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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-16
In the Days News.

Jacob Gould Schurman, who is expected
to be the new United States minister to
China. has been before the country in
varied capacities, but is best known per-
haps fer his service of nearly 80 years as
president of Cornell university. He has
always been more or less active in the af-
fairs Of the Republican party in New
York state, as was his predecessor at Cor
nell, Andrew u. White; and he is of the
school of academic men who do not suffer
themselves to become pedants or refuses
President Mckinley insured DIR. Schur-
mans permanent fame when he made him
chairman of the first commission sent to
the Philippines after American Occupa-
ton. Later. during the Taft adminiStra-
ton, he was minister to Greece and Mon
tenegro. DIR. Schurman is a native of
Prince Edward Island, and before being
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-16
THE GERMAN PROGRAM.

German compliance in good faith with
the terms of the allied ultimatum will in
clude not only financial payments and
prosecution of war criminals, but com
plete disarmament as we'll If Germany
is disarmed she must be protected against
unfair aggression. and so protected there
is nothing to hinder her from going ahead
with all her forces and all her wit con
centrated upon industrial recovery and
expansion. Her only salvation will be
through hard work, and the Germans are
workers. Her only hope of coming out
even or getting ahead little will be tC
have practical financial and industrial
program 1t is a safe bet that. she has
that ready now.
How can the other nations hope tC
compete with Germany under such con
ditiOns? Not by barring their markets
to German goods or German commerce
for that viii destroy any hope of Ger
many's being able to pay. \ dead COOS,
| lays no golden eggs. The way to compe
tition is by the adoption of just such ;
program as Germany disarmament
practical industrial and financial plans
| hard work.
| If such program means final enamel
lpation to a nation with heavy indemnitie
to pay, what would it not mean to ma
ton with no such encumbrance?
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-16
Trailing the Dollar

Two thousand philosophical Phila-
ieIphla men and women maintain a bu-
reau OF Municipal Research TO deyeIon
specIhc information concerning the city's
activities. and what is being done with
the taxpayers dollars, according to The
Nations Business.
Municipal government is becoming
more complex and more a matter for
expert attention a. time goes on: and
the stan of investigators, statisticiaus.
ana specialists employed by the bureau.
although they endeavOT not to antago-
nlze anybody, nevertheless manage to
get the facts concerning engineering.
heaith, civil service. law, and the city 5
technical problems
The bureau has, for instance. made
scientific study of the street cleaning
problem; it has fought for standard
stood against political influence i'm en-
ployment; it has initiated modern ac-
counting methods, has brought about an
improved budget. reorganized the Blu
reau of Compulsory Education and so
cut down truancy. and is responsible for
the creation of the Bureau of Weights
and Measures.
These are but a few of its many ac-
Invites. The theory back of the bureau
IL that a citizen ought to know the eX-
act conditions in his home town.
Time was when Philadelphia was IA
nous as the cleanest city i'm America
The bureau is making an effort to re-
vive that fame. 1t serves to stimulate
public interest i'm civic affairs, although
it is non-partisan and Pon-nOlitical
Many prominent men of Philadelphia
have testified to its usefulness.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-16
Today S Events

Festival of st. Honoratus, the patron
of bakers.
The Most Rev. J. J. Harry today com
pletes five years as Catholic bishop of
Omaha.
\ wage reduction of approximately 20
per cent is to become effective today at
the various plants of the United States
Steel corporation.
/ Two proposed plans Of civic government
are to be submitted to the choice of the
voters of Montreal at a special election
to be held today.
Mrs Dorothy Williams McCombS,
widow of the late William +. AlcCombs,
is to be married in Washington today to
Frederick Sterling, counsellor of the
American embassy at Paris.
A conference of ambassadors and min
listers on world trade is to be opened in
New York city today in conjunction with
the 26th annual convention of the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers.
The prosecution is to ask for 4 jury OF
women in the case of Mrs. Cora isabelle
| Orthwein, who is to be placed on trial in
| Chicago today under an Indictment charg-
| ing her with the murder of Herman Zeig
| Ter, former manager of an automobile tire
/ agency.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-16
Little Benny's
Note Book
BY LEE PAPE.

Me and pop was taking q wawk and
tawking, especially me. and We started
to 20 past a man with a wooden leg
and a aceordeen, and he was playing
the accordeen as if he hadent had meny
lessins how to play, me saving to pop,
Hay pop. if / gave that man a cent
would that be a act of charity?
Most Certeny, sed pop.
Well gosh, G, pop, / ony got one cent,
cents all l got. sed.
That would make the act of charity
all the greater, sed pop.
Wen then / think ! viii, / sed.
Nich ] did. and the man stopped
playing the accoTdeeu and put the cent
in his pockit. saying. Thank you kindly.
and started TO play the accoTdeen aEeu,
and me and pop kepp on wawking, pop
saving. Wen. you've done a CRATE act
of charity, you have given your intire
fortune to the poor, do You feel. better
or verse;
Verse. scd. Wich I did. on account
of me not even having a cent. and pop
sed. Well Jest to show YOU that bred
thrown upon the waiter shah TeteTr
To YOU | will Tetern your money fold
in other werds heers cents insted OF
one.
Wich he gave them to me, me think
ing G.. herraw And we kepp on wawk
ing till we started to 20 back, and wcI
We started to 60 past the one legged
man with the accordecn agen | had d
good idecr how to get cents insted oi
p. saving, Hay pop, / think III give hin
NV intire fortune agen.
Wich | did, giving him. the , cents
and lie took it. saying Thank you
| kindly, As if that was the .ony ansel
he knew. and me and pop kepp OF
wawking without pop saying euythinl
about giving me 1 cents fnsted of , Il
iprove about the bred coming back, ant
after a vile | sed, | gave him my in
tire fortune agen, pop, and l feel VERSE
agen.
The Lord loveth a cheerful giver, tx
pect your reward in hevvin, sed pop.
| Me thinking, Aw heck.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-16
MONDAY, MAY 1G, 1921.
COST OLE SCHOOL FAILTRES.

\ school official in a city of 100000
population reports that pupils who fail
in their grades cost the city more than
81. 900 600 a year That is the cost, he
explains. of giving them the same work
over again the next year. What is
true for that city is probably true for
others. Take given population and al
low S1.25 or $50 for each man, woman
and child. and you will have somewhere
near the annual cost of school failures"
That however, is only the first cost,
and the least The city has lost the
price of a years instruction of the pu-
pills who did not paSs-a years salaries
for their teachers and a years interest
and depreciation on the plant" and its
equipment. But if you carry those chill
dren on a few years, you find that the
city has also lost a years work, year S
services in the community life, from as
many as have been DELAYED in leaving
school and entering productive pursuits
And what of the children themselves
There are times, no doubt, when a child
benefits by being held back for a year
behind the regular schedule of promotion
But such times are exceptional. As q
rule, it is probably true that the regular
| schedule is unnecessarily slow, that ar
average child fought to get through it il
Hess time. Therefore. as a rule. the child
who has Jagged year in his school worb
has lost a year out of his life. He has
| lived the lost year, to be sure; but that
year would nearly always mean mucI
more to him in maturity. This loss Of
time is serious.
There ought to be more thinking along
this line on the part of the educators
and on the part of the parent:
and taxpayers. Failures are not in
evtable There is well grounded
notion that when a pupil fails t,
pass, it is usually less his fault thar
that of his teacher or his parents, Of
lboth. Nearly al children are bright; they
are merely less bright in some respects
than others. Nearly all can pass if theil
interest is aroused and sustained. 1t il
the work of the schools to appeal to tha
interest. and of the parents to supper
it in every way possible.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-16
EAST AND WEST.

Americans consider the English cold
and inexpensive. Their impassiveness is
a fruitful source of American misunder-
standing or dislike The japanese crown
prince at his royal reception in London
made an unfavorable impression on the
English themselves by his chilly de-
meanor-and that is certainly going
some
y correspondent describes Prince Hir-
chito as "a small, dark-skinned, lightly
built, stiff-looking, bespectacled young
man" who went through his presentation
to King George and the subsequent for
malities with rigid, unbending punetili-
BUSINESS and stilted movements, without
a smile or the faintest change of express
sion" 1t was not shyness, either, the
correspondent explains. 1t was simply
the royal japanese idea of how royalty
ought to act.
The royalties and other court and
ministerial functionarieS clearly were
chilled by the unrelaxing formality OF
their guest" They have grown accus-
toned, of late years, to royalty turned
democratic and eager to popularize itself
They had almost forgotten that there
was left, anywhere in the world, a royal
family that regards itself as superhuman
and a race that supports that view.
The populace was taken by surprise
The crowds cheered as the princes car,
rage drove by, but when Hirchito stared
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-16

Russia represents such a sea of waste
and ignorant intolerance that it is diff
cult to imagine any instance standing
out from among the rest. But somehow
the statement that 5000 of her scholars,
scientists and other intellectuals are
starving to death is particularly start
ling. Maxim Gorky is said to have is
sued an appeal to the whole world -
come to the rescue of these men.
An aristocracy of wealth and title
which represents to the common people
ages of oppression is sure to go down in
any movement for equality in any conn-
try. The savants, the 'aristocracy OF
brains" deserve no such fate. 1t is
through such men that nearly every. adj
vance is made, whether in medicine, law,
science. art, music literature, govern
ment or industry. They seldom enrich
themselves, and if money does crown
their efforts. it is the just reward OF
service to others. They are the men be-
hind the guns of progress.
The Soviet government recognizes the
| need of education. for it is making quite
show Of education for its young. Yet
at the same time it Is wantonly destroy
| ing those who are already educated. This
destruction cannot be stopped by outside
interference half so quickly as by force
from within Russia. Through pressure
from the Russian people themselves. th'
Soviet governr,o~' hoe hoPn forced.to rec
ognize and restore financial capital
When will Russia force like recogni
ton for the capital represented in trained
minds and scientific education-a CAPT
tai just as essential to Russian prosper
lily?
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-16
Small Town Noon.

The twelve o'clock whistle
Tears the soft noon air.
Joe Glenn, the barber,
Leaves the worn-velvet chair.
Changes the linen coat
With the two brass buttons missing,
Hangs the "Back-at-1- clock" sign
Above the door lettering which tells the
world
SLAVES are - cents baths, 81 cents and
haircutS, 30 cents,
And that Laundry taken Tuesday is de-
livered Friday"
Calls his browsing dog and crosses the
street
To the Basket Grocery, James Craw-
ford. prop..''
He buys Il pound of sliced ham and says,
'Charge it." to James Crawford, Prop.
George Dickinson, the postmaster.
Leaves the 1150 delivery
To Miss Emily Starkweather
And gets the midday French loaf
From Martins Bakery: Fresh Cakes,
Pies and Cookies
Warmer today says Mrs. Martin,
Mother of seven, three of whom are
present.
The new bank clerk
AIinces across from the .First National
To the Chocolate Shop
He orders a matted milk from Jim
CrOWdef. the clerk.
Money is tightening up to beat the
band" he says.
Long Larsen, brakeman on the 1902 slow
freight.
Orders country sausage with apple
sauce. bread free.
Over the counter of the Center Cafe,
Tables for Ladies'.
Crawford's delivery Ford skids around
the CITY Hall corner
And the smell of beefsteak smothered
in onions
Sweeps down from the rented rooms in
the Robertson block
Above Marthas bakery and Stillson's
stationery store
Into the warm emptiness of Main street.
Los Angeles TIMES.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-16
Beer for the Sick.
-. .tlbans AIessenger. )

Ut. -AibdiiS messenger
The Messenger eonfesses that it is at
a loss to understand why congress, un-
der the 18th amendment. should iegfs-
late on the use of beer when prescribed
by physician authorized by law to
treat the sick The 18th amendment is
aimed against the manufacture. trans
portation and sale OF liquids containing
alcohol when used for beverage pur-
poses The use of alcohol for any other
purpose is not banned by the amend
ment. y great many persons were di-
rected to drink beer aud ale by their
doctors back i'm the times when these
Eeould be easily and legally obtained and
when the prescription could not be CON
sidered as an attempt to evade the
law. Ii Il prescription IN those DAYS
was genuine why can not similar one
be genuine in these Eolstead times? If
a state has enough faith in the ability
Of man to doctor the sick so that he
VIII authorize him to set - as a ply
stefan and surgeon. it ought to honor
his prescriptions.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-16
Today's Anniversaries.

1T70-Marie Ant0inette was married to
the Dauphin, afterwards King
Louis XVI.
1S22-Sir David Brewster explained the
first elements of spectrum analysis.
1S30-British parliament rejected bin
to remove the civil disabilities Of the
Jews.
de Las Cases. the companion
of Napoleon at st. Helena. died at
Passy. Born in Languedoc in
17G6.
1S49-The city of Bologna capitulated to
the AuStrians after a conflict of
eight days.
1ST1-Nine thousand engineers in New
castle, England. went on strike for
a ninc-h0ur day.
1SS3-Beginning of hostiltieS in AIadagas-
car by the French.
l900-The, Woman's Medical College OF
Pennsylvania celebrated its 50tL
anniversary.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-16
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The Reformer is on sale every evening by
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cleveland, S. L. Purinton (Esteyville)
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fort Duminer district.
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East Dummerston, M. Z. Brown
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-16

straight ahead. not deigning even to look
at them, much less tip his hat to them,
they felt rebuked and relapsed into be-
coming silence. On the whole, it is prob
ably Just as we'll that Prince Hirchito's
imperial father has refused, for him, an
invitation to visit the United States.
Americans could never understand that
young man. East is East. and West is
West. His way may be all right, but it
is not our way.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-16
ADVANTAGES of Being Poor.

You, can wear out your old buds.
You're" not bothered with formal call
ers.
You don't get a raft of begging letters
You are not spoiled by fiattery.
You don't have to live beyond youl
means.
You aren't kept awake by the he'll
problem.
You never worry lest your chauffeur
is joy-riding in your new car.
Finally. if you have a true friend You
are apt to find it out.-Boston Trans
cript.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-16
TO THE SUBSCRIBERS.

1t 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 postal card. thus en-
abling the cause of the error to be promptly
and accurately discovered and the proper rem.
edy Immediately applied. IL 10 only by This
method that the publisher secure the de
sired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-16

American movie stars who have held
records for princely salaries are pikers
compared to Gabrielle D'Annunzio. Ital-
ian producers recently made a movie
based on a poem by the more than fam
Gus authorizations fighter When in
vited to witness a first showing of the
picture in London D'Annunzio replied
that he would come if paid $4,000.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-16

There is strong opposition to sales
tax on the ground that the consumer
would pay" As if the consumer didn' t
always pay 1t would probably be the
most unpopular tax ever imposed by con-
gress, but it would at least be an honest
one
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-16

to return the province of Shantung to
Americans will believe Japan is going to
do that about six months after Japan
has done it.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-16

Nothing to that Friday tradition at
all. In Scotland nine-tenths of the
weddings are on Friday, and in America
none of them are. and we have ten times
Scotland's divorce rate.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-16
Tadays RirthdaYs

Medill Mccormick, United States sena-
for from Illinois, born in Chicago, II
years ago today.
Robert $. Nessey, former governor of
South Dakota, born near Oshkosh, Wis.
63 years ago today.
breckenridge Long, late assistant sec
rotary of-state at Washington, born in ST
Louis, 40 years ago today.
Audrieus 4. Jones, senior United
States senator from New Mexico. born
IN ObIon county, Tenn, % years ago to-
day.
Gen. Eli Torrance Of Minnesota. former
commander-in-chief Of the c. A. r., born
at New Alexandria, Pa. ~ years ago to-
day.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-16

France seems strangely disappointed in
Germany since the latter agreed to pay.
1t was a rather low-down trick to deprive
the French of so fine a pretext for oc-
cupying the Ruhr valley.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-16
MEMBER Of The Assoeiated Press.

The Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled TO the use for publication of all news
credited in this paper and also the local news
published herein.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-16

y baseball umpire was held up and
robbed the other day. And yet there are
people who say there is no retribution in
this life.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-16

The optimists said everything was go
ing TO start up in the spring. And didn't
1t! Just look at the gardens! ~
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-16

They say in London that Germany is
starting now with a clean slate" She
needs clean one, for all the figuring that
she's got to DO from now on.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-16

What the bitter-enders want is more
supremacy for the United States and
less of it.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-16

France has minister for physical ed
ucatiou and sport. and he has seat in
the cabinet.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-16

called to Cornell he was an instructor in
Dalhousie college.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-16
One Year Ago Today.

\ coalition government was formed in
Pope Benedict formally pronounced
Joan of Are saint.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-16

A recent despatch from Tientsin,
China, anpounced that Japan had decided
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-16

HobSon says. ''Sobriety wins" BY a
neck. no doubt.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-16
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items.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-16

Entered in the postofice at Brattleboro a.
second class matter.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-08-24

Notice is hereby given that the County
Commissioners Of st. Joseph County,
Indiana viii receive sealed proposals
for fbe remodellng Of heating apparatus
for ST. Joseph County Jail az south
Bend. Indiana, according 70 s2ecihca-
tions approved by the County Commits.
sioners and now on file IN the onlce OF
the County Auditor
All bids must be on forms furnished
bv the County Auditor, and must he
accompanied By a bond In a sum not
less than the full amount Of the bid
All bids must be on hle on or before
Aup 29tb. 1927 at IL A NJ The commis-
sioners reserve the right 10 reject any
or all bids.
Given BY order Of the Board Of Com
missioners this Sth day II August l5-l.
CLARENCE SEDGWICK,
Auditor st. Joseph County, Ind
e-16-o -
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-08-24
NOTICE TO DEALERS IN ROAD MA
CHINFEY

Notice is hereby given that the County
Commissioners Of st. Joseph County.
Indiana will receive sealed proposals To-
one gravel screening plant with 3O-tOn
wood hin. mounted and equipped with
#. no IT revolving screen, # dust
jacket. folding elevator. with feeding
rhutp. leading chutes on both sizes Of
PLANT. said plant TO be equipped with a
six horsepower water-coOled gasoline
engine To be delivered F. o. B. North
Liberty Indiana.
AN bids must be filed on forms fur
nished by the County Auditor, and
must be accompanied by a bond in a
sum not less than the full amount o.
the bid
All bids must be on file on or before
Aug 18th 1927 at II A. NJ he board
reserves the right to reject any or all
bids
mfssioners this 9th day Of August, 1921.
CLARENCE SEDGWICK,
Auditor st. Joseph County.
y ~ o.