 43 per cent and union super
intendents 14.5 per cent. At the SANE
time the figures of educational expenses
by the state, secured from the commits,
sioner of ~education's office by the Morris,
vile Messenger, show that the superin'
tendents in the year 1918 cost $118,134
% and in 1920, $146,S63.S 80, an increase
of SOS, 72S.S7. They also show that
the teachers salaries of the rural schools
in 1918 amountedst to $123,651.30 and il
1920 to SIP, 715A5, a decrease of $40,
933.S5. Just how is so much higher per
centagc of increase for rural teacher.
bshown when there is such a decrease in
the amount of money paid them? 1t is
a question which the person desiring
exact facts is justified in asking.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-11
PSYCHOLOGICAL BANKING.

The director general of the Bank OF
North Dakota explaining the closing OF
more than a score of the banks in that
state says:
There nave been more banks failed
propOrtionately in North Dakota than
in other states because the banks in the
new territory of the western portion OF
the state are much smaller proportion
ately, and because of four short crops.
The crop of 1919 was almost a total fail
ure. During the unusually long and Sc
we're winter of 1919 and 1920, banks
were compelled to advance money to
help farmers feed their stock and addi-
tional money had to be furnished to pro-
vide for the 1920 crop planting. In
the ordinary course of business no doubt
a majority of these banks which are
closed will reopen as soon as farmers
can be induced to sell a portion of their
crops"
1t looks as though there was some psy-
chology in the banking business in North
Dakota in trying to establish farmers on
land that fails to produce crops. While
farmers have been developing these I'M
certain lands good sure crop farming
land in other states has been abandoned.
1t might be beneficial to the farmers and
the banks if they would turn the tide
of new farmers toward the safe lands
in the older states like Vermont where
they can raise crops every year.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-11

Lilies Bloom and Silver Threads
Among the Gold?' asks a reminiscent
contemporary. They have met the fate of
the things that were. They are of a
past that is beginning to be dim and dis
tant, but strange to say there is Oc-
casionally an individual who will persist
that he would still enjoy them better to-
day than a player piano which sounds
as though it was run by a steam en-
CINE or a photograph reeling off a pile
of jazz dance records.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-11
Legislature and the Schools
lSt. Adams Messenger.)

tCt' Adams MeSsenger.)
"Ex-Lieutenant Governor Stearns
would scrap the state board of educa.
ton. Why stop there? But, for lands
sake; don't put the educational job up
to the legislature. That body will have
trouble enough with the roads. the pri-
mary law, industrial development, etc.
without trying to map out a school poI.
icy .'-Burlington Clipper.
just whom else can the job be put
up to other than the legislature? Has
the Clipper forgotten what the func-
tons OF a legislature are, or does it think
that there is some other agency that can
d!!spiace the general assembly i'm map
ping out a school policy? Such talk as
the contemporary has INDUCED in is the
verlest kind of nonsense. If the contem-
porary wants any changes in the school
law, 1t must appeal to the legislature.
If 1t does not want the members of the
general assembly to divert their time
from constructive work to a pitched bat
tie on educational matters, it should use
whatever influence it may have in that
direction.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-11

The Springfield Reporter warns us not
to think for a moment that the appear.
ance of the young things (who seasons
before had been "as warm as toast" wad-
ing drifts in cobweb-like silk hosiery
wearing the thickcst of wooden stockings
is any indication of a return to reason or
renaissance of c-ommonsense, nor due to
the severity of the weather. We had
not regarded it as such but has sup
posed it to be an era to be wrestled
with like that of ear hobs and Tapping
ovcrshOes.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-11
Little Benny's
Note Book
THE PARK AVE. NEWS
By LEI PAPE.

1hE fARh AVE. NEWS.
Weather. Happy thawts of Krissmas
and meny wishes for presents.
.SPoarts: Pubs Simkins Expects a pair
OF ice skates this Krissmas, ony that
don't prove enything, because he Expected
a pair last Krissmas.
Sissiety. Miss Maud Jonsons little sis,
ter Dottie has rote 10 different letters to
Santa Claws SO far, and Miss Maud Jon
son IS getting sick and tired of taking
them out and pretending to mail them.
Pome by Skinny Martin.
MENY DELEGATIONS
Id be very fond of all kinds of fish,
Boiled and baked and fried.
1t it wasent for numerous reasons,
Being the bones inside.
All sorts of heavy hauling done in
bran new Express Vaughn. Capacity rs
pounds. Telefone Sid Hunt eny time
aftir skool. Advertisement
Is bizness bum? We will pervide a
crowd of fellows on short notice to wawk
in and out of your store to ack like de-
Tcoys to make people think it mite be a
good frfrcr co 20 m th6fF themselves. Tic
Ed Wernick and Lew Davis Crowd Co
advertisement
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-11
You can't shop early much longer.
Motor Raids on the Farmers.
Barre Tines

Up to the present time there has been
little, if any, complaint regarding the
somewhat common practice of motorists
III other states making raids on the farm
produce which lies within easy reach from
the main motor highways, chiefly in Mas
sachusetts. 1t is said that a large amount
Of produce is stolen each summer or fall
because of the braZen raids made by per
sons travelling by motor car. In fact, the
depredatlons have grown so much in the
past summer that a concerted effort is
to be made in the Massachusetts, ~legisla-
ture to punish most severely those who
engage in the practice, it being proposed
to make them liable to Imprisonment of
hive years for a maximum and two years
for a minimum besides depriving them
of the right to operate a motor vehicle
for five years. Sympathy goes with the
to great expense and much outlay of time
and energy to bring his products up to
a high state of cultivation, and he Is en-
titled to as much protection from rob-
bers as is the merchant, the banker or
any other person of similar nature. His
produce on the ground, on tree or on
vines is no different than the goods on
the merchants ounter or the money III
the bankers vault: and those who steal
vegetables, fruit n other things from
the farmer ought to get heavy punish
ment. The punishment proposed In Mas
.sachusetts is none too severe and the law
ought to be enacted. Here in Vermont
it may be well to make some special pro-
vision to prevent the raids on farmers.
and one of the most effective measures
would be to deprive convicted persons Of
the right to operate motor vehicles for
a considerable period of time. Thus far
the complaints in Vermont nave been.
confined chiefly to the stealing of pota-i
toes dug, bagged and left on the ground
temporarily; but it seems probable that
the depredations committed in Massachu-I
sets will be extended to Vermont as the
restraint begins to nave it's effect IN op-
e~rations in Massachusetts.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-11
TRAVELS OF A SALMON.
It's TwO-Years' Journey Estimated t.
Be About 6OO Miles.

The Canadian department of marine
and fisheries has notified the bureau of
fisheries of the United States department
of of the capture in the Skeena
river, British Columbia. in the spring
of 1920, of a chinook salmon bearing an
aluminium button or tag with the letters
"B. F. stamped on one side and the
number 1911" on the other. An ex-
animation of the bureaus records shows
that the tag in question, one of a spe-
cial series employed in connection with
an investigation of the rate and route
of migration of the sOckeye salmon in
the Fraser riyer-Puget Sound region,
was attached to a fish at Point Part
ridge. Whitney island, Wash, on Aug.
13. 1918. 1t is now evident that the
fish was a chinook salmon tagged by
mistake.
The fact that a chinook salmon should
be caught in a shore trap far from the
sea two years after the fish attained the
spawning condition, is interesting and
suggestive, and the wanderings of this
fish before and after tagging would be
a fascinating theme for speculation. The
dTaaaHMuzhHtweenNlaesFw gnizfssatz2phlch
If came under observation Is about GOO
miles by the most direct water route
New York Times,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-11
THE RYUKYU ISLANDS
Wome Are the Financiers Of This For.
cotton Island.

Along busy highways of ocean travel.
land links between Japan and Formosa'
not tar from China's coastwise routes
yet VISITED by only two or three white
persons a year-such are the Loo Choo.
'Lgehu or RyuKyul Islands.
+, Loo Choo is a land full of the in
d~escribable charm and mystery of The
Orient. but replete with the pathos of 4
vanishing race writes Raw anman
ciety. ~
But, although it has been 40 wears
SINCE there sounded the death knell of
tins little hidden kingdom, Loo Choo Is
not yet Japan. The traveller realizes
this. even before he lands. The nine
clothed, omb-dotted hills which form the
background of the strange little cities of
'Naha and Shuri have an unfamiliar look
and the pretty tiled roofs of the dimin-
utive houses, just visible over the sur
roundlng gray stone walls. give fascip-
atlng hints of what may be found be-
yond their lacquered gateways. On
their entire 300 square miles of land
emily rone white man, an American mis-.
%Sionary, is resident.
With our money changed ve began
to look about to spend it, for Loo Choo
is the home of the red LACQUER ware
Famous throughout the world. Much Of
. rs exported, and the finest of the boxes,
DoWlS, trays, tables, etc. which are in
daily use in japan and China and sold
70 tourists throughout the Orient, come
from the little city of Naha, on Shrri
It's nelghbor across the hills. This lar
quer ware, when first made, is a dull
DroWh' put really trst-class pieces i'm
prove with age and o change TO a
beautiful vermillion, becoming brighter
and clearer the longer they are used.
when we came to buy ~lacnuer ve
were greatly surprised to find that bar.
gaming had no place in Loo Choo. With
out exception, the first price asked for
article was the one for which it was
sold Never in the Orient had we met
with q similar condition.
1t was interesting to find, also. that
the women of Loo Choo conduct iii
business and nave charge of everything
slight exception of spending it. The
market, where in the morning trading
vegetables and fruit is carried on
resembles a suffrage meeting place. for
among the crowded mass of humanity
not a man is TO be seen.
THE straight backs and erect car.
rage of the Loo Choo women are dine 10
the custom of carrying everything mon
their heads. No matter what the object
1t large or small, il is perched mon
heir thick, black hair, and off they walk
entLy paSlng not the slightest attention
TO keeping the object in place.
The most striking thing about Naha
Shurl are the high stone walls which
surround the houses. These walls sare
generally covered by a small banyah
rec. called the goja maru. growing like
I great vine and sending out numberiess
'oots which sometimes reach a hundrea
from the original stem.
These also serve as a hiding place
or a snake, a kind Of adder, sin or sav.
N feet long, which is the curse Of the ii.
Their bite is generally fatal in
| few hours, and many. people are killed
" them eacl yeaf."-Ex
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-11

The Reformer 10 on sale evsr9 evening by
the following news dealers;
BrattleborO, Brattlebero Esws Co. c. w,
Brooks House Pharmacy, Aliens Depot News,
stand, Gilbert J. Pollica, 2T South Main St,
(Fort Drummer districtJ.
West BrattIebofo, ]. L. stoskwsl
East DummerEton, n. BrcwnL
Putney, NJ. G.. Williams.
Hewfane, N. NJ. BRtchaldsr.
West TownKhend, { q GroHt
JamRica, r ]. Daggstt.
Sourh Londonderry, r.. Ell. Tyler.
South Vernon, Y B. Buhum.
Forthaeld, Mass Thompson Bros
West ChesterAeId, II. a., Mrs. ". @ErsetsT.
HinsdAle, n. n, ". 3. Lyman.
Greenfield, Mass, Greenfield News &c.
Greenfield, Mus c. a. Hays.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-11
Today,s BIRTHDAYS.

lie Baron r. Briggs, president of Rad
cliffe college. born at Salem, Mass, 90
years ago today.
Adolph Alexander WeiHman. noted
American sculptor, born in Baden. Ger
many, 80 years ago today.
Most Rev. Henry Moeller, Roman
Catholic archbishop of Cincinnati, born
in Cincinnati, II years ago today.
Queen Elizabeth of the Belgians, we'll
remembered for her visit to America,
born in Bavaria, 40 years ago today.
Simeon ID. FesS, representative in
congress of the Swedish Ohio district,
born in Allen county, Ohio, 80 years ago
today.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-11
Library News

Books on Colonial History, life and
customs, will be found on one of the front
shelves during this month of tereentenary
celebrations of the landing of the Pill
grims.
NEW FICTION.
West Wind Drift, by George Barr Nc
Cutcheon.-A great steamship is wrecked
on a remote Inc uninhabited island and
its hundreds of passengers are left there
for years.
The Gray Angels, by Nalbro Barley
Story of a gifted young girl, first in a
small country town in Maine and later in
New York she becomes a famous singer.
The Thread Of Flame, by Basil King
"a story of lost identity. Two years after
the story opens the hero suddenly comes
to himself.
The Trumpeter Swan by Temple Bailey.
Virginia and Nantucket are delightfully."-
pictured in Miss Bailey's latest man
where the hero returns FROM France TO
find that the girl he loves has transferred
her affections to another man.
Potterism, by Rose Macaulay.-An un-
usual and brilliant story by a young Eng
lish poet showing how few people do any
independent thinking.
In the MOuntains.-A young English
woman tells in her diary of the happiness
III Y IiIllt oNlSS .1OI1S nlKu up IN the
mountains when she returns to it after
spending the years of the war in Eng
land. s.
The Captives, by Hugh Walpole.-In
this story of Maggie Cardinal, Mr.. Wal
pole shows how men and women are held
in bondage by their beliefs.
Enemies of Women, by Blasco Ibanez.
Monte Carlo in war time is where and
when Prince Miguel Fedor Lubimoff or
ganizes the society of The Enemies. Of
Women. This completes the trilogy of
war novels, the first two being The Four
Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and More
NOStrom.
The Wind Between the Worlds. by Alice
Brown.-A novel of present day Boston
with spiritualistic tendencies.
The Little House, by Conningsby Daw-
son.-"An old little house in an old little
square in an old little corner of London"
tells its own story.
MAJ of Placid, by Thomas Morris
Longstreth.-A story of the A~dirondacks
which brings in Robert Louis Stevenson as
one of the hero's friends.
Long Traverse, by Mrs. Katherine s..
Pinkerton and Robert f. Pinkerton.-
Hating the Hudson Bay Company, the
hero endeavors to establish a rival trading
post at Fort Mystery.
fenitentlary Post, by the same au-
thors, is another story of the northIand
where the hero finds the fort he has been
sent to take charge of haunted by an evil
spirit.
The Adventurous Lady, by j. G. Smith.
--The heroine and a governess going to
the same country town, where neither of
them are known, agree to change places.
The Elders People, by Harriet Prescott
Spoford.-Short stories of New England
life.
Mary WOllastOn. by Henry Kitchell
l.Febster.-The love story of a modem
American girl.
In the House of Another, by Beatrice
Mantle.-A mystery story with an I'M
usual plot.
House of Lynch, by Leonard Merrick.-
When Richard Keith falls in love with
Betty Lynch he refuses to touch a penny
OF her fathers because of the misery Il
had brought to many people.
A Woman Named Smith. bv Marie
Oemler.-Written before The Purple
Heights, this story of love and mystery
IN R little South Carolina town will be
enjoyed by many.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-11
TOday's Anniversaries.

1475-Pope Leo Y, who instituted the
religious ceremonies that take
place in the Sistine Chapel dur
ing Holy week, born in Florence.
Died in Rome Dec. 1, 1921.
~1777-Washington's army went into
winter quarters at Valley Forge,
1S2O-U. $. senate passed the bill adj
hitting Missouri to the Union.
1S39-Members of the house of repre-.
resentatives INDUCED for the first
time in the practice of pairing
off,.
1S4-The English ministry under Sir
Robert Peel resigned.
1S01-Queen Isabella of Spain par,
doned the American flibusters
taken in a descent upon Cuba.
1S92-First street-railway mail car in
the world put into operation in
st. Louis.
191S-Discussion of a ~prolongation of
the armistice began at Treves.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-11
The News From Browns Creek.

Early last Sunday morning Mrs. John
Cofheld, who, lives near the southwest
corner of this township, died after an
illness of less than two weeks.
MIR. and Mrs. Will G.. Wilson were
called to Jamestown Saturday as Mr..
Wilson's mother died that morning.
Miss Allie Holloway is in the Beloit
hospital where she underwent an opera
ton Monday morning.
Mrs. Mart Baylie attended the fun
eral of an uncle at Hastings, Nebr., Fri
day.
1t seems as if every one has colds and
cold feet.
Wish we knew several good items this
cool morning, we sure would write them
down.-Brownis Greek items.
Cheer up. Something may happen in
a few DAYS,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-11
In the DAVIS News

Henry F. Lfppitt, mentioned for the
post of secretary of in the
next cabinet, is serving his second term
as United States senator from Rhode
Island. Senator Lippitt is a native and
resident of Providence. He was gradu-
ated from Brown university in 1878 and
entering the cotton mills, worked his
way from the ranks of a day operator
up to the position of general manager.
The interrelations of banking and man
ufacturing soon led him into many di-
rectorates in banks and trading corpor.
atoms. In 1911 he was selected by the
Republicans of Rhode Island to serve in
the United States senate and at the con-
clusion of his first term he was re-
elected. In the senate Mr.. Lippitt has
been on the committees dealing with in
terstate and the Philippines.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-11
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A Revision Needed.
bennington Banner.O

The country needs a few blue laws but
not the same old ones. If the old kind
ever were of any value they ceased to
be a working force long ago and are now
worse than nothing as they cannot be
enforced. A majority of the people of
Vermont would welcome a sensible law
regulating the observance of Sunday. 1t
is unfair to merchants and clerks whose
stores are operated for reasonable hours
to be exposed to the competition Of new
coming aliens, who deal in similar lines
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-11
Save While the Savings Good.
Randolph Herald.)

The mill hands in Winooski, deprived
OF work for some time, are said to be in
a pltiable condition, with actual want
present in many homes. While they are
objects of charity their claim would be
stronger if in the flush times of the past
few years they had laid by a bit for a
rainy day, and this had at length failed
them. Thrift, Horatiol
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-11
70 TIE ~aunsCRTnrRa

~ n ohS aim OF the manAKsmsns o seSars
sficISnI service In the delivery Of the papa,
each night, and It ~solieits the cooperation Of
subacriberS 20 that end Prompt reports should
on the morning following the omission, In
person, by telephone OF postal card, thus On,
abliAg the cause of the error 60 be promptly
and sccuTRtely discovered and the proper ram
edy Immediately applied Il 10 only ~ thiI
method that tbs publiahss can secure tAs de-
sired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-11
A Sure and Short Road To Fame.

I'D Clough's name was blazed high to
heaven, in Y point caps, in one of the
Portsmouth papers recently. Mr.. Clough
had been sampling a patent medicine.
Twenty of his friends at once invested
IN the said tonic just to see what had
attracted Ed to it. It was apparently
sound, safe and succeSsful.-Portsmouth
Journal