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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24
Republicans on Good Behavior.
burlington Free Press

Some Republicans in Vermont and
elsewhere seem to be acting on the theory
that the overwhelming majority for
Harding and Coolidge last November
gives our party 4 long. If not permanent.
lease of power.
That very attitude will do more than
any other one thing to retire the Re
publican party in the next election. 1t
viii lead reactionarics to do what other
wise they would not dare to do and thus
invite popular rebuke and party defeat,
Congressman Greene is thoroughly
alive to the situation. He says the Re
publican party faces one of the most Sc
we're tests in its history. The fixed ex-
penses of the United States are so enor-
nous, as a result of the war, that the
party will be utterly unable to meet pub
lie expectation of material reduction
in taxation.
People want protection, and this cry
comes even from some southern states.
At the same time people are crying for
a reduction in the cost of living. Which
horn of the dilemma do you take? And
so with various other national issues.
Here in Vermont we see some Repub-
licans taking the very attitude toward
woman suffrage and direct nominations
by the people that they condemned others
for taking when it looked as though Pres
ident Wilson would sweep the country
for his league of nations.
comparatively
since the State Republican committee by
unanimous vote called upon Governor
Clement to so to the expense of calling
the Vermont legislature in special session
in order that Vermont might ratify the
nineteenth amendment to enable our
women to vote. Now it is to laugh
Today majority of the Vermont sem
ate has passed n reactionary primary
bill, which in effect DISTINGUISHES the wo-
men. whose support for Harding and
Coolidge Republicans in Vermont and
elsewhere We're 50 tremendously anxious
to secure.
Those Vermont reactionaries are gig.
Cling among themselves now as having
done cute trick They do not. however.
see the really funny side of their pre-
dicament. When the women of Vermont
are asked to vote for them again. they
will realize how ludicrous in the extreme
their present funny somersauit ready is.
and yet how disgusting it is for all right
thinking people who have due regard
for political consistency, party success
and progress, as we'll as individual sin
cerity
If the vote of n majority of the Yer
mont senate against direct nominations
by the voters is sample of Republican
reaction in general throughout the coun-
try. lt Is safe to say that the defeat of
the Republican party in 1924 is already
as good as assured.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24

siderably less state highway money was
spent in Windham county than other
wise would have been the case. Indeed,
this failure of Windham county towns to
take advantage of the state-aid provision
may explain the popular belief that the
state highway commissioner discrimin-
ated against this county in the appor-
tionment of highway funds. However
that may be. the time for action on this
matter for the ensuing year is next Tues
day, and it is to be hoped that the towns
of this county will make a better show
ing than they did a year ago. The prop
osition IS obviously TO the towns advan-
tage: For every dollar they appropriate
for highway purposes in excess of the
20 per cent required under section 1888,
the state is obliged to contribute an
equal amount-certainly an easy way to
get 50 worth of highway improvement
for 81.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24
ABSOLUTE EQUALITY.

absolute Equality for Women" in
Guiding abolition of their special priv
ileges as we'll as of unfair discrimination
against them, was the battle cry of the
convention of the National Woman's
party at Washington. If this prime OBJ
ject of the convention can be enforced
in state and nation, many grave injus-
tees to women, now permissible under
the country's varying laws, will be rem
edied. Distinctions against women in
property rights, jury duty, divorce, the
guardianship of children and in offenses
against sex morality will be removed.
Nobody can object justly to the cor
rcction of these age-long abuses In
stead, the world will be a fairer and
more wholesome place for everybody
Nor viii the final removal of these
abuses be as difficult at it would have
been few years ago, for the nation has
made long strides toward a better under
standing of woman's true place in life
and in human affairs.
If, in return, women find that '.ab-
solute equality means the yielding of
some of their ancient privileges-for in
stance having the husband held respon-
sible for the wife's debts no matter what
her sources of income or her activities
may be-they will meet the situation
calmly and without regret. knowing that
equal rights imply equal responsibilities.
and that those whose lives are governed
by justice have small need of special
privileges.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24

The New York World refuses to be
alarmed by the ''typhus scare" Admit
ting the appearance of this dreaded dis
ease in the nations chief port, the World
points out that typhus, with all its ugly
and mcnacing features, is Il disease that
is controlled with comparative case If
the proper measures are taken. 1t is
simply a question of eliminating bodily
vermin and sterilizing clothing.
Poland and Russia have made slow
progress in battling the plague inter
rally: but We hear no news of typhus
epidemics in Germany. because precau-
tionary measures are taken at the Dor
der. In fact, any state which functions
With Ua~sah'a efficiency con erect an i'm
pervious sanitary wall against the ty-
phus bacillus and can stamp it out with.
ou5 difficulty should an occasional case
develop. Other ailments, much more
dangerous, troublesome and prevalent
but with less horrifc names, we endure
calmly, being used to them
This last statement is we'll worth pom
dering. Nobody ever thinks of the "flu
with the same horror as typhus, and yet
there is no question that it has wrought
vastly more havoc in the world in the
last few years than typhus has, and is
a more redoubtable enemy of mankind
Even the Common cold" is a greater
enemy of the race, largely for the reason
that people refuse to take it seriously,
as they would do if its immediate effects
were more alarming. If people were
half as much concerned about colds as
they are about traditional plaques, -
they would save more lives and more hui
man efficiency every year than are sac
rifced by typhus. bubonic plague. and
all the 'horrific' epidemics together.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24
c. V. SHOPS LAY OFF 500.
Shutdown at St. Adams Plant to Go Into
Effect Monday.

ST. ALBANS, Feb. 24.-Under an or
der made public yesterday by the Central
Vermont Railway company the shops in
this city, including all the mechanical and
wood working departments. will be shut
down for an Indefinite period beginning
next Monday. This method 81 retrench-
ment is made necessary by the financial
situation in which the Central Vermont
in common with other New England roads
finds itself and was decided upon as best
after careful consideration Of conditions.
1t is not known at this time how long the
shops will be closed. as it depends entirely
on business conditions of the country.
The shutdown will affect 500 employees.
This is the second time within three
months the shops have been closed. The
first time the men were all laid off for one
week.
Other concerns in this city have also
been affected by the adverse business con-
ditiOns. Shops of the Foundry Manufac-
turing company have been closed for some
time and the Willard Manufacturing COM
pany has been on a four-day -a-week sched-
ule all winter until this week when it in
creased the schedule another, day.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24
SAGE TEA BEAUTIES
AND DARKENS HAIR
Dent Stay Gray! Sage Tea and Sui.
pilur Darkcns Hair So Naturally
That Nobody Can Tell.

You can turn gray. faded hair beauti-
fully dark and lnstrous almost over night
if you'll get a bottle of ''Wyeth's Sage and
Sulphur Compound at any drug store.
Millions of bottles of this old famous
Sage Tea Recipe, improved by the addi-
ton of other ingredients, are sold an
nually, says well-known druggist here,
because it darkens the hair so naturally
and evenly that no one can tell it has
been applied.
Those whose hair is turning gray or
becoming faded have a surprise awaiting
them, because after one or two applica-
tons the gray hair vanishes and your
locks become luxuriantly dark and beauti-
full.
This is the age of youth. Gray haired.
unattractive folks aren't wanted around,
so get busy with Wyeth's Sage and Sui
phur Compound tonight and you'll be de-
lighted with your dark, handsome hair
and your youthful appearance within a
few days.-Adv.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24
Little Benny's
Note Book
xuE - rrr pApr
REN Dy LEE PAPE.

HISTERY
Lots of things Fave happened
Since the verdi started yeers ago.
And the principle reason we know
they did
Is because history tells us so.
O Jonah was a man in the bible
Who was swallowed by a vale
But the vale got nerviss and cawfrcd
him back
50 he lived to tell the tale.
O ColumbiSs discovered America,
\ famous thing to do.
But his picture is all that's left of
him,
Because be did it in 1892.
O Alexander the Crate was a genrel
Who licked everybody in site.
And il he was living now he could
do it agen.
SO its a coed thing he amt, for he
mite.
Q Napoleon was little fello,
Jest taking him by his size.
But the people that Judged him bv
his length
Were doomed to mulch serprizc.
So let US study history
And Tern about the past,
For tho we are now in the present
Well be that way ourselves at last
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24
NO REsT-No PEACE

There s no peace and little rest for
the one who suffers from bad back,
and distressing urinary disorders
Brattleboro people recommend Doan s
Kidney Pills. Ask your neighbor! Be
guided by their experience.
Mrs. Fl. J. Allen, 81 Canal ST., Brat
tleboro, says: ''Prior to using Doan g
Kidney Pills | suffered for months with
dull, nagging baekaches and distress
ing pains through my kidneys. My
back ached and panied so / couldn t
rest nights and mornings could hardly
get around, to attend to my household
duties. When STOPPING or lifting, sharp
pains would catch me and 1 could
hardly straighten up. There was an an
noyance from the too frequent action
of my kidneys. ] procured Doan s Kid
ney Pills and after using two boxes
the backaches and pains disappeared.
haven t had any annoyance from the
kidneys since. - Statement given
September 90, 1905
On June Z, 1920, Mrs. Allen said:
''My opinion of Doan g Kidney Pills
is as high today as it was when / first
used them. / haven't had to use
Doan' for the last few years as they
have made my cure a permanent one.
gladly renew my former statement. I"
60c, at all dealers. Foster Milburn
Co., Mfrs, Buffalo, y. Y-Adv.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24
The ruth About
Eczema and Piles

Thousands and thousands of peapie, says
Peterson of Buffalo. are learning every week
that one 3s-sent box of Petersons Ointment
viii abolish eczema and Danish piles, and the
grateful letters ! receive every day are worth
more to me than money.
Il had eczema for many years on my head
and could not get anything to stop the agony.
you many thanks for the good il has done me.
There isn't blotch on my head now and I
couldn't help but thank Peterson. for the cure
is great" Miss Mary Hill, 40 Third Avenue,
Pittsburg, Pa.
IL hvae had itching piles for IS years and
Peterson's is the only ointment that relieves
me, besides the piles seem TO have gone" A.
B. Ruger, ifU Washington Avenue, Racine,
Wis
Use Pcterson's Ointment for old sores. salt
rheun, chahng and all skin diseases. Drug
gists recommend it. Mail orders filled by
Peterson Ointment Co.. Inc. Buffalo, N. Y.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24

approved by the president only three per
cent of the number of persons of any ma
tionality in the United States at the time
of the 1910 census will be permitted to
enter the country during the next year.
This would cut the number for the most
numerous nationality to approximate,
would restrict the Italians to ap-
proximately 10000. When it is
taken into consideration that as
many as that number of Italians have
come into the United States in a single
month it is easy to see what rather drastic
restrictions are set up under the Dilling-
ham bill. 1t ought to be said. however
that the original Dillingham; bill placed
the number of incomers at five per cent of
the total foreign population rather than
three per cent.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24

The unusual warmth and OpenesS of
the winter has brought many birds from
the south much earlier than usual aand
now their food supplies have been COW
cred by the heavy SHOWS. If you are a
friend of the robins, bluebirds, tree
Sparrows. etc. scatter a few crumbs,
seeds or other food-not forgetting the
grit they must have-for these little
friends who have made the mistake of
trying 70 open their summer homes too
early.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24
TO THE SUBSCRIBERS.

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efficient service in the delivery of the paper
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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. 1t is only by this
method that the publisher can secure the de-
sired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24
Today's lAnniversaries.

was burned by Morgan S
buccaneers
1S10-Henry Cavendish. the English
chemist who was the first to dis
cover the distinctive properties of
hydrogen gas, died in London.
Born at Nice in 1871.
1S15-Robert Fulton, builder of the
first successful steamboat. died IL
New York. Born in Lancaster
county. Pa, in 1865.
1S51-Lord John Russell resigned the
British premiership.
SG-Commercial Bank of South Aus
tralia suspended payment.
1S9G-Eva Booth was placed in com
mand of the Salvation army in the
United States.
Of the French Revo.
luton of 1913 celebrated in Paris
19O2-Prince Henry of Prussia, only
brother of the German emperor
was received bv President Roose
welt at the White house.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24
In The DAYS News.

celebrates his Episcopal silver jubilee
today. is bishop of Los Angeles and one
of the most widely known prelates of the
Protestant Episcopal church in the
United States A native of Schenectady,
n. Y, he received his +. 4. degree at
Williams college in 1870, and then en-
tered the General Theological seminary
in New York city. Following his grad
uation from the seminary in 1873 he
took orders as deacon of the Episcopal
church and the following year was or
dained priest by Bishop Alonzo Potter.
Until his election as bishop of Los Ange-
les, in 1896. he filed the rectorship OF
various churches in the East and North,
including Christ church. Detroit, where
he served from 1856 until 1896.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24
TosIay's Birthdays.

Rudolph GAM. celebrated pianist and
composer, born in Zurich, Switzerland,
A years ago today.
DR. William ~ Maddox, president of
Rockford college. born at Richmond, Va,
IS years ago today.
Ernest Perochon. recipient of the Con
court academy prize for the best French
novel of the year, born 36 years ago to-
day.
Bishop Ernest G. Richardson. of the
Methodist Episcopal church. born in st.
Vincent, West Indies, II years ago to-
day.
John II. (Honus) Wagner. one of the
most widely known of professional base
ball players, born at Carnegie, Pa, II
years ago today.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24
Today 5 Events

One week until the Inauguration of
President Harding.
One hundredth anniversary of the
death of the famous poet, John Keats.
Rt Rev. Joseph II. johnson, Episco-
pal bishop of Los Angeles. celebrates his
Episcopal silver jubilee today.
The RI Rev. William Walter Webb,
bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Mil
waukee, today celebrates the fifteenth
anniversary of lis conservation.
The American fraternal congress, rep
re pnting fraternal societies throughout
lie United States and Canada, viii be
gin its annual meeting in Chicago today
The new institute of Spain at Column
bia university is to be formally inaugur
ated today by Senior de Riano, the Span
ish ambassador to the United States.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24

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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24
Capri.

] wish you could have walked down
TO the Piccoa Marina with me yester-
day. 1t Is down one of those wonder
full roads hewn out of the side OF the
cliff. which one grows used to here.
and | came back up the old steps.
Such viewsi The sea In afternoon
light. the Faraglioni rocks below. so
often painted and photographed. the
splendid cliffs of Capri to right and
leftl james NJ Taylor tLet-
ters).
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24
Experiment with air.

A man wished 10 measure the force
that drives the sap upward in trees
and shrubs. He cut vine and tied
bladder over its end. In two hours
the bladder was greatly distenied and
inside of three hours II burst with a
piop. so great was the force thar
drives sap upward.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24

The house of representatives acted
wisely when it voted yesterday il favor
of the senate bill bringing water COM
panies under the jurisdiction of the pub
lie service commission. Judging from
newspaper accounts of the debate on the
bill Representative Barber had consider
able to do in bringing about favorable
action and The Rcformer is glad to give
him credit for it.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24
Preparedness.

One of our eminent and doubtless
reliable statisticians announces that
there is only one chance In 29.3s9 that
ones house will ever burD down and
yet we suppose lots of girls who
would be mnch more comfortable 10
outing fnannei nightgowns are wear
Ing their crepe de chine ones regularly.
on the possibility that II mtght.-Ohio
State Journal.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24
The Dillingham; Immigration Bill.
BARRE Times. J

The Dillingham; immigration bill
tnamed after the Vermont senatorl does
not exactly build a fence around the
United States, but it does go far. in its
amended form. toward placing barrier
against the incoming of foreigners. In
senate, is concurred i'm by the house and
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24

\ New York milliner has designed a
new hat called the ''highwayman," cop
led from a bandits cap. That's moth
ing. Husbands have known for cen
turtles that women's hats were hold-ups
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24

In Vermont a snow storm like the re
cent one meant more sleighing, more
winter sports and another chance for the
Iumberman. In New York city it meant
the work of 1900 men to clear the snow
from the streets at cost of $1,OO0,000
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24

The Nebraska farm bureau estimates
the farm woman as worth $4,000 year,
considered from the standpoint of wages.
Well, rubies are down a little just now.
Her price is far above rubies.''
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24

IF Henry FOrd's machine to make milk
behaves anything like his car, it ought to
be easy for Henry to serve milk shakes
to all Observation-Disclosures Herald.
Would you expect him to equip it with
shake abSorbers too?
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24

A movement has been started in Wash
ington to have Wednesday, March 8, OBJ
served as a national fish day. There
will be nothing about it to, hinder the
observance in Vermont of April II in the
usual way.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24

4 Connecticut court has ruled that
employers must pay for dentistry. in
Guiding bridge work, when it is neces-
STATED by an accident to the employe
while on duty. There's a law with
teeth in it.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24

Less than half of the towns in Wind
ham county last year voted to take ad-
vantage of section 1891 of the general
laws, which provides that the state will
duplicate up to $1,000 any money that
a town appronriates for highway pur-
poses in excess of the 20 per cent re
quired by law. The result was that con-
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24
One Wear Aeo Today.

Matthias Erzberger, German ministe
of finance. resigned.
A general strike of the Buildin:
Trades was called in New York.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24

Nice-President Marshall is said to be
booked for year and half as a Chau-
.auqua speaker, which will be almost
as exciting as his official career has been.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24

Capital punishment, as we take it, is
having to live in Notwithstanding
ton News.
There always seems to be the usual
number willing to suffer it every two
years
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24
Rheuma for Uric Acid

Rheuma, physicians prescription for
rheumatism, acts on the kidneys and helms
force the uric acid from swollen Joints
and other lodging places, says w r. Root.
few days use will convince the most
skeptieal.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24
A Similarity.

tAIontpeIIer Argus.)
To repeal the primary after granting
the vote to women is a good deal like
handing the fair sex a lemon
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24

There could be no greater tribute to
Mr.. Harding's optimism than his hope
that he could induce this congress to
work.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-24
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