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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-05-04

than SIX or seven months in the year at
best. 1t is good luck more than good
road making, as a rule. that permits
much heavy travel before the middle of
May, and if it runs into the middle of
November it is the exception, rather than
the rule.
Furthermore, when one deducts the
days of bad going freshet storms. !
washout handicaps and the hazard and
delay of the usual intermittent summer
/, weather, it is clear enough that the net
season for ship-b truck traffic is pretty
short-shorter, i'll fact. than it should
be, shorter than it would be if we had
better system of roads and a comprehen-
sive, scientific plan of road making.
| Such plan can never be laid out or
carried through until the towns of the
state consent to having the business OF
| building and maintaining the trunk line
or selected highways done by the state
under the direction of competent engi
neer and without the Interpolation Of
local politics, jealousies and incompetence
III this very serious business of road
making.
! Politics has been the curse of Vermont
road making for 80 years; it is the curse
OF any business that requires careful.
scientific preparation and honestly done
work. Until we take Vermont roads out
of local politics we shan't accomplish
tanything along the line of good roads in
Nermont that is, roads good enough to
handle ship truck freight six TO eight
months in the year cts eight to ten
months in the year where they have hard
surfaced roads.
w baya fol lynI much about GOOD
roads i'll the past 10 years that people
are tired of hearing about it. They
ought to be tired. and they ought tc
have bad roads Just so long as they send
men to Montpelier who utterly refuse t.
consider any plan for state road making
that would interfere with their pleasant
little annual custom OF electing Il good
| local politician as road commissioner
road making to Tom, Dick and Harry
who always vote right when they'r,
wanted.
The sooner the voters of Vermont
towns realize that it takes brains t.
build roads trained, expensive brains
and the authority TO apply these brain,
to the whole problem-thc sooner the,
will be in sight of better roads. Ant
gust so long as they "fooI around WITT
patchwork road making and petty pc
gitical local graft in that business, just
SO long will things get worse, rather thai
better, because the truck problem is Will
Us even now.
) Neighbor Parker of the Bradford con
temporary said mouthful" when Ii,
emphasized the Importance of the ship
by-truck movement in these days of rail
road strikes, freight embargoes and gen
eral decentralization of the railroad ser
/ vice by the Bolshevik elements fostereC
by wartime railroad administration b,
politicians.
The question is: Will Neighbor Parke
or some other Bradford neighbor be il
) the legislature of 1927 prepared to carr!
his reasonable and progressive IDEAS int
effect
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-05-04
A REAL HAIR SAVER
Found at Last. Partisan Sage Show
Results i'm Three Days.

If Won are rapidly losing your hair
and fear badness. w. +. Root wants
you to try Partisan sage at their risk.
1t win quickly stop the excessive loss
of hair and make your hair and scalp
look and feel 100 per cent better, or
money refunded.
Hundreds of men and women have
written telling of the wonderful re-
suits obtained by using Partisan sage.
People who were getting bald say they
now glory in their beautiful hair.
Others who have had dandruff for
years and the head itched like mad
say they had clean, healthy scalp
after just a few applications of this
splendid home treatment.
No matter whether bothered with
falling hair, gray hair, stringy, dull,
brittle. oily hair, dandruff of itching
scalp, try Partisan sage today on this
money back offer. A large bottle is
inexpensive at drug stores everywhere,
and if your hair is worth saving Paris.
ian sage is surely worth trying.-Adv.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-05-04
Today Events

Sir Louis H Davies, chief Justice 81
lanada, celebrates his 18th birthday to
day
In general primaries today California
md Indiana will choose their delegates to
The national party conventions.
Judge George Gray. the eminent Del
WARE jurist once considered as prcsi
lentlal possibility, is 80 years old TODAY
The activity of labor candidates has
roused considerable interest in the mu
1lcipal election to be held today in st
Paul
Delegates from many countries are il
gather IN Paris today to attend an inter
national parliamentary convention of com
mercc.
Kentucky Democrats are to meet il
state convention at Louisville TODAY tc
name their delegates to the San Francisco
convention
The supreme court of Canada is to give
rehearing today in the case brought tc
est the powers of the board of commerce
IS price-fixing tribunal
Nine. Tetrazzini and other world famou,
singers are to be heard at the Spartanburg
:. G., music festival, which is to be re
mmed today after two years interruption
n account of the war
The Nonpartisan league and other so
allied radical organizations meet in con
vention at Lincoln today to arrange 70,
entering full set of candidates in tn,
coming state election in Nebraska.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-05-04
| FEEL TWENTY
YEARS YOUNGER
That Is What Contractor
Says After Tanlac Rid
Him of Troubles

You can tell the public that Tan
lac has made me feel better than bayos
done for years past, and that il is the
best medicine | have ever tried ,, saiJ
W. j. Graves, builder and eon,ra.tor
OF, College street. Poultnev. Nermo,t
when the Tanlac representative called
to see him.
For fully a year past / had had
acute indigestion. After a meal NV fooJ
would feel just like / had swallowed a
lump of lead. NY stomach would get
as sour as gall, and the gas wo1ld
form and bother me lot. | had fire.
quent dizzy spells. especially in the
mornings, that would make me staooar
IKE a drunken man. also used to have
acute pains in the small of NV back
ana my Kidneys gave me lot of iron.
BILE at night 1 got so nervons n lot
tlat could not keep still. and mas So
shaky all over that / could NOT bo1d =
pen steady enough to write NV name
l must have spent n small fortrr no'l n,'
heulcines, trying TO get relief but
none of them ever helped me and 7 aat
very low-spirited indeed.
1t was a statement in the nonor
winch first suggested to me that T
should try Tanlac. and Pm real aIoJ
did, for two bottles of that mndicina
settled all my troubles and put me into
good shape again. / began to cat het
ter than | had done for months mast
and found that l was no longer iron
bled with Indigestion, sourness of tho
stomach and gas. l ceased to have
those dizzy spells; I lost that shaki-
ness, and my nerves are now as steady
as You please. The pains in NV back
nave disappeared, and my kidneys are
now IN good working order. / am
stronger and better in every wav. and
am feeling fully twenty years Young
er. 1t s a pleasure to recommend smell
medicine as Tanlac, for it does all
and more than is claimed for ito
1anlac IS sold in Brattleboro by tn,
< Brattleboro Drug Co, and in South Lon
I, donderry by Geo. G.. Smith.-Adv.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-05-04
Little Benny's
Note Book
BY LEE pAPE
BY LEE PAPE.

lestldday | saw Mr. Lewis on the
street and he gave me a raped up box
to take home to pop. Wich | started to,
and some of the fellows was playing a
game OF marbles i'll the next block, and |
put the raped up box on somebody's
trunt steps and got in the game on ac-
count of me having Z marbles, witch in
about 20 minnits | dident have eny and
kepp on going home, and after suppir pop
sed to ma, Mother, did Lewis stop heer
today with a packidge for me, And ma
sed, No, and pop sed, Confownd it. not
thing to smoak and | Jest had my mouth
all set for one of those segars, waite till
| see Lewis tomorrow, III ball him out
good and proper, wait till | get hold OF
him. that's all
Ne thinking, Gosh, G. | bet that was
the box. Meening the raped up one, and
sod, Maybe it wasent his fault, pop
maybe he lost them or something.
Who asked YOU for eny foolish conso
lation? sed pop, and ! sed, Well mayb,
he started to bring them, pop and mayb,
something happened to them on the way
maybe.
Stop tawking like fish out of wattir
wat do YOU Suppose could posserbly hav
happened to them? sed pop and I sed
| Maybe he gave them to somebody to TAX
| come, sutch as me and maybe | lef
! them on somebody's frunt steps vile
played marbles and then forgot them
| Wich pop jest stared at me as if he diden
| know who was dreeming. him or me, ant
| | sed, sShal I run down now. pop anC
Sc If they're still there?
| You bring those segars to me inside o
20 minnits or take the consequences, se'
pop. Wich ] quick ran down to tn
place and nuthing wasent there but tn
bare frunt steps and | rang the bell an'
/ a lady came to the door and | asked he
| If cuybodv had saw a raped up box, an
she sed, Ny GOODNESS, my husbind wont h
pleased at all. he was hoping nobod
would come for those segars, and he
emoaked allreddy And she brawt on
The box with scgars out, and pop wa
50 glad to get the rest he never scd cny
thing about the ,. so ! didcnt haif t
take eny consequences.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-05-04

chief justice of Canada, who celebrates his
seventy-fifth birthday today, has had a
long and distinguished career i'll the pub
lie service \ native of Prince Edward
Island, he began to take an active in
terest in public affairs soon after being
called to the bar, while still in his early
,wcntics. In 1877 having already at
.aimed high standing in his chosen pro-
fession, he was employed as one of the
British counsel before the international
Fisheries commission, which met at Hal
fax i'll that year. Subsequently he served
ON several other important commissions
for the settlement of differences between
Canada and the United States. Mean
while he was gaining prominence in pol
tiles, serving in the legislative assembly
md becoming premier of Prince Edward
Island. leader of the Liberal party in tn,
Maritime provinces, and, in 1896, enterin.
the federal government as minister o
marine and fisheries under the Laurel
administration. Since 1901 he has beer
1 member of the supreme court of Canada
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-05-04
RAILROADS WILL ASK MORE.
Want an Increase of so Per Cent il
Freight Rates.

HARTFORD. Conn. Nav 4.-Rail-
roads east Of the Mississippi and north
of the Ohio and Potomac have agreed
to ask for 80 per cent increase in
freight rates. r. g. auckland. vice pres
ideut of the New York, New Haven &
Hartford railroad said yesterday. These
roads cover what is known as the official
classification territory. He added that
they will demand no increase in ex-
press passenger rates. but that the inter
state commerce commission may see fit
to raise some communication rates which
are so low as to make the lines unprof-
liable.
The 80 per cent IS needed because of
increased costs of labor and materials
since the beginning of the war, Mr..
auckland said
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-05-04
TUESDAY, MAY (, 1920.
GOOD ADVICE TO VERMONT.

Connecticut people are talking in the
puddle press little about Vermont
Perhaps some Vermonters reading it
viii recall the remark of that old sue
cessful business man who said he did
not care what people said about him if
they only kept him in mind Here is
part of communication by a Hartford,
Conn. business man published in the
Hartford Daily Courant written in re
ply to son of Vermont who haze re-
-cntcd a former criticism by said bust
ness man:
- But great guns. Mr.. Editor. l didn t
criticize auvhody-I merely criticized
Vermont methods, and that IS quite inn
personal l think. | said the business
spirit of Vermont was dead and | wish
hereby to contribute the embalming
duid. He speaks of Dewey and of Cool
idge "a two famous sons of Old Yer
mont. May their fame never die, But
Dewey won his fame in Cuba and Cool
idge in Boston Is there consolation
for Nermonters here Contrast this
with the fame of our own Mark Twain,
who won his wreath right here OH Farm
ington avenue Your correspondent
speaks of Vermont as raising great men
and passing them on to its less for
tunate sisters This is indeed praise
worthy. But Just to show you how ig-
norant | am. | always thought that the
Vermont boys, just as soon as they
got their railroad fare, attended to this
passing on themselves. | wonder
what great hole in Connecticut eff
cheney was so magnanimously filled by
Old Vermont s passing on your CORE
spondent?
And then he speaks of his old col
| lege town, Burlington. Folks who
haven't ever visited Burlington have
missed seeing one of the prettiest col
praise it too much for its beauty. His
| Alma Mater, the University of Yer
mont. is set on the crest of the Forgot
ten. But if George Washington had
climbed that hill and looked around he
would have seen more industry than
your correspondent can today, for re
member, please, that Vermont has 9
brilliant Colonial history.
''Please allow me to say to your CORE
spondent that am sorry if my criticism
of his state has offended him, but
should have taken his resentment many
times more to heart if his communica
ton had borne Vermont instead of
Connecticut date line. Vermont ian
cuisines. No one denies that. What sh
needs is more stay at home sons VIII
will bring her back where she belongs
Empty praise from another state won
| help her any Honest criticism Will.
| Vermonters generally will not sub
NIT to an application of embalmin
i fluid but they will admit the truth o
II the writer's statement that what Ven
/ mont needs Sis more stay at home son
II who will bring her back where she be
II longs.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-05-04

generous treatment possible for men
that have been injured in the service
of the United States. and also for
proper care of the dependents of those
men who have been killed, but ! cannot
bring myself merely for consideration
of political advantage to vote for q bill
which would impose tax of $50 a head
on every man, woman and child in the
country.
There is no conceivable way. or, at
least, no way has been suggested ny
which such an amount of money could
he raised which would not paralvzc the
industries of the United States and pre-
cipitate such a crisis as we have never
seen in our history. Hard times unques
tionablv are coming, whatever we may
10. but while we cannot avert Difficult
lies we can tremendously aggravatc
them.
Considering the low purchasing power
of money today and also the general
tendency of all classes toward cxtrav-
| agance $500 means about as much to a
boy today as SO or 500 would have
meant to US. and we may rest assured
| that nine tcnths of the men receiving
| this money will spend it on Il good time
and not work until it is all gone. After
that they will try to get back the jobs
that they held and find that they are
| no longer existent 50 that their last
state will be worse than the first.
Possibly Mr.. Pell's course will mean
political suicide, but n great body of
people, including members of the Ameri
can Legion itself. are not ready to
plunge this country into such an over
whclming indebtedness as the proposed
bonus plan would entail. Like the New
York congressman they favor the most
generous treatment possible for men VIII,
were injured in the service, but ar,
averse to prostituting the nation : pa
triotism by putting a price on it.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-05-04
Sporting Notes.

John kilonis, the Manchester, \. II.
ireek wrestler who used to appear il
Brattleboro when Fritz Hanson operated
here, will open a confectionery establish
ment in New Bedford, Mass, this week
Nilonis has already expended nearly
$4,000 on the project The mat artist
5 one of the wealthiest of his profession
and has interests in business establish
ments in Manchester. n H.. and Nor
folk, Va. The hotel, which he owns ii
the latter city, he plans on selling soon.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-05-04
MAY NOT MEAN SUICIDE.

Congressman Pell of New York last
Saturday in a speech in the house said
in part:
| intend to vote against the bonus.
I am doing this in the full realization
that it means the end of my political
career. and | can tell you frankly that it
is painful thing to commit suicide,
but / do not think that honor will per-
NIT me to follow any other course.
OF course | shall vote for the most
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-05-04
What Ails Our Roads?
(Rntland IIerald.l

The editor of the Bradford Opinion
fresh from the marvellous she'll and
beach roads of Florida. may be par
doned the following very natural refec-
ton:
I'VE need good roads. a network of
them all over the country, and then when
we have railroad strike we could divert
our freight and passengers to motor
transportation. And when we don't have
strikes we can find ordinary use for
them
Vermont roads, of course, can never be
used for freight traffic by truck more
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-05-04
Conscriptiong For Peace.
Hartford Courant.)

The country conscripted its able bodied
men when there was a war and set then
to risking their own lives i'll order thai
their country might live.
What row it would create if the coun-
try should conscript the men again, this
time not for taking life but for preserv
ing it. 1t would probably be impossible
to draft the working forces of the nation
to work on the fields and to produce thu
food that everybody is going to need
Yet it looks as if a season of half starva
tion would be forcing some such course
1t cannot be done this season, for tn,
year is too far gone, but before the nexi
planting it will be apparent that farm
help is absolutely necessary to the lift
of the people. Today it is difficult. il
many places impossible, to hire a man OF
the farm. In one town, 'Jourant" re
porter heard that men refused farm worl
because they could get more for workin.
on the highway repair and construction
gangs. They expect to eat for year
but raising what shall be eaten is lef
for others who cannot be found.
Say what you please. we are i'll for +,
deal OF most serious trouble from thi
easy going scheme of thought that some
body else can do it. Truly it is not pos
sble, as things are, to force man to d,
farm work for less than he can get 70
other work, but, at the same time, it i
impossible to hope for lower cost of food
If nobody cares about raising it that i
raising it in fact, everybody seems read,
to raise it in price.
In addition to the scarcity of labor
there comes the circular letter Of a Slargi
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-05-04
Today's Birthdays.

Sir Louis II Davies. chief justice of
Canada, born in Prince Edward Island, IS
years ago today.
A. Mitchell Palmer. attorney general oil
the United States, born at Moosebead
Pa. IS years ago today.
Col. Winfield T. Durbin. former gov
ernor Of Indiana, born at I,awrenceburg
Ind. % years ago today.
John 1obin, outfelder of the st. Louis
american league baseball team, born il
st. Louis. y years ago TO-DAY.
Judge George Gray OF Delaware. one 0
the most celebrated Of American jurists
born at New Castle, Del, so years ag'
today.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-05-04

fertilizer concern explaining that deliv
cries of this essential have been so de
layed by absence of cars for transporta
ton that the stuff when it is received
will be too late for the spring planting
This is another factor against production
1t IS gloomy prospect that farming
offers and every one of us is dependent
on farms for food and no work can b.
lone by the starving.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-05-04

The Reformer is on sale every evening by
the following news dealers:
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Sleaveland, ), l.. Purinton (Esteyville),
Brooks House Pharmacy. Aliens Depot News.
stand, George ]. Bower, South Main St
(Fort Drummer district.
West Brattleboro, T. L. Stockwcn.
East Dummerston, NJ E. Brown
Putney, NJ G. Williams
Newfane, n. NJ. BatcheIder.
West Townshend, c. H. Grout
Jamaica, R. J. Daggett.
South Londonderry, F. H. Tyler.
South Vernon, F. Z Buffum.
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Greenfield, Mass, Greenfield News Co.
Greenfield, Mass, c. A. Hays.
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A Problem.
(Rutland Herald. J

Nowhere to spoon is the wall of the
victims of the houseless problem in our
Industrial centers. One of these DAYS a
b;g-visioned man is going to design and
Construct a model apartment house for
single and double" tenants, with social
1alls under reasonable restrictions, so
hat spoons and spoon holders will be
tcccntly accommodated. The no spoon
BOARDING house is nothing new; it is as
I'D as civilization and just as much OF
| problem as ever
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TO ADVERTISERS.
TO THE SUBSCRIBERS.

II is the aim of the management to secure
eihcient service in the delivery of the paper
each night and it solicts the cooperation Of
subscribers to that end. Prompt reports should
be gwen OF each failure to receive the paper
on the morning following the omission, in
person, by telephone postal card, thus en-.
ablIng the cause of the error to be promptly
and accurately discovered and the proper rem
edy Immediately applied 1t is only by this
method that the publisher can secure the ce-
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Today's Anniversaries.

l9S-Commencement Of the great rebel
lion in Ireland. which cost l50,000
Irish and 10000 English lives
lS44-lenny Lind made her first appear.
IN opera in London.
'86i-The army Of the Potomac, 10000
strong, crossed the Rapidan and be
gan its final advance on Richmond
1SS6-Seven policemen killed by anarchists
IN the great Haymalket riot in Chi
eago.
'SS1-Mora than 10 persons persisted il
mine explosion at Nanaimo, r. G
Woman Suffrage associa
ton opened its eighth annual con
vention at Battle Creek
iS95-Dedication of the Washington Ne
: mortal arch in New York. CITY.
'S91-Rear Admiral Richard w Meade
the t. $ naval officer who sadie,
the yacht America to a victory il
the famous cup race. died in Wash
n"tor D. G. Born in New Yorl
city, Oct O. 1887.
In the Days News.
Hon. Sir Louis y. Davies, K G. NJ G..
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The national geographical survey
warns US of coming shortage of gaso-
line probably before the summer is
over. Because of the increasing number
of automobiles the supply is not keep
ing up to the demand. Motorless days
loom large in the horizon unless motor
less homes become fashionable.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-05-04

The department of labor has figured
living costs in Ii American cities from
1914 to 1919 and finds that Detroit
heads the list with an increase of los
per cent. Despite the high price of
beans Boston trails along with only a
% per cent increase
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-05-04

A brush fire, probably caused by
matches carelessly dropped by May
flower party, burned over so acres in a
Massachusetts, town recently. Enough
said The moral is obvious.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-05-04

The Boston Herald suggests that when
that promised peak of high prices is
reached it might be named Mt. Palmer
The rank and file of the climbers will
not care what it is called SO long as
they get the view from its summit.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-05-04

Many will watch with interest Gov
ernor Clement s line of defense should
Mrs. Olzendam produce the goods he de-
mands in order to call 9 special session
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-05-04
One Year Ago Today.

Postmaster General Burleson wrote a
letter defending his administration
Delegates assembled in Chicago for a
national convention of the l. w. w.