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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-01-28
WOULD ABOLISH OFFICE.

Madison, Wis. Jan. 28.-4A bill to
abolish the state board OF education
and concentrate educational activities
in the Office Of c. P. Cary, superintend-
ent of public institutions. has been
prepared and will be introduced in the
Wisconsin Legislature today or early
next week, 1t is said in assembly cir
cles.
Superintendent Cary, who plans to
be % candidate to succeed himself at
s the April election. is reported to be
the author of the measure. -
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-17
Today's Anniversaries.

ISO9-Napoleon issued a decree abol-
ishing the temporal authority OF
the pope.
lS2l-Charlotte H Sainton Dolby, cele-
brated actress and vocalist, born
in London. Died there, Feb. Is,
1885.
IS36-Nilliam Steinitz, chess champion
of the world, born at Prague, Bo-
hema Died in an insane asylum
i'll New York, Aug. u, 1900.
lS60-Republican convention at Chicago
adopted protective tariff plat
form.
ls7I-Silver ornaments in the churches
of Paris were seized by the com
mune.
IS74-Fouteen women temperance cru.
saders in Cincinnati arrested, anC
held a prayer meeting III the pc
lice station.
IsS8-Irish Catholic members of the
British parliament formally de
MED the right of the Holy See tc
interfere in Irish politics.
lS9I-Twenty-two blocks in the business
section of Muskegon, Mich, de
stroyed by fire.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-17
Little Benny's
Note Book
BY LEE PAPE.

/ was late for suppir agen today, being
the 4th time this week and pop being even
nader than the ferSt 3 times, saying,
Well, ware have you bin? Watts the big
Excuse? l Suppose YOU were unavoidably
detainedE
Yes sir. i sed.
How, if you win pardin me for being
so bold as to~inquire? sed pop.
Well in the ferst place there was some
men putting up a big sine all about the
circus. | sed.
And they needed your assistants. l sip
pose? sed pop.
No sir. but had to stay and watch
them, L sed.
O. see. sed pop, and l sed, Yes sir,
and in the 2nd place some man was being
arrested by policeman for being drunk
with his hat over his eyes.
And l Suppose you were needed as a
witness. sed pop.
No sir, but / had to stay there and
watch till the patrol Vaughn came, dident
/? i sed.
O. So you did, so you did, sed pop, eny-
thing elts to detain YOU? ....
Yes sir. l sed, a horse fell down.
With YOU under him? sed pop.
No sir, but q, gosh. pop. dident / half
to stand there and watch it?
Yes, and by the same line of logicll
you'll half to stand heer and watch US
finish suppir. sed pop.
WITCH | did, taking them a fearse long
vile, and then | ate mine all alone wen
everything was cold. being a good dpel
better than not eating it at all.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-17
GODS SECRETS.

Life and death are strange things. In
spite of science, God keeps his secrets.
\ man of 20, who had his youth re
ncwcd by the thyroid gland treatment,
and expected to live on indefinitely. was
found dead in his bed on the eve of the
day when he was to lecture on his res
toration. 1t is said his death was due
to heart failure.
When this man returned to his home
in London, after the operation is Paris,
his friends were amazed at his apparent
vigor. The professor who performed
the operation was to take photographs
of him performing incredible gymnastic
exercises. These were to be exhibited
widely to prove the soundness of the
theory. Now the man is dead. just as
any person of similar years might die,
peacefully in his sleep. of heart failure.
What is the answer? Perhaps the au-
topsy will show. Perhaps not. Was the
heart too old to withstand the demands
of the rejuvenated body? Beyond the or
binary measures to preserve the health.
is it all in Gods hands. anyway? And
now that he has actually entered eternal
life, what does this man think of his eff
forts to grasp its shadows here?
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-17
RULES AND STEERING WHEEL
Britain Decides to Ban Left Hand
Drive Automobiles from British Roads.

In England the rule of the road is the
opposite of the rule of the road in the
United States-keep to the left instead
OF Keep to the right. Consequently on
most British motor cars the steering
wheel Is custOmarily on the right hand
side: In 1920 the subject has been re-
ceIving considerable attention on the
part OF British authorities and the
british press in connection with public
safety, and in connection with the left
hand drive which is characteristic of a
good many of the makes of American
motor cars that have been imported in
to England.
1t Is true that a number of American
manufacturers have made a special ma
chine. equipped with right hand drive
tor the purpose of meeting the require
ments OF markets. where right hand
drive by reason of left hand traffic rules
has been substantially in demand On
the other hand a number of American
cars have been exported to the P~'tish
market with the customary left hand
drive. Prominence was given in Eng
land to a number of accidents that were
attributed to left hand drive. and as a
result the British ministry of transport
took Ip the question and made an in
vestigation The result was a decision
that the number of accidents due to left
hand drive is insufficient to ban the
left hand drive automobile from the
British The Nations Business.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-17
TUESDAY. MAY II. 1921.
THE TAPE-BOUND TRUCK.

Congressman Bland of Indiana COM
planned on the floor Of the house the other
day that he had been trying in vain for
several months to get light truck for
the Bureau of Mines. That bureau is a
branch of the United States government.
The government. he says, has thousands
of trucks of the kind desired, standing
idle, and admits it. The government also
admits the desirability of providing a
truck for the Bureau of Mines. But
there is some red tape or something in
the way. so that there is no power on
earth that can get one of these trucks
assigned to a station"
1t is the same old story of a red-tape
bureaucracy. repeated a thousand times
during the war and since. The govern
mental departments, supposedly organ
lied for efficient service, have grown so
unwieldy that so simple a matter as the
transfer of a bit of property from one
department or bureau to another is al
most impossible. Always there are prom
ises Of reformation, but little comes of
them.
a familiar and irritating bit of inefi-
cheney along this line is found in the
case of farmers bulletins issued by the
department of agriculture. Some of
these pamphlets are sold for five or 10
cents apiece The most convenient and
obvious way to forward qSch a small
sum is by enclosing stamps with the or
der But will the government accept its
own stamps? 1t will not. The citizen
desiring one of those pamphlets is obliged
to send a certified check or a registered
letter or a postal order for that nickel
or dime
It is impossible, apparently, for the
government of the United States to ar.
range so simple thing as the adjust
ment of accounts between the postofIicC
department on one hand and the depart
ment of agriculture or the government
printing Office on the other, and any crit.
icism is met with the polite but reprovinq
reminder that stamps are not money
Suppose a private business operated that
way!
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-17
WHAT DO CITIZENS WANT?

In one city which is having trouble
with its finances, and which faces a huge
deficit, a news writer asks this pertinent
question:
Which does the community want
most? Does it want fewer city physi-
clans and district nurses. less food and
dairy inspection, less service in the parks,
less regular collection of garbage, less
street cleaning or paving repair? Or
does it want fewer inspectors appointed
because of political services rather than
technical ability; fewer watchmen, fewer
jauitors, fewer political appointees of
all sorts who burden the pay roll with
out material advantages in the city's
welfare?"
No citizen, it is safe to say. will
answer this question offhand except in
favor of retaining the useful things,
those which regard the health and safety
of the city.
Yet the majority of citizens rule, in
that and other American municipalities,
and the political appointees are on the
pay roll, and may very likely stay there
when the nurses and garbage collectors
and treet-maintcnance men disappear.
Apparently what the majority of citi-
zens really want is not the welfare of
the city but their own freedom from be
ing bothered by taking any action about
their civic affairs. strong current of
public opinion can clean up any city gov
eminent and keep it cleaned up, thrifty.
useful and productive.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-17
BETTER ENGLISH YEAR.

A native American with a college di-
ploma and liking for good books spoke
to a foreign-born acquaintance of a play
which she characterized as terribly
good" The alien replied, Terribly
good? How can we foreigners ever learn
to use your language correctly when you
native Americans say things like that?
Let me give you a little hint about Amer
termination. Use your own language
correctly and honor your own institu-
tons and it will be an easier task to
make US from the old country do the
same"
Two better English weeks have now
been observed in this country, and Il
third probably win be celebrated next
fall. The purpose of setting aside one
week a year for paying particular at
tention to correct speech is not simply
to give teachers and pupils all over the
laud something extra to do. 1t is sup
posed to stimulate general interest in the
proper choice and use of words, and to
eliminate some of the common grammati-
cal errors in our national speech.
No doubt much good is done during the
week devoted to pointing out defects in
speech and emphasizing the correct
forms. More permanent good would be
done, however, if educated persons who
allow themselves to speak carelessly
would adopt for the other 81 weeks the
simple slogan, Better English The sd
week would then show real achievement
and would serve as a good time for max.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-17
STATE OF VERMONT.
WINDHANi COUNTY, SIS.

Upon consideration of the foregoing
affidavit and statement and upon applica-
tion of Forrest S. Stets0n, it is hereby
ordered that the deposition Of Frank
Worden, of Halifax. in the County Of
Windham. and State of Vermont. in per-
petual remembrance, be taken before me
at the residence of the said Frank WOrden
in Halifax, aforesaid. on the 23d day of
May. 1921, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon.
and that notice thereof be given to all per-
sons Interested in the matters stated in
such affidavit by publication Of the fore
going affidavit statement and application
in the Brattlehoro Daily Reformer. a
newspaper published in Brattleboro, in
the County of Windham. and State of Yer
mont. such publication to appear in said
paper on the following named days: On
May 3. 1921; May 10, 1921; and May
IL. 1921
Dated at Newfane in the County Of
Nindham. and State of Vermont, this ID
day of May 1921
(Signedl TYLER DE- GOODELI.
Judge Of Windham County Court.
5J-61- 81
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-17
\ Vermont Reading Circle.

When anchor ice begun to make.
And Johnny'S root struck up an ache,
And hens closed down to half-time eggs,
And boots felt cold around your legs,
And bitey winds commenced 10 blow,
And oldish folks was talking snow
And district school commenced TO keep,
And bears began to go to sleep,
And ma was through with coloring yarn
And all the stock was at the barn.;
Twas then that youngish folks took hold
To make the nights less long and cold;
The Study Club sprung into life
And met with Allen Wizards wife;
Al didn't want TO know no more,
He said. and Jest preferred the store
The Cirque Dramatique tried to see
If they could hire the yeStry free;
\ singing school subscription list
Was haucocked fast by every fist.
Then there was spelling bouts and bees,
And kitchen turks and farmers teas;
Our Ready Reading Circle, though,
Led all the others. that | know;
For years and years il stood the test
And Plato would have liked it BEST
There wasn't any rules or fee
And all was welcome as could be:
The only thing you had to do
Was read when you was called on to.
Though reading was our basic art
We sometimes had SapphO Hour
For girls who wrote with-ease and power !;
We had some three or four in town
That might have woye Apollo's crown:
The hired men glimpSed cultures lights
And conned their Whittier Sunday nights,
And Lucy LarcOhi's works was found
One day this side the burying ground.
We had paper every week
To polish off your fault or freak;
If folks was wild the littlest bit
They more than likely got hit,
And if you said per-ice for po
The edtreSS would let you know:
Your tongue Jest had to walk crack
Or ketch it in the Weekly Whack" /;
We couldn't slang as much. not we,
As Shoe, Fly there! don't bother me.
We always had a question, too.
And voted when the talk was through;
We started in where Darwin. dead
And Mill left eff, and went ahead;
Our arguers argued mighty strong
On what was right but might be wrong.
And once, to show that they was bright,
We gave a Clay and Webster Night,
\ college education found
Its match. BY Gum! when they was
round.
Most always old ledge Woods would cite
The Circle in for closing night;
We had a special programme then
And girls was lowed to see his den;
Lucille and Biniun-on-t he-Rhne
Was then produced and featured fine;
recollect that Binjun died
And that Lucille liked chicken fried.
And then the Jedge would bless us all
And everything was off till Fall.
DANIEL l.. CADY.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-17

The Reformer is on sale every evening by
the following news dealers:
Brattleboro, Brattleboro News Co., c. W.
Cleaveland, S. L. Purinton (Esteyville),
Brooks House Pharmacy, Aliens Depot News
stand, Gilbert J. -Pollica, 81 South Main St.
(Fort Drummer district.
West Brattleboro, J. L Stockwells
East Dummerst6n, NJ z. Brown.
Putney, N. G. Williams.
Newfane, n. NJ. Batchelder.
West ToWnshend, c. II. Grout.
South Londonderry, F. Z. Tyler.
South Vernon, Z. B. Buffum.
NorthfeId, Mass, Thompson Bros.
West Chesterfield, N. H, Mrs. w. Streeter
Hinsdale, N. H, w. H. Lyman.
Greenfield, Mass, Greenfield News Co
Greenfield, Mass, c. a. Hays.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-17
Today S Events

independence day of the Norwegians.
Greetings to His Majesty Alphonso
Mi, ming OF Spain, 80 years old to-
day.
Nine Curie is to be a guest of the
American Chemical society at a lunch
con in New York today.
At the biennial municipal election in
Denver today the voters will pass on
several proposed amendments to the
city charter.
The sixth annual meeting of the
World Alliance for International
Friendship Through the Churches and
a congress on the reduction OF arma-
ments will assemble in Chicago today
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-17
In The Days News.

T. Mont Reilly, President Harding, S
choice for the goveTnorship of Porto
Rico, is Kansas City business man
who has long taken an active interest
being a seeker of public Office He
claims to have organized the first "Roos-
evelt for President club in the United
states, and he also displayed his polit-
zeal foresight by declaring himself for
Harding long before the nominating con-
vention last year. Mr.. Reilly is 80 years
old and a native of Sedalia. Mo. At
one time he was engaged in the real
estate business in Fort Worth. Texas
but for the past twenty-five years. he
has resided in Kansas City, of which
city he was assistant postmaster some
years ago. lie is a lifelong RepubH.
can and is proud of the fact that one
of his family, Hamilton Gamble, was
the first Republican governor of Mis-
souri,.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-17
STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS,,
FRANKLIN COUNTY. IS.
STATE OF VERMONT.
WINDHAM COUNTY. SIS.

I. r. L. Fits of Brattleboro, in the
County of Windham, and State of Yer
mont state that | am an attorney adj
mitted to practice in the Supreme Court of
the State of Vermont, and that | am at
torney for Forrest :. Stetson of Green
field. Massachusetts. in the proceedings
now being taken in the Probate Court for
the District of Marlboro mentioned in the
foregoing affidavit: that upon the instruc-
tions given me by the said Forrest S.
Ststson, and upon the case laid before me
by the said Forrest s. Stetson and other
parties in interest therein there is good
ground for taking the testimony of Frank
Worden as set forth in said affidavit.
(Signed) Il. L. Fits.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-17
STATE OF VERMONT.
WINDHAAT COUNTY, IS.

To the HON. TYLER ID. GOODELL,
Judge of Windham County Court:
Upon the foregoing affidavit of Forrest
s. StetsOn. supported by the statement of
r. l.. Fits. his attorney. the said Forrest
:. Stetson applies for an order pursuant
to the statute to give notice of the time
and place for taking the deposition of
Frank Worden at Halifax, in the County
of Windham, and State of Vermont, As
provided by law, ip perpetual remem-
brance
Dated at Greenfield. in the County Of
Franklin. and State. of Massachusetts.
this Doth day of April. 1921.
(Signed) FORREST S. STETSON.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-17
Tnday's birthdays.

Her Highness the Duchess of Fife
Princess Arthur of Connaught,) born 80
years ago today.
His Majesty AIphonso NIL, king of
Spain. born in the royal palace at Ma
drid, 50 years ago today,
Rt. Rev. Michael +. FalIon, Catholic
bishop of London, Ont. born at Kings
ton, Ont, 81 years ago today.
Hon. McCallum Grant, lieutenant
governor of Nova Scotia, born in Hants
county, \. s., IS years ago today.
DR. John w. Abercrombie, state su-
perintendent of public instruction of Al
ALBANIA. boru in st. Clair county, Ala
IS years ago today.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-17

Mile. Collinere, the celebrated profess
slonal Wine faster of Rheims, is paid
regular retaining fee of Sl2, 800 a year bv
a wellSknown firm of wine growers and
shippers. and she is said to receive at
least as much more from her private
practice. She is easily first amongst
the followers of this curious profession
So unfailing is her trained Judgment
and so delicate her palate, that she can
to- irstantly by merely taking a spoon
full of wine i'm her mouth the particu-
lar vineyard in which were grown the
grapes 1t was made from, the year of
Its vintage, and all other particulars
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-17
TO TIE SUBSCRIBERS.

It Is the aim of the management TO secure
efficient service in the delivery of the papel
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, il
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. It is only by thii
method that the publisher can secure the de
sired serSice.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-17
Yafted Across the Slxn-

rs it true, Tom" asked the shade OF
Theodore Hook. that YOU supplied the
sculptor with the marble block for YOUR
own statuey"
Certainly not" replied the shade of
Hood. Had / done so he'd have been
sure to chisel me out of it.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-17
LEGAL NOTICES.
STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS,,
FRANKLIN COUNTY, IS.

i
I, FORREST S. STETSON. of Green
field County of Franklin, and State of
Massachusetts,, being duly sworn, depOse
and say:
That | reside in Greenfield aforesaid:
that | am enc of the legatees named in a
certain will of Laura Ann Niles, late of
Halifax in the County of Windham and
State of Vermont: that I am the executor
nominated and appointed in said will of
Laura Ann Niles: that the said will Of
Laura Ann Niles was accidentally de
stroyed by fire the day after her decease:
that | am a party TO proceeding now be-
ing taken in the Probate Court for the
District of Marlboro and State of Yer
mont, which Court has jurisdiction over
the estate of said Laura Ann Niles, and
which proceedings seek to establish such
will as the last viii and testament of said
Laura Ann Niles: that the testimony of
one, Frank Worden, of Halifax, afGre-
said, is material and necessary to estab-
fish the existence. execution and contents
of said Will; that said Frank WOrden
is adWAnced in age and of feeble physical
condition.
l further say that I am unable to name
all the persons expected to become parties
in such controversy and proceedings rela-
tive to establishing and prGbating said
will of Laura Ann Niles; that at least
one of the persons who might become
party to such proceedings or interested
therein is a nonresident of the State of
Vermont, and is now domicilcd at Pitts
field in the State of Massachusetts, but
THAT / am unable to state with certainty
the names and addresses. of all persons
who might become interested in such pro-
ceedings as heirs-at-law of said Laura
Ann Niles.
(SigneD FORREST S. STETSON.
STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS,,
] FRANKLIN COUNTY, SIS.
At Greenfield. in said County. this Doth
I day of April. 1921. personally appeared
FORREST s. STETSON, and made oath
Scribed.~.--
| Before me,
MAURICE J. LEVY.
Notary Public.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-17

The Bolsheviki began an invasion of
Persia.
Crown forces in ireland increased by
, 600 to protect the police.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-17

"Aunt Dollie" Spencer has served
the town of Milford, O., as probation
officer police chief. and mayor, and she
says that if the town had an official
dog-catcher, that position also would
probably have been wished . on her.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-17
B0nehead!

Whats your play about?" asked the
manager.
Its one of these triangle plays"
Triangle? We don't put on musical
comedies. Boston Transcript
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-17
Autos on the Brain.

What was the excitement down the
street,"
oh. a man in a reverie ran into a
woman in a tantrum "
Were the machines badly damaged -
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-17

Sea lions are among the most intelIi-
gent of performing animals. They learn
their tricks easily and seem fond of GO
ing through their performance again and
again.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-17
TO ADVERTISERS,

Transient advertising-Run of paper. so cents
an inch for first insertion, 80 cents an inch
for each subsequent insertion. Limited space
on first page at double rates.
Space rates on application.
Classified advertisements-five cents line
first insertion with so per cent discount for
each subsequent insertion without change OF
order.
Reading Notices-Twenty cePts per line first
insertion with so per cent discount tor each
subsequent insertion without change of copy.
Reading notices are published at foot of local
items.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-17
Member Of The Associated Press.

! The Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for publication of all news
dispatches credited to it and not otherwise
credited in this paper and also the local news
published herein.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-17

a bitter-ender is a man who thinks
that foreign relations are a home in
dustry.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-17

Mrs Marie. Grace Gallahen. promi-
nent woman lawyer or Cleveland, has
aafs fof Rd 2tS3b04 a & Gs 3h
next election.