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The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-07-12
Found Excuse for Him.

one day. was much scandalized to see
man walk up to woman and kiss
her. He evidently thought it over,
however. for he said presently: "Well,
perhaps he is one of her ancestors" =
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-07-12
Var and Peace.

The difference between war and
peace is, in war people are united
against ii common enemy; in peace.
zach man has blood in his eye and hits
anybody within reach.-Houston Post.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-07-12

AeIpfulness Its Own Reward.
Never let yourself worry as to
whether those you help will be sufi-
GENTLY grateful. Think Of helpfulness
as it's own great reward.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-07-12
Benefits Must Be Paid.

1t is a law of the gods which Is new
er broken. to sell somewhat dearly the
great benefits which they confer ON
uS.-Corneille.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-19
Grandfather's Way.


Since the day that John Barleycorn
Passed from the nation
Substitute drinks have been holding their |
sway;
And poisonous drinks
Have appeared on the station,
Tho some of the drinkers. are now passed
away.
In nv grandfather's time,
How well / remember
The home brew he made on hot sum
mer's day;
And when | went calling,
Along in September,
They still had some brew made in grand
fathers way.
A sparkling, bubbling,
Light amber nectar
Made from pure grains blessed by sun
and by dew;
And all of the folks
Who lived in that sector
Had nothing but praise for my grand
fathers brew.
Let me tell you his method,
The way that he made it.
This marvellous beverage made long ago;
A tonic for sick folks,
A Joy for the well ones,
Now all listen carefully and make it just
so.
just few pounds of malt
And be sure they're the purest,-
The kind that was kissed by the sun and
the dew;
Then a handful of hops,
And some pure sparkling water,
That's the first preparation in making
| home brew
Now to brew it, you stew it;
Watch DER it carefully;
Don't let it boil much, just simmer il
we'll;
Md sugar and ferment,
Then bung it up tightly;
You've a drink for the gods when it sits
for spell.
The malt is for extract,
The hops for the favor,
Add corn for the kick if you want it tina
way;
To brew It you stew it,
: But don't overdo it.
That's the drink thai they made in m,
grandfather's day.
The world would be better,
: The people more happy,
1 And sickness would leave us, I've hear
old folks say,
e If we'd drink of this nectar.
t This pure sparkling beverage.
n Made from the grains in my grandfather
way.
d Brattleboro. E. L. T.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-19
Vermont's Americanisul.
New York World.)

Although since early days consistently
Wing or Republican in politics, Vermont,
without great riches or aristrocratic pre-
tension, has always prided itself upon its
democracy Before the declaration its
Green Mountain boys were as ready to fight
New York and Massachusetts over bound
airy disputes as later on they were eager
to meet the Kings armies. 1t is the first
state admitted to the union under the
constitution.
In keeping with its traditions, Gov
Clement declines the invitation Of the
governor of Maine to join in opposition to
the suit of the state of Rhode Island for
the annulment of the eighteenth amend
ment. His reasons are that the country,
Vermont included, was committed to pro-
hibtion by methods ''as corrupt as have
ever been used in legislation in the United
States;9 that the people are opposed 10
the measure by large majority, and that
unless it shall be rejected by the court at
| must bring trouble to us alL,ae Standing by
the side of Rhode Island and New jersey
in this contention, Vermont will be in
good American company, as it was in 80
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-19
Smoke Masks for Firemen.
Barre Times)


The experience of Chief Courcelle of the
Rutland fire department in trying to res
cue some valuable papers from the Grimm
factory during the height of a serious fire
IN that plant calls to attention the need
Tor equipping tiremen with practical and
satisfactory smokemasks providing the
market carries such equipment, which has
been tried out to the satisfaction of ex-
perts. Chief Courcelle adjusted a smoke
mask to his face before entering the smoke
hlled Grimm factory but for some reason
the mask became dislocated and the chief
was barely able to get out of the build.
lng being nearly overcome by smoke and
gas. A practical and satisfactory smoke
mask might have enabled him to perform
the mission without subiecting him to
danger of sutfocation. We recall similar
incident few years ago in the Reynolds
store tire in Barre when the chief of the
lire department then, c. B. Gladding, en-
tered the first floor of the building to de-
termine the exact location of the fire and
unprovided with a mask, he was almost a
victim of smoke before he could break his
way out by smashing the glass 1t is prob
able that smo6emask has not been per.
fected that will enable person to stay
long in a smoke-filled building but the
equipment is of sufficient stage of develop.
ment to permit hurried inspection of a
building without serious menace to the
firemen. Every up-to-date fire depart
ment ought to carry number of these
masks SO that they can be used in an
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-19
TO DARKEN HAIR
APPLY SAGE TEA
Look Youngi Bring Back the Natural
Color Gloss and
Attractiveness.

Common garden sage brewed into
heavy tea with sulphur added, will turn
gray, streaked and faded hair beauti-
fully dark and lHxuriant. Just few
applications will prove a revelation if
your hair is fading, streaked or gray.
Mixing the Sage Tea and Sulphur recipe
at home, though, is troublesome. An
easier way is to get bottle of Wyeth s
Sage and Sulphur Compound at any drug
store all ready for use This is the old
time recipe improved by the addition
of other ingredients.
While wispy, gray, faded hair is not
sinful. we all desire to retain our youth
full appearance and attractiveness. BY
darl1ening your hair with Wyeth s Sage
and Sulphur Compound, no one can tell,
because it does it so naturally, so even
ly. You just dampen sponge or soft
brush with it and draw this through your
hair, taking one small strand at time;
by morning all gray hairs have disap-
peared and. after another application
or two your hair becomes beautifully
dark, glossy, soft and luxuriant.-Ad
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-19
Listening In
(Northfeld News ]

Those that are "seein things are always
suspicious of that man Fletcher and the
newspapers We were listening in the
other evening when it was suggested that
the ex-governor was a second Col. House
to the Brattleboro Reformer, confidential
adviser of the Free Press and close friend
of the editor of the Rutland Herald This
isn't all they said, either. Just as we were
going to ask if they really thought he
was running the st. Adams Messenger or
telling the Argus what to say, the meeting
broke up. You see he rode from Brattle-
boro to Bellows Falls with 'Eph. Crane.
met Hindley on the Rutland train, and
Southwick at the depot in Burlington.
What more proof do you want? Ludlow
Tribune please copy
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-19

In Schenectady, n. Y, where the Mo-
hawk river is likely to run wild every
spring, the commissioner of public safe
ty has ordered the construction of FIVE
large fatbottomed boats for use in
time of flood for the rescue of those
who live in the lowlands of the citv
The reputation the Winooski river has
in the vicinity of our capitol city leads
US to wonder if this wouldn't be a
good suggestion for the Noah of Mont.
pelier to follow.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-19
Today's Events

Centenary of the birth of John Tuigg,
for many years bishop OF the Roman
Catholic diocese of Pittsburgh.
The annual convention of the Melon
Distributors Association of America will
meet at Atlanta today for a three-day
session.
Seventy five thousand business men
and others have been invited to attend
the fourth annual community conference,
to be opened at Columbus today.
Stockholders of the Grand Trunk rail
way system meet in London today to
ratify the agreement between the. Ca
madam government and the company for
the acquisition of the system.
The National Society for Vocational
Education and the Vocational Education
Association of the Middle West will open
a joint convention at Chicago today.
Hearing of the appeal of Victor Ber-
ger, convicted of interfering with the
draft, which was docketed for the Circuit
Court of Appeals at Chicago today, has
been postponed until next month.
After a'lapse of several years because
of the war German opera is to be re-
stored to the repertory of the Metro
|politan Opera Company of New York
with matinee performance of Parsifal
today.
S An unofficial state convention of the
Republicans of New York viii assemble
in New York city today to select slate
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-19
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1920.
THE SMALL TOWN PROBLEM.

Under the above heading the Orleans
County Monitor prints an interesting
editorial which is republished else
where in this issue. The suggestion of |
of their highways and schools and APP
praisal of property for taxation and
assessment of tax rate certainly is
rather radical Whether the people of
the state would approve of such a move
is questionable as it takes these rights
away from all the towns, not simply
from those small towns unable to sup
port town government.
The Monitor shows that at one time
four towns in Orleans county contained
sixty-one per cent of the taxable prop
erty in the whole county and twenty
FIVE per cent of highway mileage of
the county. The other fourteen towns
possessed thirty-nine per cent of the
taxable property and seventy five per
cent of the highway mileage. The in
equality of the highway burden of the
two classes of towns is evident. But
the state has already granted large
degree of relief to poor towns by as
sessing an equal highway tax on all
towns and cities and dividing the reve-
nue. according to the ratio of the high
way mileage of town to the total
mileage of state; also by distributing
the large fund from automobile licenses
among the towns according to needs
rather than population. The small
towns receive hundreds of thousands
of money more each year than they
contribute to state highway funds. The
Monitor might also have given the fur
Their fact that the fourteen towns of
that county mentioned contained in
1910 only AZ per cent of the population
of the county. The proposed change
then would work to the advantage of
less than so per cent of the whole
people in that county. Would the other
53 per cent of the people be willing to
vote more of their rights to the min
ority2
| The Reformer does not attribute to
the town the same saeredness as the
Monitor. The laying out of the towns
when the state was practically solid
wilderness may have been an engineer
ing equality but it completely ignored
the topography of the territory and the
natural centers of civilization anC
trade. For more than a century the
people of Vermont have preserved The
acreage of its municipal divisions al
the expense and inconvience of tn,
people. It would seem proper now tt
consider the needs and convience oil
the people rather than to continue the
supremacy of acres.
We still believe the suggestion OF
the Reformer, made early last spring
that towns separated by hills and noun
tains into isolated communities be di
vided so the sections would be mad,
parts of the towns to which they nat
urally gravitate is proper There arr
towns so small and poor they should
give up their town charters and be an
nexed to other towns or made state ter
ritory. This would reduce slightly The
number of representatives in the legis
lature, the expense of state govern
ment and make town representation
more representation of the people
and taxpayers than of back pastures
and wasted wood lots.
The traveller will no longer have Il
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-19
Todav,s Anniversaries.

1872 Charles Chauncy, one of the earli-
est American educators and the
second president of Harvard, died
at Cambridge, Mass. Born in Eng
land, Nov. 5 1892
179S-Sir Allen f. McNab. Canadian pre-
mier, born at Niagara, Ont. Died
at Toronto, Aug. s, 1862.
lS43-Adelina Patti, for many years the
worlds greatest singer, born at
Madrid. Died at her home in
Wales, Sept. p, 1919.
lS46-J. P. Henderson was inaugurated
first state governor of Texas.
lS55-Lord Palmerston organized his
first cabinet as prime minister OF
England.
lS9l-Prof Alexander Winchell, eminent
geologist, died at Ann Arbor, Mich
Born in 1924.
lS95-The Khedive of Egypt signed q
marriage contract with his favor
lite slave.
btu. S. House of Representatives
passed a bill carrying out the pro
visions of the treaty for the pur
chase of the Danish West Indies.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-19

and automobiles as a cat
alogue just issued by well-known tour
ist agency devotes one page to aerial
trips that can be taken in the United
States and Europe. The journeys list
ed are between points which would hold
interest for the sight and cannot
help but appeal to those who are always
eager to try the new and novel. But
this mode of transportation will not be
new and novel for long. 1t has come
and come to stay.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-19

The city of North Adams was con
fronted by the horse and hack problem
during the recent storm period. An I'M
usual number of funerals caused a
scarcity of these vehicles and all avail
able animals were so overworked by
the hard travelling in the deep snow
that the board of health was forced to
issue an order that not more than three
carriages should be used at any one
funeral. Any town or city within the
zone of heavy snow storms is likely
to face sooner or later a similar sitna.
ton.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-19
Little Benny's
Note Book
The Park Ave. News.
WdN.
Brattleboro
By LEE PAPE

Exter Exter! Big Flood Caused
by a Leek. Last Wensdav Sid Hunt
hawt a fountain pen for 10 sents and
the man told him it wouldent leek no
matter if he carried it up side down
or eny wich way, 50 Sid Hunt put it
in his pockit up side down to find out,
and wen he got undressed at mite there
was ink on everything he took off
and some things he dident, sutch as
his side ribs
Spoarts. Leroy Shooster is lerning
how to skate backwards on his new
roller skates. witch vile he was prack-
tieing last Thersdav he bumped into
6 things, being fire plug. Pubs Sim
kins, a tree, some kid pushing push
cart, and the push cart he was push
ing, and Flatfoot the cop.
Pome by Skinny Martin.
They Fall Easy Enywav
I bountced our baby in the air
And did my best not to drop it.
But my mother sed, ''Wats YOU do
ing there2'
And immeedtly made me stop It.
Intristing Faells About Intristing
People. Artie Alexander loves pets
and wouldent hardly know wat to do
without one, some of the ones he has
had being a short tail goat, a little
dog with big bark, a flee in a round
pill box, a lady eat and a chickin lest
big enuff to come out of egg and not
big enuf to lay eny
Advertisement Cure your Children
frum suffering. We will follow them
GROUND and hit them over the he'd with
a stuffed stocking every time they STINT
ter without charge jest for the plez-
zure. See Reddy Merry and Ed Wer-
nick.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-19
Today's BIRTHDAYS,

George Sisler, first baseman of the st.
Louis American league baseball team.
born at Nimisila, Ohio, 26 years ago to-
day.
Gen. Aware Oregon, Mexican war min
lister and candidate for the presidency
born in the. state of Sonora, 40 years ago
today.
Maj. Gen. William Crozier, U. S. A..
retired, who served as chief of ordnance
during the war, born at Carrollton, Ohio,
90 years ago today.
General Sir Henry Sinclair Horne, one
OF the prominent British commanders on
the western front in the great war, born
SO years ago today.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-19
In the Days News.

Robert Underwood Johnson, who is ex-
pected to succeed Thomas Nelson Page
as United States ambassador to Italy, is,
like his predecessor, man of letters
For many years he was editor of one of
the leading American magazines and he
has also written verse which has found
a steady sale and much popularity. Aside
from his purely literary activities Mr..
johnson has found time to originate or
assist in numerous efforts to achieve
fine public ends. He was the first secre-
tary of the American Academy of Arts
and Letters and forceful figure in the
movement to bring about a system of in
ternational copyright. He originated
the memorial to Keats and Shallev in
Rome and started the movement which
resulted in the establishment of the ma
tional park system of the United States.
More recently, Mr.. Johnson led the cam
.paign among American authors to send
ambulances to Italy during the war.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-19

!, The Reformer is on sale every evening by
the following news dealers:
Brattleboro, Brattleboro News Co., c. w.
Cleaveland, S. L. Purintos lEsteyville)
Brooks House Pharmacy, Aliens Depot News
Cert Drummer DISTRICT.
West Brattleboro, J. L. StockwsIl.
East Dummerston, M. Z. Brown.
Putney, NJ G. Williams.
Newfane, N. M. Batchelder.
West Townshend, c. Fl. Grout.
Jamaica, r. ]. Daggett
South Londonderry, F. Fl. Tyler.
South Vernon, Z. B. Buffums
West Chesterfield, n. r., Mrs. w. kfrsster.
Hinsdaie, N. H., w. FL. Lyman.
Greenfield, Mass, Greenfield News C.
Greenfield, Mass, c. A Hays.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-19
Old Sores, Ulcers
andEczema Vanish
Good, Old, Reliable Petersonss oint-
ment Favorite Remedy.

Had 81 ulcers on my legs. Dectors wanted
to cut off leg. Peterson's Ointment cured me- 2
WIN ]. Nichols, 402 Wilder Street, Rochester
n. Y.
Get large box for only IS cents at any
druggist, says Peterson, of Buffalo, and money
back if IT isn't the best you ever used. Always
keep Peterson's Ointment in the house Fine
tor burns, scalds, bruises, sunburn, chahne
and the surest remedy for itching eczema and
piles the world has ever known
Peterson's Ointment is the best for bleeding
and itching piles | have ever found MAR I
Charles E. Whitney. Vineyard Haven. Mass
Petersons Ointment has given great salts
faction for Salt Rheum. Mrs. ]. Weiss. Cuv.
lerville, Ny.
All druggists sell it, recommend il. Mail
orders filed by Peterson Ointment Co., Inc
Buffalo, n Y.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-19
TO THE SUBSCRIBERS.

Il 10 the aim of the management to sscure
efficient service in the delivery of the paper
each night, and it solicits the cooperation of
subscribers to that end. Prompt reports should
be given of each failure to receive the paper
on the morning following the omission, in
person, by telephone or postal card, thus en-
abling the cause of the error to be promptly
and accurately discovered and the proper rem
edy Immediately applied. It 10 only by this
method that the publisher can secure the de-
sired servica
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-19
The Outlook Promising.
bennington Banner.1

TI1tIIlIIIIetVII '7tFtElfNIF 2
Only five states are needed to ratity the
suffrage amendment. 1t begins to look as
though the women will get the vote this
year even though Governor Clement Is not
willing to permit Vermont women to share
in the victory.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-19

You may have thought that ice would
be cheaper the coming season because
there was such a plentiful supply mere
ly waiting to be harvested, but as one
cartoonist sees it, it will probably raise
in price because it is so thick it will
cost more to cut it. Time will tell if
this is more than mere joke.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-19
TO ADVERTISERS.

Transient advertising-Run of paper, 9 cents
an inch for first insertion, Is cents an inch
for each subsequent insertion. Limited space
on first page at double rates.
Classified advertisements-Five cents line
first insertion with 50 per cent discount for
each subsequent insertion without change of
copy. Minimum charge 20 cents. Cash with
order
Reading Notices-Twenty cents per line first
insertion with 50 per cent discount for ecch
subsequent insertion without change of copy.
Reading notices are published At foot of local
items.
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Important in Daily Use.

Affability, mildness, tenderness and
a word which | wouls fain bring back
to its original Specification of virtue
| mean good nature--are of daily use
they are the bread of mankind and
staff of life.-Dryden.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-19
A Sweeping Statement.
Barre Times

Gov Clement may be asked to explain
just what he means by saying that the
prohibition amendment was Sc
cured by "as corrupt methods as have ever
been used in legislation in the United
States 1t is very sweeping statement
and capable of very sinister interpreta-
fiop
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-19

of four delegates t-large to be recon-
mended for election in the primaries. 1t
is expected that the slate will be made
mp of Elihu Root, William Boyce Thomp
sen, and Senators Wadsworth and Calder.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-19
Snail Things Really Count.

Life is made up, not of great sacri-
fees or duties, but of little things, in
which smiles and kindnesses, and small
obligations, given habitually, are what
win and preserve the heart and secure
comfort.-Sir Humphrey Davy.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-19

emergency; and it goes without saying
that emergencies are quite likely to arise,
as they did in the Grimm factory fire re
Gently and the Reynolds store fire in
\ Barre few years ago.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-19

The influenza epidemic is said to be
at an end in New York city
and that in Boston subsiding rapidly.
When such an epidemic is conquered in
the big cities we feel that the worst
is over.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-19
Member Of The As,ociated Presa.

The Associated Presa 10 exclusively en-
titled to the use for publication of all news
dispatches credited to it and not otherwise
credited in this paper and also the local news
published herein.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-19

There s always something empty. We
get the sugar bowl filled only to find
that the coal bod needs attention.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-19

As Washington's Birthday falls ON
Sunday a good suggestion as to its OBJ
servance would be to go to church.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-19

Mr.. Wilson S cabinet still has two
busy Bis in the hive-Baker and Burl.
eson,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-19
One Year Ago Today in the War.

On his way to the Peace Conference
Premier Clemenceau was shot by an an
archist, but not seriously wounded.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-19

The traveller will no longer have to
confine himself to railroad trains,