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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02

BrattlebOrO taxpayers made a start in
the right direction yesterday when they
voted in town meeting to assess a spec
ial tax to apply on the towns indebted
ness. 1t is to be hoped this will prove
to be the initial step of a definite move
ment to provide a sinking fund for TAX
ing care of bono issues as they become
due. If such a fund is provided and
steadfaStly maintained it will solve one
of the biggest problems of municipal fl
nance and do more han anything else
to maintain the towns present high
credit rating.
As for the burden of this special tax
it is not likely to prove unbearable in
spite of the gloomy pictures painted by
its opponents. With the regular town
tax eight cents less than last year and
the strong probability that this years
state tax will not exceed 20 cents, as
compared to 40 cents for the past two
years, there is every reason for believing
that the total tax rate within the village
will be $3.50 as compared to $3.50
last year, and outside the village $23.10
as compared to $3.50 last year. If
this turns out to be true and the tax
payers are able to apply more than ST.
900 on the town debt in one year with no
greater burden than what these figures
indicate, surely there can be no great
cause for complaint or dissatisfaction.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02

sometimes staged, but the heart-breaking
blunder of a loving wife and mother.
How could it happen? In just one way
keeping a poison in the same cupboard
or on the same shelf with the ordinary
ingredients for cooking. 1t is an old
story. Sometimes it is a bottle of pois-
onous medicine seized in the dark from
the family medicine cabinet in place of
the harmless remedy intended. Some
times it is a box of pills left on a table
or in a drawer within reach of meddling
little fingers, and a child dies because he
thought the attractive little pellets were
candy.
1t all comes back to one thing-care-
lessness in failing to mark poisons
plainly and to put them in such places
that neither adult nor child can get
them by mistake. Such carelessness is
inexcusabIe even in the ignorant. 1t is
doubtful whether persons guilty of it
should be allowed to go UNPUBLISHED by
law, even though the mistakes usually
bring their own anguish and teach their
own lesson.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02
Little Benny's
Note Book
By LEE PAPE.

| was setting on our frunt steps Sun.
day AFTERNOON waiting for something to
happIn and thinking of diffrent THINGS
that mite. and all of a suddin Mary
Watkins came out of her house all
dressed UP looking CRATE and started to
Wawk up the street with her hands in
her muft, me thinking, Gosh, G..
And as soon as she got errOund the
corner | quick got UP and wawkoI after
Ier IKE a persln catching up to her by
aXsldent, saying, O Hello Mary, watts
YOU doing. taking a wawk?
Yes, sed Mary Watkins.
Wien she kepp on doing, and | started
to wawk alongside of her and tried to
thInk OF something elts to say without
being able TO think of enything exsept
the same thing, witch | sed it, Taking a
wawk?
Yes, sed Mary Watkins.
And we kepp OF wawking alongside
OF each other with neither of us saving
thing elts and couldent. thinking, G.,
she's acting dun today.
And we wawked about 3 more blocks
without eny conversation happening, me
thinking. Heck, this is fearse.
WITCH it was, and we wawked about ?
more blocks without eny happening. and
| sed, Q / lest remember something, tx
cuse me. And | quick termed erround
and started to wawk back quick like
somebody remembering something, feel
ing better han wen I was wawking with
her on account OF not having to think of
enything to say.
And | went back and sat on our
frunt steps agen and keep OF waiting
for something to happin.
Proving it takes at leest one to
make q conversation.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02
Today's Events

Texas observes today as a holiday in
honor of the S5th anniversary of her
declaration of independence.
The annual meeting of the Canadian
Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
will begin its sessions today at Ottawa.
The last of the series of regional con-
ferences of the w. C. 7. t., which began
in January ard nave covered the entire
country, will begin today at Kansas
City.
Plans for a reorganization of the Re
publican party in the South on a more
equitable basis Will be considered by a
special subcommittee of the Republican
national committee at a meeting in
Washington today.
In connection with the meeting of the
Southern Commercial Congress in Wash
ington a session is to be held today at
the L. S. department of agriculture.
and will be in the nature of a memorial
to David Lubin, founder of the Interna-
tional Institute of Agriculture at Rome.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02

"1N" AND Unto"

THE distinction between the uses
= of these two words. 'in" and
into" can be expressed best by Civ
ing examples of proper and improper
usage. Therefore, compare the two
sentences which follow: THE man
walked in the house and 1.-THE man
walked into the house. In the first
case the action was confined entirely
to the house; that is, the man vas
in the house, and he walked therein.
But in the second case, the man was
outside the house, and he entered it.
In shows state Of being, or position;
Into" denotes action, movement, ten
dency or direction.
Do not say: II fell in the wafer"
but say. 81 fell into the water" Fol-
lowing is i case in which the two
words are used correctly in IN SEN
tence: 81 threw the stone into the
house, and it lies in the ROOM"
Come in the house" says the moth
err to the child. She should say: Come
into the house"
(copyright.)
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02

The people who work in the Farmers
did not propose to have their safe robbed
while they were absent, neither did they
want to stay up all night. So tubes of
mustard gas We're placed in the bank
vault, SO arranged that any tampering
with the door would explode them. Then
the bankers went home and slept
sOundly. The bank robbers came with a
whole kit of professional tools. They
blew the outer safe door. The mustard
tubes burst and the robbers fed. They
left behind not only all the bank funds,
untouched, but their tools and their
coats, one of which contained So cents.
Not until the next day at noon had the
gas fumes abated so that the bank could
be entered comfortably. This is a good
method of protecting a bank during
closed hours. OF course the gas should
an expert. It's prompt action would
make it more effective than any system
of signals for ~summoning help. Too
much reliance, however, should not be
placed on any mechanical appliance to
prevent crime. Prompt apprehension
and swift punishment for the criminal
are the only sound solutions. Until men
are convinced that lawlesSness will bring
inevitable penalties, foiling their games
viii only stimulate their enterprise.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02
Those New Hampshire Spooksies.

Can the spirits of Londonderry
Be our old friends, Tom and Jerry
Earnest Inquirer. in Springfield Union.
Was it Gordon Gin that picked the
locks
And threw the wood from out the box?
Was it foaming Schlitz that drew the
corkS
And through the window flung the forks?
The pillows from the bed were pushed /;
Could they have been Ann Hyser
Busched?%
The coalhod turned a somersault.
Perhaps by the ghost of old King Malt.
Selectmen came-investigated.
The curious antics then abated.
They knew the danger of staying by
With town fathers who might be dry.
apologies to Pete Hopkins.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02

The legislature starts work tonight on
what promises to be the last lap of the
present session. Just what the law-mak-
ers have heard during their trips home
for the town meeting recess The Re
former is not in a position to know,
but it is willing to venture a guess that
the gist of the sentiment could be ac-
curately expressed in this brief sentence =:
Cut out the political jockeying, finish
the job and come home" At any rate,
that seems like pretty good advice.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02

The city of Rutland will again enforce
the restrictions of it's curfew ordinance
which requires all persons under the age
of 10 years to be off the streets by nine
O'Clock in the evening. What seems to
be greatly needed in many towns is a
home curfew law enforced by the par
ents. Because it is often sadly lacking
such matters are finally turned over to
municipal officials, which sometimes re-
suits in undesirable publicity as the par
ents find out when it is too late.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02
THE l.

An entire family in a little New York
town is i'll, some of the members des-
perately so, as a result of eating pan
cakes made by mistake with a poisonous
exterminating power instead of baking
powder. This. apparently. was not one
of those attempts at wholesale murder
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02
Inv ItaStartEd
III ~
PoSTAGE-STAMPS

THE first stamp for letters as a
L revenue-producing agent was in
PRODUCED into Great Britain by Sir
Rowland Hill in 1910. For a while the
stamps were simply bits of paper,
which had to be pasted on the letter
by the purchaser. The first adhesive
stamp was the English "One-penny
black" 1t was not until 1854 that
perforated stamps came into use. Be-
fore this all stamps had TO be cut
apart.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02
no THE

It is the aim of the management to secure
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-
abiing 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 de-
sired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02

A woman is seeking redress in Boston
municipal court because a tailor made
her a skirt so tight she could not sit
down at a bridge party. The judge in
his decision can perhaps think how he
would feel with a pair of pants so tight
he couldn't sit down at a poker game.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02
(Copyright)
Doe in Town.

Beayertown, PA large doe
chased by dogs came down the main
street here the other day. and taking
a flying leap, landed in the garden OF
-FuIlmer's hotel. After a few min
utes she again jumped the fence and
trotted through the business streets,
often stopping to look in windows.
The doe returned to the garden and
then to the woods.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02
In the Days News.

Henry z. Fletcher who, according to
report, is to be under secretary of state
in the Harding administration, is best
remembered as the ambassador to Mex
leo during the most critical period of
the strained relations between that cOun-
try and the United States. Mr.. Fetch
er's special qualifications for his new
post, in addition to his character as a
man, are his varied experiences with
people who ave been bred in the Span
ish tradition, as, for instance, the in
habitants of Central and South America,
Cuba, and the Philippines. Besides this
he has had a technical training while
serving the United States automatically
in China, Portugal, Chile and Mexico.
Mr.. Fletcher is a native of Pennsyl-
vania. He was trained in the law, and
got in the way of civic employ by proved
capacities while serving as a Rough
Rider in Cuba in 1898.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02

The Reformer is on sale every evening by
the following news dealers:
Brattleboro, Brattleboro New Co, c. w.
CIeaveland, s. L. Purinton Esteyville),
Brooks House Pharmacy, Aliens Depot News
stand, Gilbert J. Pollica, 27 South Main St.
(Fort Drummer district.
West Bratt1eboro, ]. L. Stockwell.
East Dummerston, NJ. z. Brown.
Putney, NJ. G. Williams.
Newfane, n. NJ. Batchelder.
West Townshend, c. II. Grout.
Jamaica, R. J. Daggett.
Jamaica, R. ]. Daggett.
South Londonerry, F. II. Tyler.
South Vernon, E. B. Buffum.
Mortified, Mass, Thompson Bros.
West Chesterfield, N. h, Mrs. w. Streeter.
Hinsdale, N. H, w. H. Lyman
Greenfield, Mass, Greenfield News Co.
Greenfield, Mass, c.. A. Hays.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02

John Spargo of Bennington says: 81
regard Henry Ford with profound and
unmeasured pity. He is poverty stricken
intellectually, morally and spiritually"
A great waste of pity, because if Mr..
Ford is as Mr.. Spargo says he will have
no idea what it is all about.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02

Speaking of successful teachers. a
Montana paper says, Miss Gladys
Spank is again teaching in a school near
Williams" May l not add" asks Tu-
lip. that Jeanette Slapp has taught
many terms in Vermont and also that
Miss Ruff has just closed her school at
Sherburne. Vt. Ezra who insists upon
butting in says that he has in days past
been under the educational jurisdiction
of Miss Hit and also Miss Fit.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02
TOday's Anniversaries.

1II0-AIarshal Suchet. one of the most
brilliant of Napoleon's generals,
born at Lyons. Died near Mar.
settles Jan. ). 1926.
1S10-Pope Leo NIL. born at Carpi-
neto. Died in Rome July 20. 1903
1S21-The president approved the reso.
luton admitting Missouri into the
Union.
1S56-Three thousand lives lost in a vol.
canic eruption and earthquake or
the island of Great Sanger, in the
Moluccas.
1S6S-Thaddeus Stevens was appointed
chief manager of the Impeachment
of President Johnson.
1SI2-Gen. Lorenzo Thomas. a centra'
figure in the contest between
President Johnson and congress
died in Washington. ID. c. Born
at Newcastle. Del. in 1904.
lS96-Cnited States consulate at BARGE
Iona. Spain, robbed.
1S99-The Mouat Rainier National park
was established by act of con,
greSS.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02
A Time fer Cool Judgment.
Barre Times

The tension at the state house in
| Montpelier is reported to be growing
more and more taut. with the strained
relations confined not alone to the state
highway matters. 1t is q time for cool
Judgment
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02

whole though the state may be-can
and do speak feelingly on the subject.
year in and year out. This year is no
exception and the News wishes to voice
its opinion with the rest, more and
more good roads :"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02

Can't be, can it, that Vermont needs a
commerce commission to look after the
near-pipe lines from the Canadian res
Observation-Disclosures Union.
Well, some of 'em leak terribly in
some places, neighbor.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02
TO ADVERTISERS,

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Space rates on application.
Classified advertisements-Five cents a line
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Reading Notices-Twenty cents per line first
insertion with so per cent discount for each
subsequent insertion without change of copy.
Reading notices are published at foot of local
items,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02
1T Makes Is Shiyer.

Dick Waswo got run over by a car
Monday evening. 1t his his leg but he
is getting along nicely. Just stop and
think what it might have done.-Jackson
County Pilgrim.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02
Our governmental Neophytes.
CRutland Heraldl

Senator Villas says the present sys-
tenn produces a legislature of govern
mental neophytes.' Well, some of them
phyte and neo now and some of them
take refuge in mere language.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02
TOday'S Birthdays.

EVUNE . HTTIINNEo
Edwin Milton Royle, author of nu-
merous successful plays, born at Lex
ington, Mo-, 30 years ago today.
Hon. Robert Rogers. former minister
of public works in the Dominion cabinet,
born at Lakefield, Que, 81 years ago
today.
Samuel Untermeyer. who has been
prosecuting the alleged graft cases in
New York city. born at Lynchburg, Va.
63 years ago today.
Prof. George f. Swain of Harvard
university. who is president of the Water
Power League of America. born in San
Francisco 81 years ago today.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02
Society Note.

The Zion Farm Club gave a pie supper
on the evening of the 18th, to a large
gathering of pie eaters. All left for
their homes at n late hour expressing
themselves as having a splendid time.
Opal item.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02

Somebody's making a fuss again about
accepting Mr.. Rockefeller's tainted
money for philanthropic use. The gen
eral idea nowadays is that if money ever
does contract a %''taint," the best way to
deodorize it is to use it.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02

Harding, Hughes, Hoover. Hayes-it
begins to look as if the incoming admin
istration might be able to raise II with
almost any problem.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02

Charles Evans Hughes is a brave man,
outside as well as inside. In spite of ev-
erything, he still wears those whiskcrs.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02
Back to the Front Again.
(RutIand Herald.)

When a Rutland man heard that the
legislature had taken a recess until
Wednesday night he said: S'Safe for
five DAYS. anyway
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02
Rutland News.1

If Governor IIartness had bounced
ink well off Stod Bates's bear with
a little more force the whole highway
problem would nave been settled.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02
Member of The Associated Press.

The Associated Press is 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, 1921-03-02

Seems as though those II landing
fields in Rhode Island selected by the
army air service might crowd the rest
of the rest of the population of the state
a little.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02

The United States senate presented
Vice President Marshall with a big silver
loving cup as a farewell gift. MOI much
use for loving cups nowadays but as Mr..
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02

We trust the inkwell episode will re-
suit in no blots on a~nybody's escutcheon.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02
NV Dear. You Should See Him.

Charles Nelson is putting on a piazza.
put on a large bay window last
spring.-Aurora item.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02
Obituary.

Uncle Charley Garwood has his share
of troubles, as his Liz is dead. We
mean his tin lizzie is out of commission
and refused to goldberg news.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02

"Stod Bates motto seems to be Hold
fast to what you have. Burlington
News.
Reminds us of the old game of button.
button. Hold fast all l give you
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02
One Year Ago To-day.

Senator Lodges Monroe Doctrine res
ervation to the German peace treaty
was adopted by the United States sen
ate by a vote of IS to -.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02

Marshall says, he can keep it as a mem
orial of the 18th amendment.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02
Unsettled Conditions Prevail.
Barr,

Barre Times.)
Ais not well at Montpelier when it's
an inkwell.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02
STARTING RIGHT.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH ., 1921.
Evening star., 1921-12-26
ORGANIZE JEWISH FIRM
TO GIVE POLAND CREDIT
Working Capital Of $5,OOO,OOO
Will Be Furnished by Re-
lief Committee.

NEW YORK, December 26.-The
Jewish Reconstruction Company OF
Warsaw has been organized here to
supply credit facilities for the GRIP
pied industries of Poland. A work
ing capital of $5.000,O00. it was an-
nounced. will be furnished by the
American Jewish relief committee.
Herbert H. Lehman, member OF
the banking firm of Lehman Brothers.
who worked out the operating plans
of the organization. said that it would
function through local cooperative
banks and business and consumers
organizations but would have Its
| headquarters in Warsaw.
"In all of the credit transactions.
Mr. Lehman said, whether for small
merchants, artisans or farmers. no
profit will be made through forfeiture.
and the rate of interest will be only
| sufficient to pay the administrative
expenses. This is very important
feature of the plan to set the Jewish
population back on it's feet. The
commercial rate of interest In Po-
land runs from 20 to 200 per cent.
"Experimentally, we already have
set aside 81, 100000 for the Jewish Re-
construction Company. and the Jews
of Poland will raise 100000. AS our
Operations increase we shall increase
the amount of money at the dis
posal of the company, with the un-
derstanding that. whatever the sum
may be, the Jews of Poland VIII
supply an additional 20 per cent.
Evening star., 1921-12-26
CONFEDERATE VETERANS
PLAN ANNUAL REUNION
Virginia Grand Camp to Meet in
Winchester in 1922 on Date to
Be Chosen.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, December 26.-
The 1922 reunion of the Grand Camp.
United Confederate Veterans of Vir-
ginia, will be held in Winchester on a
date to be fixed by committee of the
organization, according to letter re-
ceived today from Grand Commander
Thomas S. West of Bedford. Va, ac-
cepting an invitation extended by the
chamber of commerce to meet here.
When the Grand Camp met several
months ago at Charlottesville it was
reported that the annual reunions
may be discontinued, owing to so
many of the veterans being infirm.
but Indications are annual meetings
will continue Indefinitely. Commander
West says in his letter that 'it is with
peculiar pleasure we unhesitatingly
accept the invitation" Capt. George
W. Kurtz, commander OF Gen. Turner
Ashby Camp, this city, will be gen.
eral chairman of the committee on
arrangements.
Efforts will be made to secure low
railroad rates and get as many Of the
old veterans together as possible.
There are comparatively few ex-Con-
federates in Virginia and adjoining
states, it was said. who did not par
ticipate in battles in and around Win
chester during the civil war; when the
town changed hands no less than
seventy times and six times in one
day.