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production in this country, and we
cannot control the price the buyers
offer, unless they are in a combine
and violate the Sherman antitrust
act. If the producers OF peanuts can
furnish evidence of such violation, Of
course, / will be happy to lay the
matter before the Department of
Justice"
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Macbeth" the Shakespearean
film which was to have been screened
this evening at the Agricultural Col
lege, has been postponed until Satur-
day evening, November 80, when the
public is cordially invited to attend
Admission 70 rchildren will be IS
cents, and for grown people 25 cents,
the performance being put on for the
benefit of the Athletic Association
of the school which has played in
such fire form this fall.
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GETS YEAR FOR KILLING
2 CHILDREN WITH AUTO

ALBANIA, Nov. I8.-Thad PlrkIe,
Charged with running down and kill
ing the two Quinn children ON East
Lake drive, some months ago, was
sentenced to one year in the peni-
tertiary Thursday afternoon, follows
ing verdict of guilty of man
slaughter. Immediately after sem
tence was pronounced, counsel for the
defense Moved for a new trial, which
II granted will be his third At his
first trial a mistria resulted.
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FOR SALE

25 PER CENT DISCOUNT on all
HATS, beginning Tuesday and con-
tinuing throughout the week. Ameri-
Gus Millinery Parlors, Cos Jackson
avenue.-l4-tf.
FOR SALE-Pure-bred, registered
Duroc LoIrs. Cherry King. Ap-
ply Agricultural College.-3-tf.
TELEPHONE Clark's Transfer, sos,
for BANNER LUMP COAL-28-tf
FOR SALE. X. l.. Stalk Cutters;
will cut green cotton stalks. Price
$50. II. r. Johnson 90 If.
FOR SALE-Five room Bungalow,
23S Horne street, for cash. Phone
or write j. 3. Easterlin, Jr., Ander-
sonville, Ga.-oct 2720t.
WATCH the Rcd Trucks hauling
BANNER LUMP RED ASH
COAL-28-tf.
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE-New
Fordson Tractor, Mckay disc pillow
and Roderick Lean harrow. Frank
E. Matthews, Plains, Ga.-12-10t.
FOR SALE-Carload of Tennessee
MULES. Come see them. G. A.
& w. G. Turpin
FOR SALE-100 acres nice pebbly
land, on good road two miles of
Americas. Broom house, two tenant
houses, barn, crib, etc. If you are in
terested in farm close in. at q bar
gain, here is your opportunity. Cash
or terms. P B. Williford.-,16-3t.
COTTON SEED FOR sALE-Addi-
sons Early Prolific, Cleveland's
Wanamaker, Toole's Wilt-Resistant
At $1.75 and $500, f. o. B. shipping
point, while they last. Supply linz
tied. See j. p. Cannon.-2( y
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE-For
fat Beef Cattle or Hogs, two or
three mich cows and calves. Mrs.
A. j. Williams. Phone 420.-17 ST
HEMSTITCHING and picoting at
tachmert. Fits any sewing machine,
$3.50. Buttonhole attachments for
any machines, $40. Mutual Sales Co,
Box 931, Charlotte, N. C.--1S-1t.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
FOR SALE LOST AND FOUND
LOST AND FOUND

LOST-Times- Recorder route book,
with initials "E. R. L" on inside.
Return to Times Recorder
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Just resolved barrel of SAUER
KRAUT Harris Grocery Co-18-1t
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Just received barrel of SAUER
KRAUT. Harris Grocery Co-1S-1t
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An Astounding Work of Genius

Victor Hugo there has been striking literary figure than Vicer
bane whose famous book reached 10 edition here The
thrills the perfection of this masterpiece have been presented
fulyin
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FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE-For
fat Beef Cattle or Hogs, two or
three mich cows and calves. Mrs.
A. j. Williams. Phone 420.-17 ST
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HEMSTITCHING and picoting at
tachmert. Fits any sewing machine,
$3.50 Buttonhole attachments for
any machines, $40 Mutual Sales Co,
Box 934, Charlotte, N. C.-1S-lt.
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COTTON SEED FOR sALE-Addi-
sons Early Prolific, Cleveland's
Wanamaker, Toole's Resistant
At $1.75 and $500, f. O. B. shipping
point, while they last. Supply linn
tied See j. P. Cannon.-2(s y
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Special Ochesa accompanies Picture Miss Melva Clark
sings twice each performance first 'HCSANNA second LA
MARSEILAlSE These the vocal selections used at
the ptial performance OF The Four forsemen New York
Two Days--Nov. 18 and 10
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
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All Seats Reserved.
Make Reservations AT Once
Two Performances Daily
Matinee 300. Night 8:l5
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FOR SATE-Pure-bred, registered
Duroc BoIrs. Cherry King. APP
ply Agricultural College.-3-tf.
The Jewish monitor. (Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex.) 191?-1921, 1921-02-04
Pare Fourteen THE
Back to Normally in American
Reform
Reform

Rabbi ]. H. Stolz, Fort Smith, Arkansas.
The Jewish monitor. (Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex.) 191?-1921, 1921-02-04
THE JEWISH MONITOR

The movement aiming to make the
Temple a social center has been un-
der way for the past two decades.
Quite a few Temples have already
established institutional features to
entertain and instruct young and old.
Others in the Temple Annex have or
gained Boy Scout, Women's and
Mems clubs and literary circles, and
are also interesting affiliated and
unaffiliated Jews of both sexes in
doing personal philanthropic work.
To what proportions this movement
has grown and with what success it
has met, the paper of Rabbi Martin
Zielonka, offered at the Rochester
Conference, makes clear. Rabbi lie
lonka sent out a questionable to all
the rabbis affiliated with the con-
ference, and learned through it that
115 congregations, with membership
totaling 33,O63, are more or less in
terested in social service work. As
to the results attained, "thirty-one
rabbis are positive" that these new
organizations for winning the inter-
est of the American Jew in the Tenn
pie "have awakened the religious con-
seriousness, while fourteen are Of a
contrary opinion
Regarding the value of the social
activities for increasing religious en-
thusiasm, one rabbi holds (page 277)
that social activities show faith So
lidarity, but that is often a matter
of racial pride or selection and not
an evidence Of Judaism" Another
rabbi wrote: at brings some people
to service who do not come other
wise, but the service must be inspira-
tional to hold them"
Another reply analysing the cause
for the present day situation af-
firmed, "The root Of the lack of re-
ligion and attendance in the syna-
gogue rests in the lack of esteem and
spirituation confidence in the rabbi.
The rabbi, If he is a skilled orator,
orator, may be admired for his eff
may be admired for his effort" but
the people have no confidence in his
guidance and the more the sypagog is
secularized the less spiritual influence
has the rabbi upon his people and the
more will his people grow religiously
emaciated."
Another statement taken from the
work Of a Christian writer, 1.-THE
Church Of Tomorrow" by J. H.
Croaker, is as applicable to the syna-
gogue as it is to the church. He
says, 1--WE must keep the fact in
mind that religion is a corporate life
and that piety must create the
wholesome social structure, but the
experiments in this direction soor
made it obvious that to institution.
alize religion overmuch Is to injurt
it. Adding wheels without increasing
the motive power retards the prog
ress Of civilization and Christianity.
In other words, II we Jews desir,
to increase the spirit Of brotherhoo,
and friendship, also the willingness
to engage in personal acts Of kind
ness among ourselves, this can b
derived only from the Jewish teach
ings that instill into our minds an
hearts ideals with their all-compell
ing power to do. Jews are not full
fulling their obligations towards thei
fellow Jews in the synagogue an
community today and are recalcitran
IN thar dut,as toua ~ tha xaet n
The Jewish monitor. (Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex.) 191?-1921, 1921-02-04


has recently come from the press. Not
only rabbis, but also the thinking
man or woman in American Jewry,
irrespective of his or her point of
view regarding our ancestral faith,
will find much of absorbing interest
in the addresses and discussion Of
fered for reading in this volume. One
who reads this book cannot help but
conclude that the Rochester confer
ence of last June proved certainly an
epoch-making one in the Conference
history. We are also made to realize
that a turning point has at last ar
rived in the history of American Ju-
daism.
Reform Judaism interpreted by its
founders in the old and new world
as the endeavor to adapt the religion
of our fathers to the conditions OF
modern life, appears to many at the
present time to mean merely mega
tive attitude towards the old faith.
The pioneers and founders Of Reform
Judaism in America pruned the tree
of our historic faith to maintain its
vigor and beauty.
In our generation many rabbis have
taken it upon themselves to do some
pruning on their own individual ac-
count, to satisfy their individual
within and the ease and convenience
of the Indifferent. For an ever-in-
creasing number Of the laity and rab-
bis today, the synagogue has ceased
to mean House Of Worship and Is
now "a place to enjoy lecture" All
the hallowed associations and poetry
that have endeared the synagogue to
the Jewish heart are at the present
time being sunk into oblivion. The
old Temple proper is made to survive
as a lecture hall, where the rabbi
weekly crates on all the perplexing
problems of our time and offers sug-
gestions to our statesmen and philos-
ophers as to their solution. Preced-
ing and following his "effrot" the
audience" is usually treated to stir
ring grand opera selections.
The time has CINE, however, when
the most eloquent addresses "on the
topics of the day." together with the
singing Of the most highly paid vo-
calists in the community, have lost
their charms. Members Of congrega-
tons whose rabbis are among the
most eloquent among the preachers
Of our time, in manv instances, visit
their Temple only on the high holi.
days, and on oth.r occasions their
seats are occupied by strangers.
A writer in the last number Of The
Union Bulletin apologies for the
present religious indifference ant
non-attendance at the Temple lee
lures, by stating that the old mes
sage of the rabbi has met with gen
eral acceptance and there is no new
appeal Of the rabbi to offer in hi
sermon or address. "The ritual" h
says, and likewise "the spoken wor'
are no longer adequate "The inten
of the addresses is always forestalle'
because the burden Of his argument
the point of his sermon, was thei
viewpoint too" 1.-THE vitalit
or continuity Of the synagogue re
quired the injection Of another preoc
cupation. Hence recreational an
educational programs" Therefor
the rabbi is to become, in addition I
his numerous other tasks, scott
-s-... J;rocf;po tho aorial and nh
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-07
Another Fear" Exploded.
Isl. Adams Messenger

The men who have. been lobbying
against Governor Hardness in the high
way matter have used, as the BACKBONE
of their argument, the contention that
the executive intends to bond the stare
for many millions in order TO have con-
structed a few hundred miles of hard
surface" road, and have pointed to Mr..
Brooks. who was named by Mr.. Hart
ness to succeed Stoddard Bates. as
hard road" man who was to be the IN
str1Iment of the revolution" Comment
ing on Mr. Brooks. The Brattleboro Ike
former has this to say:
I'm his advocacy of the bill proposing
to take from the governor the power TO
appoint the state highway commissioners:
G.. Curt Emery. defeated gubernatorlal
candidate, is reported TO have said that
he could see nothing in Governor Hart
nesss intention to appoint New lamp
shire man but 300 miles of hard-Surtace
roads in Vermont. Looking for the mo,
ment beyond Colonel Emery's restricted
we had almost said warped-vision,
we come upon the fact that the exper~
fence of Clarence NJ. Brooks, of heene,
y. H., whom Governor Hartness named
for commissioner. has been almost en-
tirely on gravel roads. Division 4, OF
which Mr. Brooks has been engineer, has
practically all gravel roads except tor
n few sections in the city of keene. and
when it says that the gravel highways
in this division, which adjoins Windham
county, have been developed to as hlgn
a point of efficiency as anywhere IN New
Hampshire. The probabilities are that
Mr.. Brooks win not become state high
way commissioner but in fairness TO him
it should be said that he is essentially
gravel road man. and his many CheS-
hire county friends believe an unusually
good one
So the claim about Mr.. Brooks proves
TO be as much without foundation az the
bond scare 1t was always a mystery
why the fear of bond issue could maze
such Roadway, for if the members of the
legislature had only stopped to think
for a moment they would have realized
that the governor cannot bond the state;
such action must come from the legiSla-
tors themselves Now the fear" of Mr..
Brooks is likewise exploded. 1t would
seem to The Messenger that the legis-
lators might inquire just why so much
has been given them on
the whole subject
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-07
A DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

One of the most interesting proposals
put forward in the name of the new adj
ministratiOn is the combining of the
army and navy departments under one
head. 1t is reported that Mr.. Weeks
and Mr.. DENLY, in accepting their posts
both did so with the understanding that
they should work together with the ulti-
mate aim of amalgamation. There would
be secretary of national defense" di-
recting not only the two existing de-
partments but also a new one, the de-
partment of aviation. Land, water and
air defense would take equal rank
The plan sounds good. There is no
reason in the nature of things why the
land and water systems of defense should
be kept separate. Many other govern
ments combine them. The existing ar
rangement showed serious defects dur
ing the war, when the army and navy
often got into each Iothers way, over
tapping and interfering, and, according
to some reports, costing the country
hundreds of millions of dollars by bid
ding against each other for supplies.
That could hardly be helped, with two
separate organizations each working in
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-07
MONDAY. MARCH Z, 1921.
THE BUSINESS PARADOX.

Now here is a strange thing. While
most people are sure that business activ-
ity is far below normal, and many bust
ness men insist that it is hopelessly bad,
Theodore II. Price, editor of Commerce
and Labor. a recognized authority on
trade conditions, maintains that bust
ness is good. and proves it. In the last
fortnight. he says. he has talked With
more than a score of retailers from ev-
cry section of the country. and though
in some instances their receipts in dol
lars were less, without exception they
said that their unit sales showed an in
crease of 10 to % per cent over last
February.
Even in Chicago, which now seems to
be the center of depression" he reports,
"a member of a leading drygoods firm
assures me that retail sales have been
far larger than in any corresponding
period in history
Taking the country as a whole. he
finds that the volume of goods chang
ing hands is larger, and at wholesale al
most as large, as during the so-called
prosperity which prevailed at this time
last year" And the retailers are buy
ing accordingly. For each week of last
month there was a larger number of
buyers in New York than there had been
for the corresponding week of 1920.
A wholesaler in Texas reports that in
some lines his stocks are being liquidated
so fast that retailers who have postponed
their buying too long are already beg
ging for goods and having difficulty in
getting them. The people obviously
have money to buy with, in spite of the
large amount of unemployment in some
sections, because they have saved money.
and because incomes in general have not
gone down so much as prices in gen.
eral. As one business man expresses it,
the decline in the national purchasing
power has not been so great as the de-
cline in prices" Wherefore people not
only can buy, but are buying, and will
continue to buy in increasing volume I'M
less they are discouraged by a sharp
upward turn in prices.
1t is this very buying in the midst of
hard times that starts the idle wheels
of industry to moving again and prom
ises an early resumption of general
prosperity-provided business men avoid
the two extremes of yielding to prema-
ture Encouragement or trying to take
any undue advantage of the rising de-
mand.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-07
Not Infallible, But.
(Rutland Herald.)

another thing rather noticeable lately
- tnat the emanatlon of the Vermont
fress bureau in regard to the highway
commissioner I matter appears to be
signify tinctured with the Emery Bates
sentiment. The bureau does not seem
TO have attained to exactly the ouintes-
Sence OF repOrtorial OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
field Reporter.
This sort of a charge is easy to make
and IN fact is always being made against
news associations of the most non-par
Ilsan character. The Associated Press
itseh has not escaped such calumny, so
the unpretentious Vermont Press blu
reau could hardly hope to escape.
30 TAR as observation goes, Miss
Nhlte, editor of the Reporter, has
never never sat IN at the press table of the
mouse or senate at Montpelier She gets
what knowledge of legislative facts she
mas from the daily newspapers, with
perhaps some week lend side lights when
Governor Hartness or his staff or mem
oers OF the legislature are at home for
Drle1 recess. She knows nothing of
capitol '0 ''"''
What right has she or any other
stay-at-hom to criticize a news rather
ing association and allege the coloring
OF news when she does not know what
the news really is? -
The facts about this highway contra
ETersy are that the Emery Bates crowd
nave made practically all the news and
noise. They have done most of the talk
ing. They have provided most of the
copy. Outside of the famous inkwell
episode; they have got into the head
ilnes by sheer force of saying and do
ing head line things.
Does the Reporter or any other critic
thlhk Tor one moment any newspaper
man Is going TO suppress news of that
sort Just because it happens to be
about things uttered and done in favor
OF the Emery Bates faction and dis
tasteful to the governor and his friends
is it eolored news?
II the Reporter or its editor or Gov
eTnor Hartness or any one touched by
the attacks can point out one single in
stance where the truth was either sup
pressed. or distorted, the writer. for
one. viii eheerfully resign in favor of
Miss White and see what sort of n fist
she makes of making over the news to
suit herself
Such an attack is injurious. unfair and
founded either in complete ignorance o
daily newspaper methods or in a pro
Hartness prejudice that will certainl
DO the governor more harm than good
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-07
THE SUNDAY BILL.

There is every reason to believe the
Durham Sunday bill will receive pas
sage in the state house of representatives
tomorrow. Action Saturday was de-
ferred not because any serious opposi-
ton to the measure had developed, but
because friends of the bill including
Senator Durham himself believed that
final action should be taken when prac-
tically all members of the house were
present.
Opposition to the Durham bill has
come mainly from such professional agi-
tators as DIR. Kneeland of the Lords
Day league, and there is little reason
to believe that Vermont Lawmakers
will give greater heed to his arguments
than they would to those of any other
lobbyist. Leaders of the principal de-
nominationaI organizations in the state
have publicly expressed their approval
of the Durham measure, which has al
ready passed the senate without debate
The house will make no mistake if it
takes similar action when the bill is
brought up tomorrow.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-07

to make the best showing
for itself, but there is no reason why so
a system chould be perpet-
uated. There is much promise, too, in
the idea of raising the air service to
equal dignity with the land and sea
service That is as it should be. \ time
may come when the aerial defense is the
most important of the three.
Some criticisms of this plan seem
based on a wrong Interpretation. 1t is
said that the combination proposed
would be a sep backward to primitive
simplicity, and that the departments are
now too vast and complex to be con-
Quoted by one man. If the matter were
worked out rightly, the criticism would
not hold There would still be, vir-
tually, a secretary of war, a secretary
of the navy and secretary of aviation,
to attend to all the regular departmental
work; but there would be one big man,
as secretary of national defense, to pre-
serve the balance between them and CO.
ordinate their activities
InaSmuch As the nation spends more
money for defense than for any other
purpose. the Immense Importance of
such a reform should be self-evident.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-07
Assassinating the Primary.
(Deerfeld Valley Times.l

The senate, in pulling the teeth OF the
primary, has taken what it hopes, or be
lieves, to be the first steps towards the
final repeal of the law
Taking the nomination of candidates
away from the voters means a return
to the old cut -and-dried, hand picked.
machine made method of selecting can.
dldates, wherein the SLATE" is prepared
and delegates to the various conven
tons selected long in advance of the
caucuses, care being taken to select
only those who are known to be safe =
those who will stand without hitch
ing"
In the good old vodka irrigated day
these states" were prepared by a com
mlttee designated by the bosses, and
were chosen from those only whose fit
ness for the position had been proved
no outsiders admitted.
Thus the conventions took the form
OF LenIner 1rotslIy made Soviet commit
meetings, the members of which
could individually be depended on to
act only in accordance with the instruc-
lions from higher up.
The primary gives the voters, male
and female. a voice in the selection of
the officers who are to serve them in
positions of responsibility. The caucus
and convention system gives them the
right, only to vote for candidates arbi
trarily selected for them
. To the workings of the primary sys-
tenn at the last state election, when
machine politicians were turned down
in many cases in favor of popular can
didates, may be ascribed this attempt
on the, part of the upper house to re
turn the state to the control of the
bosses. It is evidence of the survival
of the old stand pat element whose cpl
taph was written in 1912. but which has
been galvanized into activity bv the
sweeping Republican victory of 1920 I'll
is decidedly reactionarv move designed
to boost machine politics once more
into the saddle. 1t practically disfran-
chises the woman voter.
1t is inconceivable that the house viii
concur in this measure, or that the gov
ernor should sign it if passed. Repre-
sentatives have had an opportunity tol
hear from the people back home, |
while the governor owes his nomina |
ION solely to the unrestricted choice of
the voters expressed through the direct
primary.