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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-08
Gardens of Ashes

The town of Sheepshead Bay some
years ago entered into an arrange
ment with the borough of Brooklyn
whereby the contents of all the Brook
Ign ash barrels were delivered for the
filling in of a great swamp.
The refuse, reaching Sheepshead
Bay In large metal tanks, was carried
out into the swamp by specially CON
structed trolleys and dumped. In this
way some hundreds of acres were con
verified into dry land.
The refuse contained so much vege-'
table and animal matter that almost
Immediately grass and sunfiowers be-
gan to grow on the surface of the ma
terial, and by the end of the second
year thrifty Italians had planted most
of the area with cabbage and other
vegetables. The ash dump became a
truck garden.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-08

to developing an institution which will
be a great bureau of information regard
ing the present conditions of this and dis
tant lands. We shall welcome special
students, explorers. and authors who
wish to make Clark university library
their headquarters while they are prepar
ing manuscripts for publication. This
nation has closed the period of isolation
and become one of the great world pow
ers. We must from now on have at our
command a knowledge of the world"
The citizens of this country have pos
~esSed so many advantages in the natural
resources of the land, in its vast extent
and varied climate, in its early isola-
ton from the disturbances of the rest of
the world. that they have not been com
PEELED TO 90 deeply into the study of
world geography, languages or customs.
The time has come when the United
States must either know more of such
things or achieve only its second best in
international affairs.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-08
THE MODERN MONROE
DOCTRINE.

The Monroe Doctrine is approaching
its centenary. In view of the important
part it has played in the history of the
United States a special celebration of
this hundredth anniversary has been
proposed. John \. Stewart of the Sui
grave Institute urges that a part of any
program hOnOring the Monroe Doctrine
ought to be the PRONUNCIATION of mod
ern version of it, adapted to the new CON
dtions which have come to exist on the
Western Hemisphere.
When the Monroe Doctrine was first
declared, the nations of South America
were in a chaotic state of development
and might easily have fallen prey to the
selfish designs of Old World powers.
Even the United States was on a far
from stable footing. Unprejudiced judges
admit that American isolation rather
than strength, materially aided by the
British feet, maintained the Monroe Doc
trine up to the close of the Civil war.
After that the United States was better
able to make good its own warning to
the other nations.
I
powerful nation on the American CONT
ncnts, but she is not the only nation
of strength and pride. The southern re-
publics have largely achieved stability
in government, integrity, peaceful deVel-
opmcnt and beneficent purposes.
The modern version of the Monroe
Doctrine suggested by Mr.. Stewart &C
kowledges that fact in these words:
The free nations of North and South
America are sovereign on this continent,
their fiat is law upon the subjects upon
which they confine their joint interpOsi-
ton. They harbor no thought of ag-
gression against the rest of the world,
desiring only to be permitted to pro-
gress in the arts and customs and activ-
tiles of peace, and to work out in their
own way, AN enduring civilization that
will bless the world
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-08
State Finances.
CSt. Adams Messenger. J

tSt. Adams Messenger.)
f, With different people calling the same
hgures surplus. cash balance and deficit
1t IS no wonder that the people of w. Vcr.
mont u are all at sea about state finances
It, IT, IS an old saying that figures do not lie,
oIt at the same time they lend them
selves to the manipulation If adro;t 'I ronn
ana the same set of figures can do duty
IN two or more WAYS. ''
just what the reason is for all This ron
fusion cannot be plainly seen. The situ,.
tlon ought to put the legislature on it's
guard. however, in the making Of appro-
p l and Governor Hardness did well
70 remind the general assembly Of its res
possibility in this regard
II ms warning against imposing any state
taN TINS year unless it is absolutely neces-
s say was timely; Many people feel that
the state tax the past two years was
either unnecessary or unnecessarily high
iney don't want any more mistakes of
TINS character. They don't want to pile nm
surplus in the state treasury. 4 sur.
plus Is too much of a temptation to waste
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-08
UNIVERSITY GEOGRAPHY.

The specialization of geography is the
platform of the recently inaugurated
president of Clark university. That
sounds odd as subject for university en-
phasis; but the oddness all lies in the
attitude of the public. Most persons
think of geography as an elementary
school study, connected with painfully
drawn maps and beautiful charts pasted
all over with diminutive representations
of the chief products of different sections
of the world. Very few people look
upon geography as a serious subject, a
thorough knowledge of which would ma
terially benefit the nations foreign COM
merce, the diplomatic service and indus
trial progress.
President Atwood explains his point of
view ably:
We shall offer to teachers, to men
entering large business enterprises, es-
pecially international trade, and to all
those who wish to enter consular or dip
lomatic service, special facilities in the
study of geography. We must forward
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-08
He Made Eugene Weep.

An old singer living in England, NJ.
l.. Albani eye, recalls an incident
which indicates how heavily the late
Empress Eugene bore her many sor-
rows.
MANY years ago I used TO take my
holiday on Deeside," he writes the Dali
ly Telegraph, land once at least every
season was called to Balmoral to sing
before Queen Victoria. On one of these
occasions the empress, who was on
visit at the castle, came with the
queen TO hear me. l believe that she
had not heard any music since the
death of the emperor, and l had scarce
ly finished my first song when she
burst out crying. The queen, on seeing
this, began to cry also. and l. too. from
sympathy, l presume, with the two
great ladies, could hardly restrain my
tears. l, however, very soon recovered
my composure and was able to con-
tinue my work.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-08
HAD QUEER MENTAL STREAK
Stories Told Of Oliver Cromwell Would
Lead One to Doubt His Com
plete Sanity.

IL Oliver Cromwell had lived In
these days a committee of alienists
doubtless would have investigated his
sanity before now. For the Protector
had most abnormal streak I'm his
mental makeup. Fancy a man that
could sign the death warrant of a
king and then turn and spatter the
ink from his pen into the face of
friend. In his youth taverns were the
chief resort of Cromwell. His rasn
and boisterous behavior early es-
tranged him from his equals and he
came to associate with class beneath
him. For he could brook no interfer-
ence or contradiction. The matter of
the score at the inns where he
caroused concerned him very little:
the bills frequently went unpaid and
he became extremely unpopular with
the alewives of Huntingdon who, when
they saw him coming, would lock the
doors to keep out the noisy bully. So
Oliver turned out to be a wild and dis
sipated youth. The same incOrrigible
spirit ran throughout his life. 1t led
him to encourage his soldiers to play
practical jokes upon each other, such
as putting hot Goals in the other fell
lows boots. At the marriage of his
daughter in 1867 to Rich, the Protect
or threw sack posset among the laui-s
to soil their rich clothes, which they
took as a favor from him, strange as it
may seem. And he put sticky candy
upon the chairs where his guests wers
TO sit, and pulled off his son-in-law's
peruke, pretended to throw it into the
fire, and ended by sitting on ft.-Phil-
Gdelphia Record.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-08
TOdly's Anniversaries.

lSl3-Andrew c. Magrath. leader of the
secession movement in South Caro-
lima, born at Charleston, s. c. Died
there, April 9, 1898.
lS46-Rev. Ashbel Baldwin. the first Epi.-
copal minister ordained in tn
United States, died at Rochester
\. \. Born at Litchfeld, Conn
March :. 1857.
lS1l-The government of Austria granted
complete amnesty for political Of
lenses.
lS72-Earl of Mayo. viceroy of India
assassinated at Port Blair by con
Wet.
lS79-Peace between Russia and Turkey
signed at ConstantinoDle.
lS9i-R. NJ. Ballantyne. who wrote many
popular books for boys, died in
Rome. Born in Edinburgh, April "a
1925
l904-The war between Russia and Japan
was launched with a midnight at,
tack by Admiral Togo on Port Ar
thur.
I9l9-The mines at Butte. Mont, were
closed by an l. w w strike
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-08

Governor Clement brought about the
consolidation of the state prison and the
house of correction as a step in economy.
1t has been in effect long enough for in
teIligcnt comparison First a financial
comparison is made The net cost of
these two institutions for the year of
1919 (when they were maintained as sep
arate institutions and 1920 (when they
we're under consolidation for the entire
year, was $63,G27.S5 and $50, 431.2G re-
spectivcly. This is an apparent saving
of So. 1868 and a good financial show
ing.
In other ways. less desirable results
have followed this consolidation. 1t has
thrown persons convicted of misdemean-
ors into the same institution and in as
ISOLATION with those convicted of felony.
As an illustration: y young man con
sicted of drunkenness, petty thieving or
any of the lesser crimes is incarcerated
IN the same institution as the man con-
victed of murder, manslaughter. burglary
or other serious crimes. While the pris-
ncrs in the house of correction have
cells one side of a corridor and the priS-
oncrS in the state prison have cells on
the other side. they work in the same
shop, eat at the same table and the am
atcur i'm crime associates with the hard
ened and most vicious of criminals. For
the amateur in crime it is more of a
house of incorrection than of correction.
For the amateur woman criminal the
results are even worse. a young woman
caught in immortality and sentenced to
the house of correction is imprisoned
with diseased and confirmed prostitutes.
She is exposed TO disease. schOoled in
immodesty and the opportunity to re-
turn to clean and decent life after leav-
ing the institution is seriously dimin-
ished. If the state had an institution
for women alone where the young pris-
onerS with a desire to reform could be
kept free from contamination, given an
opportunity to 90 outside the institution
and work under an honor system and
the incOrrigible cases segregated in the
stricter confinement they deserve, it
would tend to make possible the higher
and better work for which such an insti-
tuition is designed. Governor Clements
has resulted in a saving of
dollars, but it seems probable that the
separation of these two institutions might
give the state better results in improving
the men and women placed under their
and discipline.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-08
Little Benny's
Note Book
By LEE PAPE.

Satidday AFTERNOON my cuzzin Artie
came GROUND to help me play with my
new electric trains, and we were going
to have a swell time and | sed to pop,
Pop can | move the setting room ferni-
ture back so me and Artie can set up the
tracks and play with my new electric
trains?
WY. | don't know. l should think on a
Lcwtitill day like this you would wunt
to go out and get the air and the sun
shine, sed pop, and | Sed. Aw G. pop we
wunt to play with the trains, we don't
feel like air and sunshine.
Wy my deer boy, air and sunshine are
of the most important things in the
verdi. espeShilly air and partickilly sun
shine, sed pop, | tell you wat III do, III
give you money so you can both go to
the movies.
Well gosh pop, movies amt air and
sunshine. | Sed.
They mite show picktures of oceans
and mountains and ware can YOU get
more air and better sunshine than oceans
and mountains? sed pop.
But we wunt to play with my new
pop? ! sed.
Well. let me see, well. to tell Won
the truth Ill half to send those trains
to the shop to be fixed. sed pop.
Wy do you, pop, there amt enything
to be fixed about them. pop. | sed. and
pop sed, Yes there is. unfortunately. you
see | was looking them over last mite
that Is to say | meen | was playing with
them and it seems | broke them somewhat
Aw q pop, wat the heck aw heck
pop. e. holey smoaks jimminy crickits
q WIZ. pop. that's a heck of a note. | Sed
WITCH it was, and pop gave us money
TO go to the movies and he gave me a
eXter quarter besides. making me feel
little better but not all.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-08
I'm the Days News.

Cen Jan Christian SHUTS. whose nre-
miership is at stake in the general election
to be held in South Africa today. became
world figure during the late war when
he sat as a member of the British Impe-
rial war cabinet and proved himself one
Of the ablest statesmen of the emnrre
Even before the world conflict Gen
eral SHUTS had to his credit a record of
achievements in many directions, as stu
dent, lawyer, soldier, and statesman, such
as few men can show. 4 native of Cane
Colony, he went to England in his youth
and won signal honors in scholarship while
a student at Cambridge Upon his return
to South Africa he soon became a recog-
nizcd leader of the bar in .,Johannesburg.
In the South African war he held supreme
command of the Boer forces in Cane Col
onv, After the war he devoted himself
to the work Of reconstruction and in 1916
lie led the brilliant military campaign of
the imnerial forces against the Germans
in East Africa
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-08
Today's Events

Sixty years ago today jefferson Davis
was selected Tor the presidency of the
Confederate States of America.
New Orleans proposes to revise the ia
nous Mardi Gras carnival TODAY with the
pageant of Rex and much of the old-time
festivities.
The first large gathering of woman suf-
fragists i'll the South since the enfranchise-
ment OF women will be opened in Atlanta
today, with delegates in attendance from
many of the southern states.
The dedication of the University Of Tul-
sa; formerly Henry Kendall college, will
take place today at Tulsa, Okla, with
Congresswoman elect Alice Robertson. at
one time a teacher in the college. among
the scheduled speakers
Two proposed amendments to the con-
stltution of Alabama are TO be voted ON
by the electors of that state today. One
calls for $5,000000 state bond issue and
the other provides for certain additional
qualifications for registering and voting.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-08
Tlnnher From Dead Trees.

Some prejudice exists against the
use of timber cut from dead trees.
says the American Forestry Maya
zine. AS a matter of fact when sound
dead trees are sawed into lumber. ana
the weathered or charred outside is
cut away, there IS no method known
to the forest products laboratory by
which the lumber can be distinguished
from that cut from live trees. except
that the lumber from dead trees may
be partly seasoned when sawed.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-08
OBJECT TO MENTAL DUTIES
Reason That Is Assigned for the Pres
ent Scarcity of Trained Nurses
in Hospitals.

~
The full utility of many hospitals IS
now impaired by a lack of nurses
writes "Girard" In the Philadelphia
Press.
Howard Butler, Jr., is trustee Of an
important hospital here and he tells
me they need 80 per cent more nurses
than they can get.
why are nurses so scarce?" I
asked.
II presume" answered Mr.. Butcher,
whose business, as you know. is that
OF banker and broker, sit is because
girls think they can earn more money
in an easier way in some other occu-
patton"
1 have talked with doctors of wide
hospital experience about it and they
say that the old practice of making
girls in training for nurses do druid
gerry for year or so has prevented
many young women from entering the
profession.
"What good" said one great sur
geon, did it do to a nurses skill to
make her scrub floors or wash win
dows? AS well make medical students
polish shoes, keep up the furnace fires
and sweep out the lecture rooms
Another physician Of long expert
ence and who is connected with big
hospital, added:
1.-THE hospitals will be obliged to cut
out the manual labor for training
nurses and will probably reduce the
years of training, or the country will
go back to the conditions when it had
few or no trained nurses"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-08

The Reformer is on sale every evening by
the following news dealers:
Brattleboro, BrattlebCro News Co, {. w
Cleavelarld, S. L. Purinton CEEteyville)
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stand, Gilbert J. POllica, 2T South Main St
(Fort Drummer district.
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East Dummerston, NJ. E. Brown.
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Greenfield, Mass, Greenfield News Co.
Greenfield, Mass. G. A. Hays.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-08
TO THE SUBSCRIBERS.

II Ia the aim of the management 60 S@surs
efficient service in the delivery of the paper
each night. and il solicits the cooperation OF
subscribers to that end. Prompt reports should
on the morning following the omission, in
person, by telephone or postal card, thus en-
abling the cause of the error to be promptly
and accurately discovered and the proper rem
edy Immediately applied. II 10 only by this
method that the publisher San secure the de-
sired aervice.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-08
TOday'S Birthdays.

Everett ]. Lake, governor of Connect
cut, born at Woodstock, Conn, 80 years
ago today.
DIR. Rush Rhees. president of the Uni
versity Of Rochester, born in Chicago, 81
years ago today.
Rear Admiral William w Mead. L. s
n, retired, born at Burlington, Ky, &c
years ago today.
Ad Wolgast, former champion light
weight pugiIist, born at Cadillac, Mich,
% years ago today.
Baron Rothschild. head of the English
branch OF the great family of international
bankers, born in London, So years ago to-
day.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-08
Asking For Aid.
bennington Banner.)

Representative A. B. Clark of Readsboro
is asking for a state appropriation to helm
build bridge over the Deerfeld river in
the village of Readsboro Bennington and
Windham counties are also asking S..
from the state to render the old turnpike
road over the mountain from East Airing
ton to West Wardsboro again passable.
1t passes through the towns of Sunder-
land and Stratton. both very small and
poor. and Vermont ought to and can aft
ord to give them this small aid
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-08

be charged with lack of trust in the peo-
pie and lack of trust in all the future
legislatures which are to be elected in Yer
mont they would grow red in the face and
declaim against such imputations. Yet
their vote reveals that this distrust of the
people and of future legislatures is in their
minds. for with the time lock removed all
proposals would have to receive the APP
prevail of two legislatures and of the PEG
pie at a referendum.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-08

British statesmen say they are will
ing to put their navy on an equality
with Ours-which means either reducing
theirs or waiting until we catch up
but of course that won't satisfy the jim
goes and armament-makers in either
country.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-08
What the Banner Thinks.
bennington Banners

There is no reason in the world why the
governor should Teappoint any state Off
gives reasonable promise of being better
ard more efficient after short tenure in
office. The Banner believes that Governor
Hartness should reappoint State Highway
Commissioner Stoddard r. Bates, not be-
cause he is perfect. but because there is
no one in view who seems likely TO prove
as capable.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-08

y minister of Upton, Mass, has sug-
gested to his congregation that young
couples do some of their Sunday "moon-
ing in the church instead of the park
He will have to guarantee a dim and
religious light if it is to be a success.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-08
TO ADVERTISERS,

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an inch for first insertion, 80 cents an inch
for each subsequent insertion. Limited space
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Space rates on application.
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first insertion with 50 per cent discount for
each subsequent insertion without change of
copy. Minimum charge 20 cents. Cash with
order.
Reading Noticcs-Twenty cents per line hrst
insertion with 50 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, 1921-02-08
almost" if Not Quite.
Barre 1imes.0

Gov lIartness's frankness in annomc.
ing publicly his determination not to re-
appoint State Highway Commissioner
Bates was almost startling. Governors If
Vermont have not been prone to think
out loud in that fashion.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-08

Admiral Sims, while not glimpsing any
immediate trouble, says I'VE might as
well have our hands on our guns" And
any landlubber knows what's likely to
happen when a gun-toter keeps lingering
his weapon.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-08

The United States paid "146 a head"
for the Reds deported on the latest ark
Bolshevist heads are worth that much
only when you're getting rid of them.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-08

The Spikers, the principals in an in
ternational war romance, have appeared
in the front page news again, the oc-
casion being their first wedding anniver-
sary. The report says, "all are happy"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-08

DIR. Bowlby, the reformer of Sunday
blue law fame, approves of kissing on
the Sabbath, again proving that every
cloud has its silver lining.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-08
DistruSt The People.
ID. AIhans AInssenner !

ISL. AIbans Messenger)
Inc minority proposal to remove the
time-lock provision of the state constitU
ton was ruthlessly killed in the senate
with only. one vote in its favor If the SEN
ators voting against the proposal were to
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-08
Memher Of The Associated Press.

The Associated Press Is exclusively en-
titled to the use for publication of ell news
dispatches credited 10 il and not otherwise
credited in this paper and afso the local news
published herein
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-08

The New Jersey legislature has again
decided to reject the eighteenth amend
ment. 1t appears to be similar to
boomerang-it doesn't stay rejected.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-08

Through Noslle, the minister of defense,
Germany branded the allied demand for
the surrender of so German war cul-
pTlts' as mOnstTOus.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-08

That's a good idea to nave America
honor an unknown hero of the World
war" Goodness knows it has dishonored
enough of its known heroes.