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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-03
Information About Vermont.
BARRE TimeS.1

Although the situation does not perhaps
indicate any marked trend of people to-
ward Vermont, there is reason for encOur-
agement i'm the fact that the state of Yer
mont's publicity bureau has never been so
frequently queried as to the attractions
and advantages of Vermont as at the pres
ent time. Director Walter II. Crockett of
the bureau says he has never known a
time when 50 many inquiries were re-
ceived for information concerning the
state. There is no doubt that consider
able of this inquiry is directed by organ
izations whose business is to gain informa-
ton and then sell it through various
forms but at the same time there are
many direct inquiries from persons who
are casting about for new locations of sat
isfactory nature. either for residence pur-
poses or for development of industry.
Even from the former, Vermont may get
some benefit through the publicity they
carry out; and from the entire list of per-
sons applying for facts about Vermont
there should be good returns in actual de-
velopment of the state. Moreover. the fire.
quent requests for information about Yer
mont indicate that Vermont is much in
the public mind of the country as a whole
and is by no means eliminated from the
publicity movement.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-03
The Hardness Prestige.

While the reversal of financial and
other material conditions following the
World war may serve to handicap the
carrying out of all the details of the
program of the Hon. James Hardness
for a Greater Vermont at this particu-
lar time, nevertheless he will begin his
administration next week under prom
Using auspices. The great and overshad-
owing consideration in connection with
GovernOr-elect HartneSs is that his heart
is in the right place. When you have
this assurance about any individual,
you can overlook any ShOrt-coming of
merely technical character as to the
carrying out of details of general poll
cieS. The Bennington Banner well sums
up the situation as follows:
The Vermont legislature meets next
week Wednesday for the session of
1921. 1t has plenty of work that. it
ought to do but if it will do a few
things well, it will deserve more credit
than if it undertakes more than il can
possibly accomplish and fails in all of
them. \ curious and unaccountable
blunder of the legislature of two years
ago has resulted in bringing into the
state treasury u surplus of over a mil
lion dollars. and every one of the 21T
members of the new legislature will
probably produce a plan to dispose of
the surplus. Anyhow, we doubt the
surplus being troublesome after the leg
iSlature adJOurnS. Second IN danger 10
the joy of spending a million is the
agony of the normal school issue. The
progress to date seems to have been to
array one prejudice against another,
which is not the best way to arrive at a
just settlement of an important issue.
Governor Hardness is going to Mont
pelier with a tremendous prestige and
it will be wise for the legislature to lis
ten carefully to what he will propose.
Bennington county, in the ODiuion of
the Banner, is sending to the state house
the strongest delegation. taken as a
whole. that has ever gone to Montpelier
from this county in 20 years, and we
expect they will have more influence
than has usually fallen to the share of
Bennington county"
We believe the delegations from other
counties also are going to Montpelier
with a firm determination to cooperate
with the gOvernor-elect in helping to
carry out a program for genuine uplift
in the Green Mountain state.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-03
Football Rivalry.
Burlington Free Press. J

Huntington Free preSS.
Vermont talks of rivalry between the
football teams of its three institutions
of higher learning. but we really have
little conception of the intense competi-
ton, between universities like Yale and
Harvard over promising football players
from the academies and other prepare
tory schools.
The Boston Herald says Harvard is
worried over its apparently waning pop
ularity at Andover and Exeter and it
outlines the cause for this wOrriment in
an interesting way.
According to this authority of the 60
men who made up the football squads
at these preparatory schools only seven
are headed. by their own admission, to
Harvard, whereas 20, nearly half, have
prOfeSsed their intention to matriculate
at Yale.
The Harvard Alumni Bulletin editO-
rally views these figures with distress.
1t wonders why Harvard by the nature
of its location, should be ignored rather
than accepted as an alma mater. and
suggests the rather novel undertaking
Of bringing the entire senior classes at
both Andover and Exeter to Cambridge
annually for a BRET visit.
The Andover PhiIlipian gives the col
| lege preferences of the players in both
teams as follows:
''Of the Andover team. Il are pre-
| pairing LOT 1ale- uNC LOT L TlUCions IuuI
| for Harvard, two for Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology, one each fol
Bowdoin and Dartmouth; four are un-
decided.
"Of the Exeter team nine are going
to Yale, three each to Dartmouth and
Harvard, two to Cornell. one each Il
five other colleges, and four are unde
cided.
I'm the Andover team, the Harvard
| contingent of four come from Somer'
Vile. Brookline and Gardner, Mass, and
| California. The Yale prospects repre-
sent Lawrence and Woburn, Mass.
| New Jersey, three: Connecticut, three
New York. two: Oklahoma, two; Hi
nois 1 Minnesota one; New Hamp'
| shire one"
| The Boston Herald recalls that Pres
| ident Eliot used to say he could dis
cover no connection between the foot
| ball scores and the size of the freshman
| class. although he had diligently hunted
| for it. To all appearances he was right
| for the figures do not indicate that an
unusual series of athletic triumphs
brings more grist to the mill or that a
succession of defeats has any effect in
| the opposite direction.
1t may not be out of place to say that
while we thoroughly believe in college
sports, it is not all of college life to
play football a few weeks each autumn.
The adoption of the broader view Is as
welcome as it is wholesome and uplift-
ing.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-03
Their Full Deserts.
bennington Banner


1t Is sometimes declared, even in the
state of Vermont. that the wealthy and
powerful are able to escape from the con-
sequence of wrong doing while the poor
devil has to suffer. The case of Frank
e.. Rowland. former president of the
Barre savings bank. indicates that those
in place and power do not always go free
For % years Mr.. Rowland has been the
leading citizen of Barre, or. at least. one of
the half dozen principal men of that COM
munity. He bore q prominent part in
every important Barre activity, has twice
represented that city in the house and
been twice a member of the state senate
He was even member of the senate when
arrested charged with the embezzlement
for which he has just been sentenced to
prison. He does not appear to have per
sonally spent the money taken, but-to have
used it to save from business failures Ger
tain Barre business men caught in the col
lapse of the granite business as the result
of the war. but he has to take his medicine
just the same. The truth is that in Yer
mont both high and low get their full de-
SertS, sometimes, and sometimes both eS-
cape. There have been plenty of exam
pies both WAYS
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-03
Little Benny's
Note Book
BY LEE PAPE.

Me and Leroy Shooster and Sam Cross
was setting on Sam Crosses back tents
jest setting there with our feet hanging
over and some tuff looking kid started to
go past with a red sWetter on, and us
fellows started to bang our feet agenst
the tents Jest to show we dident give
darn how tuff he looked, and he stopped
and made fearse face, saying, Hay, are
you banging your. feet at me?
Is 3 not saying enything as II we
thaWt he wasent werth answering and
| he sed. Come down heer, eny one of you,
and Ill puntch your face in so quick you'll
think you was run over twice in the same
place.
Us 8 keeping on not saing enything,
and the tuff kid sed, can HEX eny5 of
yon.
Wich we dident say he couldent. and
he sed, | can lick eny 8 of you being
all there was, and he made cupple OF
more tearse faces and kepp on wawking
down the alley, Sam Cross saying. Heck,
whose he think he is, anyways? and me
saying He's big bluff that's all he is,
and Leroy Shooster saying, Jest because
he's got red swetter he thinks he's
Jack Dempsey in disguise.
And we waited till he was about
block away and still going and then we
all started to yell, Come back heer, If y0m
wunt a fife, come back heer and weTn
show you, come back heer.
WITCH wat did the tuff kid do but start
to come back. and us 3 quick jumped
down off the tents into Leroys yard and
the tuff kid started to bang on the gate
saying, Well watts you going to do, watts
YOU going to do. you big stiffs? Come
on out heer and get licked or Il cline
over after you WITCH he started to do
and IFS 8 Quick ran in Leroys kitchen
and locked the door, and we waited about
5 minnits and then went ont again and
looked over the tents careful, and the
tuff kid was blocks away and still going,
and we all yelled, Come back heer. you.
come back heer we dare you, come back
heer.
Wich he dident, either on account of
being afraid or elts on account of
hoing tired of coming back, and US 3
climbed back on top of the tents and
started to bang our feet agen as if we did
ent care how meny tuff kids went past.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-03
New England Railroads.
(St. Adams Messenger. J

Those New England business men who
are gifted with vision have been giving the
railroad situation serious attention. The
spirit of hostility to the lines which once
existed has given way among those who
see conditions clearly to a spirit of CO
operation and helpfulneSs.
At last it has been realized just how
important the railroads of the section are
i to the industries and to the man and
woman who tolls for a living. New Eng
land is now in competition with all parts
of the country and in order to compete she
must have adequate transportation facili-
ties.
In Boston this week Governor Coolidge
of Massachusetts discussed the situation
before the governors of the other New
England states or their representatives.
He showed how the New England roads
must be given more revenue, either by in
creasing their share of the joint rates on
traffic to and from points beyond the New
England district, or by direct raise IN
rates.
''In the last analysis" the next vice
president says, 1.-THE New England public
themselves will have to determine whether
they desire an adequate transportation
system and, if they do, it will be neces-
sary to meet the burden of supporting 1T. y
The simple answer is New England
cannot afford to have less than adequate
service. If she is content with some
thing less she will have to pay Tor IT by
permitting other sections of the country
to forge ahead industrially at her expense.
Her property will decline in value; her
industries will shrink in size or be re
moved to other parts, and New England
will enter upon period of decline, a de-
cline which will accelerate in more than
exact ratio with the neglect of our trans
portatiOn.
There is no doubt about this. There
fore, it is in the interest of every bust
ness man, of every worker, to stand behind
the roads in their claim for greater re-
turns. Some of the best business men in
Vermont have recognized this and have
given their support to the roads in the
matter. So in other states, leaders are
openly and frankly with the roads. 1t is
a case of self-preservation with New Eng
land and every New Englander who wants
to keep his property value intact and who
wants to insure his continued prosperity
in this section should indicate his support
of the roads.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-03
Good Fellows.
(RUtldnd Herald !

The sentence of Frank G. Rowland
| president OF the suspended Barre Savings
bank and Trust company, of from fonI
c 10 s seven years IN state PRISON, closes
FFn Zap OF mat institution that is far
from agreeable and brings to an end the
pHohc and probably the business career
| OF man whose activities have been of a
peculiarly widespread character.
Twice member of the house of represen
tatIVes, twice county senator. teller and
eashler OF the National bank of Barre
president OF a mutual insurance company
trustee of the city hospital and library
Justice OF the peace and finally head OF
the institution with which he brought his
banking career TO an lgnoble close, the
| positions OF trust which Rowland held
are SIMPLY astounding in the light of his
subsequent history and his recent confes-
sion and sentence.
Almost every community at some time
| mas witnessed the career of some such
man, implicitly trusted by his fellows. ell
eVated to exalted position, treated with
respect and honor, let, in the glare OF
| some, exposure, proven absolutely un-
worthy of trust and confidence.
ones faith in human nature needs to
ne fortified by the example of the hun
dreds and thousands who never lapse
from honor and integrity, as compared
with the few, comparatively, who fail;
otherwise, we might consider our civil
cation and our standards something of a
| failure
Coupled with the sentence of Rowland
almost. is the remarkable finding of the
Lamollle county jury in the Mudgett case
and the. prompt. probably exemplary SEN
tence of 80 years practically for Iife) inn
posed by Judge s. r. Moulton on the re-
spondent, whom the jury found guilty OF
one of the most atrocious crimes in the
history of the county.
Mudgett, according to the evidence,
was clearly one of those pleasant-spoken,
easy-going. well-fed good fellows" popu-
lar with women, passing as a fairly good
sort with men and yet entirely without
anything resembling moral scruple where
the code of sex was concerned.
just as men in hundreds of commune
ties trust the Howlands of business, just
Sc women seem to "fall for'' men like
N1udgett. and the more carelessly he
wears his amorous chains the more COM
pletelv some of them become involved. 1t
would be hard to say how far Mudgett's
adventures went among the women of one
town alone, to say nothing about the
of I'll trades" life has led him.
One would say that grass widower"
would to some extent advertise his IT.
responsibility of serious social ties, but
not so with Mudgett. The printed-and
nrintable--record of the case shows
how completely and thoroughly he sue
creded in fooling at least one unfortunate
Amy Shonio paid the supreme penalty
How many more women were merely
more fortunate but Just as infatuated
4 would he hard to tell.
Judge NOulton's sentence stands a
something Of an example to men of that
! type, and if, as most observers antici
nate. the supreme court confirms it, the
activities Of one Lothario, at least, will
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-03
The Winter Hazard.
(Rutland Herald.1

Coasting accidents have already been
reported from different parts of the
state and at least one has resulted fatal
". When it is considered that there has
been little coaSting as vet this winter
the number of accidents is cause for so.
Der reflection. Coupled with these, the
wire dispatches tell of several drowning
accidents. outside the state. where heed
less Youngsters either skated on ice that
was too thin or eoasted upon it,
Skating and coasting accidents are the
two menaces of the northern winter and
eternal vigilance is the only guarantee
against them. 1t is not an easy matter
to convince n youngster that there is
any danger in skating on the millpond
or creek or in coaSting on city streets.
nearly all of which cross other streets
upon which traffic may or may not be
heavy. The youngsters give no thought
to the matter.
A good many cities are forced to set
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-03
Surplus.
(Rutland IIerald.l

y curious and unaccountable blunder
of the legislature of two years ago has
resulted in bringing into the state treas
ury a surplus of over a million dollars.
and every one of the pr members of the
new legislature will probably produce a
plan to dispose of the surplus. Anyhow.
we doubt the surplus being troublesome
after the legislature adjourns. Ben
nington Banner.
The Banner sees fit to call it a blum
der. which shows that its editor certain
ly was not present when the state tax
was voted. The governor and most of
the members of the board of control
were of the opinion that 20-cent state
tax would be sufficient, but the house
committee on ways and means, consider
ing the mounting prices of labor and all
commodities as well as the indefinite
size of the appropriation required for
state pay for soldiers, favored a 30-cent
tax.
The actual motion for a 4O-cent state
tax was made by Representative G.. A
Davis of Rutland town, who gave some
very clear reasons therefor, and a very
large majority of the house agreed with
him.
As it turned out the state pay for sol
diers ran somewhat under the estimate
while the total increase in all depart
ments and all special funds was only
about S730,0O0 for the biennium. includ-
Ing state DdN, the latter running INTO
nearly $S65,0OO. This showing was not
entirely due to the "blunder' the Ban
ner refers TO, and some credit is due the
heads of departments and the board of
control for the result.
Unquestionably too much money was
raised for the expenses of the past BIZ
ennium but the surplus of S1100.O0O is
probably better than the deficit which
the budget committee predicts if all APP
preparations asked for are made by the
legislature of 1921
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-03
Why All Western Farms?
Bennington Banner. }

If the United States government is go
ing to give farm to those veterans of
the late war who desire to become
farmers, as part of the bonus plan,
there is absolutely no reason why the
plan should be used solely for the deyel-
opment of the West. There are several
thousand vacant farms in Vermont and
several hundred thousand in the states
east of the Mississippi. A larger pro-
portion of them can be bought for less
money than it takes to develop a farm
from wild land of the West that has
never been titled. Eastern members of
congress should be on the job and see
that the eastern states get a share of
this sort of development at the public
expense.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-03
Today'S Anniversaries.

1140-Benedict Arnold, who plotted to
betray West Point to the British,
born at Norwich. Conn. Died in
london. June II. 1901.
surprised and defeat
od the British at Princeton, \.
].
1795-Josiah Wedgwood, originator of
the famous pottery ware which
hears his name. dind :" England.
Born there July u, 1870.
lS31-George Meanwhile enn, who
wrote more than 100 novels and
1000 short stories, born in Lon
don. Died there in 1909.
1S46-Franklin Murphy, governor of
New Jersey, born in Jersey City.
Died at Palm Beach, Fla, Feb.
%. 1920.
1S11-Several German bankers were
condemned to imprisonment for
subscribing TO the French loan
1S96-Great war excitement in England
over the kaiser's message of con-
graduation to President Kruger.
1907-French church and state separa-
ton law was promulgated.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-03
Today S Events

The supreme court of the United
States viii reconyene today after the
holiday recess.
Joseph NJ. Dixon, former United
States senator, will be inaugurated to-
day as governor of Montana.
Today will be inauguration day in
Utah. when Governor Charles r. Mabey
and other state officials elected in No
vember will be indicted into Office
What promises to be the largest exhi-
bition of motor trucks ever held in
America will be opened in New York
city today under the auspices of the
Motor Truck Association of America.
The ease of Truman FL. Newberry,
United Statess senator from Michigan,
and others convicted of violations of the
corrupt practices act is d0cketed for
argument today in the supreme court of
the United States.
The state legislatures which are to
convene today in New York, Ohio. and
California are expected to consider and
act upon numerous important measures
dealing with industrial, economic and
| other problems now awaiting solution.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-03

aside certain streets upon which coast
ing is permitted and to forbid it on more
dangerous thoroughfares. Some even go
as far as to put a Waterman at any
hazardous intersection. 1t is wise
precaution that may prevent broken
limbs or fatal collisions.
The matter of skating on ice that is
too thin is not SO easy to regulate. The
parental agency alone can control this
menace and it would seem to be COM
nonsense on the part of parents to in
still into the minds of their offspring
that grave danger turks in the geld sur
face of the inviting pond, unless suffi-
cient cold weather has developed to re-
move it
Most of these accidents are prevent
able. Commonsense and caution can
eliminate many of them
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-03

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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-03
In the DAYS News.

Joseph NJ. Dixon, who takes Office to-
day az governor of Montana, has had d
long experience in public affairs, both
state and national. He is best remem-
bered, perhaps, for his services as
United States senator from Montana,
to which Office he was elected as Re
publican in 1906, after having served
two terms in the lower house of con-
gresS. Mr.. Dixon is a native of North
Carolina and received his education at
Earlham college, at Richmond Ind.
and at Guilford college, North Carolina.
Shortly after he became of age he re-
moved to Montana, settling in AIissoula
for the practice of law. In the earlier
part of his public career he served as
prosecuting attorney of his county and
as member of the Montana legislature
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-03
Today'S BIRTHDAYS.

Rear Admiral Albert Ross, Z. s. N,
retired, born at Clarion, Pa, 70 years
ago today.
Lima Abarbanell, celebrated actress
and singer. born in Berlin, Germany, Al
years ago today.
Adelheid. only daughter of the former
Emperor Charles of Austria, born at
Richenau, seven years ago today
Lee S. Overman, United States SEN
ator from North Carolina, born at
Salisbury, \. c., 81 years ago today.
Herbert Rrenon, celebrated as a di-
rector of motion picture spectacles, born
in Dublin, Ireland. Al years ago today.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-03
TO TIE suRsCRIRERs-

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-
abling the cause of the 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, 1921-01-03

One by one the various officials of the
Wilson administration are taking
houses in Washington. Perhaps Secre-
tary Daniels would feel more at home
in house-bOat on the Potomac.