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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-29
Use the Bush Scythe.
(Rutland Herald. }

Cut away the bushes from the roadsides
and it will be discovered that the hazard
of driving a motor car or a horse on Yer
mont highways has been materially re-
duced. Because the local road commits
sioner~in a town Is able to travel the
roads in his jurisdiction blindfolded and
knows where the turns and curves are
does not imply that a stranger can do the
same.
q Bushes. allowed to grow into the wheel
tracks and to obscure the ends of culverts,
to brush the tops of passing vehicles, are
a menace to those who travel in motor
cars, the prevailing mode of travel.
, Our Bristol contemporary, the Herald,
says -
Wonder if Governor Hartness, as one
of the states bodybuilding department
heads during his travels about the state
ever notices that there is an over-abun-
dance of bushes along theEroads and that
in many sections it would appear as
though the town authorities were making
an attempt to cultivate such growth of
shrubbery on the curves"
Out of the state readers of the Addison
county paper will, perhaps, ask what
has the governor got to do with bush-cut-
ting operations?' but home folks know
that the executive is a member of the
staff personnel of Nermont's road build
ing and maintenance department and as
such his attention may be called to delin-
qUencies.
If the Bristol editor is phrasing the
paragraph in the form of an interrogation
of Governor Hardness he is simply going
to headquarters for Information as to the
policy of the state highway department
concerning the matter of bush-cutting, and
possibly desires to know whether the
plan of progress" includes the trifiing de
tail of making the highways less obscure
to those not intimately acquainted with
Vermont roads.
\ Herald representative in a very re-
cent trip south from Rutland noted scores
of instances where bushes growing close
to the roadway on dangerous curves made
it extremely hazardous to drive a motor
car. The same condition was found on a
trip east from the city as we'll as north
west toward Lake Champlain.
Ask the tourist what he thinks about
our roads and he will speak well of them
in the main but the experienced motor
car driver, who makes long tours. will tell
you that we have too many bushes at
points on our high roads, especially at
bad turns.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-29

set giggling and making eyes" until it
was time for the singing master to call
the gathering to order. The sopranos, al
tos. tenors and bases separated into
groups and found their respective seats,
produced singing books and settled down
to business. The mysteries of staff, clef.
signature, sharps and flats, sol, do and
do re mi were explained and interspersed
with exercises and vocal gymnastics FL
nally books were opened at Il real tune.'
a hymn. anthem or elee, aud IN the ac-
of an E~tey reed organ. at
which was. seated the bet player in
town, everybo sang his loudest and
best Many a fine singer of those days
got his or her start at the old-fashioned
singing school. There is always a feeling
of good fellowship where a body of people
sing together and Secretary Wallace is
wise in his desire to 81, revive community
singing in some form if not in the old
time style.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-29
Cooperative Marketing.
est. Adams Messenger. J

Over 500 Vermont farmers have in
formed the American Farm Bureau fed
GRAFTON that they favor enabling legisla-
ton for cooperative marketing of farm
produce, while only % expressed them
selves in opposition. 1t is said that the
farmers answering the referendum CON
stitute cross. section of the agriculturists
of the state. so that it may be said that
Vermont believes in cooperative merchan-
dizing.
This meaHs. if. it is true, that our
farmers recognize the necessity of chang
ing the old method of individual dealing.
which is one of the very weakest of all the
links in the agricultural chain. Everyone
who stops to consider the economics in
volved knows that the individual farmer
is at the mercy of the shrewd buyer who
knows the market and who is not avcrse
to taking advantage of the producer
But why wait for enabling legislation
by either the federal or state legislature?
Such legislation is hardly necessary. The
way is open for cooperative action today
1t isn't the lack of laws that is holding
up this much-needed Development The
lack of initiative is the reason why affairs
drift along in the same old way
Seemingly Vermont farmers by an over
whelming majority are in favor Of get
ting together for the sales Of their COM
modities. If they really are of this mind
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-29
Helping the "COlyumists."
CRutland NpwS-l

For "eolyumists'' the typographical
error and the country correspondent have
been rich fields. The late '.B. L. L." SO
well known throughout the country for his
column and who first gained his news
paper experience in Montpelier, got his
ideas in this way. Caption and Com
mentary'' in the Brattleboro RefOrmer has
CLEANED a harvest of interesting clippings
in this way and has been extremely well
conducted.
In The News Wednesday a slug
which should have been thrown away was
inserted in head in place of the proper
line. We challenge the state to find a
more inappropriate 1--WE hope) head than
this: Ambulance Company Sent to
Rendering Plant"
The only alibi is that it happens in all
papers, in all languages, in all cities
big or little But a Chinese prOof-reader
must have. a hard time.
For personal interest in the news item
and originality, in a sense, the keg of
home brew is awarded to the country
correspondent. For real humOr, as we'll
as neighborhood gossip, the country cor
espondent-unhamper by a city edi-
tor-has a style of his own, particularly
when his stuff is sent in haste, with little
or no editing, to the composing room in
time to get in the paper.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-29

owners can continue their journey with
out much trouble or additional expense.
Landed, il would cost more to move them,
at least double the expense, perhaps
more.
1t would have been the wise thing for
the strikers to have encouraged the land
ing of those logs right at Bellows Falls.
Then the situation would have been much
more embarrassing to the paper company,
for instead of merely opening the boom
and letting the logs down river. the com
pany would have had to pitch them all
back into the Connecticut lose the money
paid for removing them and pay new
money to get them out again down stream.
The company wasn't in so much of a hole
while the logs were in the river; it would
have been a different story had they been
removed.
1t is almost childish to waste ink and
paper making such a simple point. But
simple as it is did it occur to the union
leaders at Bellows Falls? Not at all.
They didn't stop to size up the situation.
They wanted to strike at something, and
so they struck blindly, with the result
that the blow hurts them infinitely more
than it hurts the company, because the
company will use the logs somewhere else
and get its money out of them. while the
/ Bellows Falls strikers and business men
will never see a single penny out of them
4
Nothing could be- more stupid. What
explanation the leaders at Bellows Falls
can make to those who have trusted them
is more than The Messenger can under
stand. OF course. no adequate explana-
tiOn can be made The facts are too stub
| born to be argued away. The logs are
gone. The work they represent will never
be performed in Bellows Falls. Obviously
labor has been buncombed by those it
trusted. 1t is a pity. but it is q truth
that cannot be gainsaid. And so too
: often is labor penalized by itself in all
parts of the country through blind lead
ership. often of the absentee type 1t is
n very tangible lesson down at Bellows
Falls. one which ought never to be forgot
ten there and which might we'll be studied
with profit elsewhere. The experiment
has gone through the laboratory. 1t is
possible to reach conclusions from the
actions and reactions. The conclusion is
that labor needs more than anything else
under the sun to test the quality of its
leadership and to insist that it entrusts its
| case. its future. only to men of sound
sense and good Judgment
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-29
BRINGS HEALTH
AND HAPPINESS
Burlington Woman Says
She Got New Life and
Energy from Every
Dose of Tanlac

Il wasn't sick exactly, but l needed
something to build me up and Tanlac
has done that very thing" said Miss
Lillian Atwood 43S Colchester Ave,
Burlington. Vt
For over year I suffered from indi-
gestion and headaches and lost strength
steadily. l had terrible feeling of
WEAKNESS all the time. too, and would
sometimes give out and take to my bed
before the day was half gone. [ was
so nervous and miserable that | never
knew what it was to get a good night 5
sleep.
: 4 seemed to get new life and energy
from the very first dose of Tanlac and
it has entirely relieved me of indiges-
ton. In fact it has brought me health
and happiness. and there will never come
a time when ! win not be glad to tell
about the wonderful change it made in
my condition. II certainly is Splcn-
did medicine"
500 Tanlac is sold in Brattlcboro by the
BrattlebOro Drug. Co.-Adyertisement.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-29
Little Benny's
Note Book
BY LEE PAPE.

Me and pop was eating brekfst this
morning. pop reeding the paper and eat
ing at the same time and me jest eating
and asking pop different questions about
different SubjcckS. saying, Hay pop, do
YOU think a grass hopper could jump 80
times as far if it was 30 times as big?
II mite and it mite not, that's the neer-
est / can come to it, and now let me re
mind you agen that Id like to reed my
paper, sed pop.
Being about the 9th time he had re-
minded me, me thinking, l CESS l better
not ask him enything elts.
Wich Jest then | taisted my egg and il
taiStcd like egg that mite of taisted all
rite once but taists fearSe now, and l
sed, G wiz, hay pop.
Stop. quit. lay off. wat did l jest tell
you? Eat your egg. sed pop.
Me thinking, He thinks l was going to
ask him another question. And | started
to tell him | wasent, saying. But hay;
pop. and pop Sed. No hays about it, now
do your rare but bewtifll imitation of a
def and dunn clam. Eat your egg.
WITCH | started to keep on doing. taiSt-
ing even fearSer than it did Wen l dident
iXpect it to taiSt that way. and pop opened
his and taisted it and then Smelt it, say
ing. Good mite, this egg could tell you
the story Of the food if it could tawk.
Meening how old it was, and he sed.
Benny, does your egg taist queer?
1t did, I've got it all ate now. sed.
Wat i'm heavens name did you wunt to
eat a bad egg for? sed pop, and l sed.
Well G. heck. pop. every time l started
to tell you about it you told me to eat it.
Well of all the stupid dunn ignorant
tricks | ever herd of that's the Stupidest
dummest and ignorantest, sed pop. And
he kepp on tawking mad at me till he fin
ished his brekfist. Proving sometimes you
make people madden by doing wat they tell
YOU than wat you would if you dident.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-29

I'm the old days. says Secretary of
Agriculture Wallace, music was an i'm
portant factor in rural community life.
Many of US remember the Old-fashioned
singing school. Community singing
should be revived generally. The town
ship music teacher should be working in
every community As Mr.. Wallace
says, the singing school is within the
memory of many of the older generation.
1t was a great promoter of neighborhood
sociability and brought out both old and
young. The classes met in school houses,
church vestrys or village halls and after
cold walks and rides, many Of them long
ones, people gathered around the old-time
chunk burning stoves exchanging neigh
borly greetings and gossip, the younger
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-29
Today S Events

The Most Rev. Sebastian G.. Mess
mer, archbishop of Milwaukee, enters
upon his 10Th year today.
Winnipeg is to be the meeting place
today of the annual convention of the
Canadian brotherhood of Railway En-
ployes.
The annual Ohio state fair will get
under way at Columbus today and the
Wisconsin state fair will be opened at
Milwaukee.
The special meeting of the council of
the league of nations, to take up the
question of Upper Silesia, is to open to-
day at Geneva.
All parts of the British empire will
be represented in Montreal today at the
meeting of the British Society of Chem
zeal Industry.
Today begins a weeks festival and
celebration in honor of the golden ami
verSary of the founding of Asbury Park
by the late James A. Bradley. s.
The Rt. Rev. John Edward Gum,
bishop of the Catholic diocese of
Natchez, celebrates the 10th anniVer-
sary of his conservation today.
Two thousand amateur radio oper-
atOrs are expected in Chicago today to
attend the first national convention of
the American Radio Relay league.
Governor Carey has called a confer
cnce of county attorneys of Wyoming
to meet at Cheyenne today to plan an
organized campaign against bootleggers.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-29
In the Days News.

Col. William \. Haskell, who has been
selected to supervise the famine relief
work of the American relief administra-
ton in Russia, halls from Albany, n. Y.
His appointment to direct the aIl-impor-
tant work OF succoring the starving Rus
record he made while engaged in similar
work in Armenia. Col. Haskell was APP
pointed high commissioner of England,
France. Italy and the United States to
Armenia by the peace conference in 1919.
At the same time. on the suggestion of
Herbert Hoover. he Was placed in charge
of American relief activities in Trans
caucasia and Russian Armenia, and was
made director of the Near East relief for
the Caucasus. In July of last year Col.
Haskell resigned his position as high
commissioner. after receiving the praise
IF the allied nations for the manner in
which he had performed his duties.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-29

The slang word, "spizzerinktum" has
been in use long enough so that the pub
fishers of Websters dictionaries have
looked into its meaning and origin. so
far as we are able to judge" says this au-
thority. "spizzerinktum' appears to mean
vim. vigor. determination and Will to sue
coed. ~ word which is shorter to write,
easier to speak and which means practi-
caIly the same thing is pep"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-29
Decide Tor Yourself

Don't allow tina. slight eye strain you
experience when reading, to become Sc
rious and permanent. Let us examine
your eyes and determine whether or not
you need glasses. Our advice carries the
authority of long experience. Why no
consult us at once and avoid possibI
serious consequences.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-29

Vermont has suddenly acquired a new
lake a - acres area in Rutland county
by the closing of the gates of a dam
which has been under construction for
the -1os-st~yeaf> by~a Rutland manufactar-
ing company. The stream in which the
dam is built is said to be we'll stocked
with native brook trout as well as the
rainbow variety so the new reservoir of
fers great fishing possibilities as well as
boating and bathing.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-29
TO THE SUBSCRIBERS,

It 10 the aim of the management 70 seeure
efficient service in the delivery Of the paper
each night, and it soiicits the cooperation OF
subscribers 10 that end. Prompt reports should
be given of each failure 20 receive the paper
on he 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 can secure the de-
sired aerEice.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-29
TOday'S Birthdays.

Maurice Maeterlinck, famous Belgian
poet and dramatic author, born at Client,
- years ago today.
RI. Hon, Andrew Fisher, former prime
minister of Australia, born in Scotland,
- years ago today.
Byron 2. Harrison. United States SEN
ator from Mississippi. born at Crystal
Springs. Miss. 40 years ago today.
Charles J. Glidden, one of the first
makers of automobiles in America. born
at Lowell. Mass, 81 years ago today.
Rev Charles +. Jefferson, pastor of
the Broadway Tabernacle, New York
city. bern at Cambridge, O., 81 years ago
today.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-29
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 application.
Classified adVertisemcnts-Five cents q line
first insertion with 50 per cent discount for
copy. Minimum charge % cents. Caah with
order.
Reading Notices-Twenty cents per line first
subsequent insertion without change of copy.
Reading notices are published at foot Of local
items,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-29
Watch the BOnfireS.
Barre Times.l

We read now and then of children be-
ing burned to death while playing about
bGnfres. Such a thing ought never to be
possible, for b0nfireS never should be left
unguarded when children are around, if il
impossible to keep the. children away. The
responsibility rests on the elders.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-29
Census of Brain Cells.

It is thought that the nerve cells in
the brain of a human being number
something like 200,00o,000. Their
ramifylng rootlets connect them one
with another, and send out branches
which extend to the most remote por-
lions of the physical anatomy.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-29
Improve Your Looks

More phosphate if YOU want your com
plcxion to clear, eyes a. brighten. and kin
to become soft and smooth. Thin, nerve
exhausted people grow strong on Bitro-
Phosphate and the BrattlebOro Drug
Company guarantees it.-Advertisement
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-29
4 Prediction.

burlington Free preSS)
The rousing reception given Col. +. W.
Gibson on his return to Brattleboro from
Camp DevenS shows the high esteem in
which he is held where he is best known.
We predict the First Regiment of the Yer
mont National Guard will reach a high
state of efficiency with due credit to the
state and all concerned under the leader
ship of Colonel Gibson.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-29

they should act at once and on their own
initiative. The fruit growers of the west
ern states, notably California, have not
waited for additional federal assistance
but have built up monster cooperative
organizations which have meant millions
upon millions of dollars to the members.
No law will save the Vermont farmer.
He must act for himself in conjunction
with his fellows. And now is the time to
begin
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-29

Look to your laurels, ladies. In a re-
cent bread-making contest at a county
fair in Illinois. in which A. women took
part a mere tired business man. of
Oh cago won the prize.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-29

When you come to think of it, perhaps
the bobbed hair and ear puffs of the girls
of today are not any more extraordinary
than the way the men fixed their hair in
George Washingtons time.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-29
Tcday's Anniversaries.

i7S0-Richard Rush. the first attorney
general of the United States to
hold a place in the cabinet, born
in Philadelphia. Died there July
so, 1859.
1S29-Patrick A. Feehan, Catholic arch
bishop of Chicago, born in Ireland.
Died in Chicago July II, 1902.
1St2-Queen Victoria left London to
make her first visit to Scotland.
lS61-The body of Gen, Lyon. killed in
the battle of Wilson's Greek, was
received in Cincinnati with mill
tary hOnors.
1S6j-John Brough. governor of Ohio
during the latter part of the Civil
war. died in Cleveland. Born at
Marietta, O.. Sept. II, 1911.
1S71-The ''Polaris" reached the far
thest point north.
1S90-The new Science and Art Museum
in Dublin was formally opened by
the lord lieutenant of ireland.
1919-Governors of numerous states
pledged aid to President Wilson
in high price war.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-29
Member Of The Aaroetsted Press.

The Associated Press Is exclusively en-
titled to the use for publication of all pews
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, 1921-08-29

of course mother loves her children
bu. oh. you public school
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-29
One Year Ago Today.

Street railway traffic in Brooklyn tied
up by strike.
The island of Malta was damaged by
an earthquake.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-29
DISARMAMENT AND ROADS.

MONDAY. AUGUST %, 1921.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-29
CHICKEN TARTs.

in order welben
once Of
of
mil chicken heated in gravy. Bake
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-02-20
Nothing Heard of What Legislature
VIII Do-I'cw Old Men Left
Who Wore Giny.

4" IN" Editor OF The Times Dispa,ch.
Although our Legislature will
ho' meet Tor year. we are honrir.
VI millions that they will spend a.,
'"""S ana millions for schools. ana
'"'ie 'S "ot one word Of what tbry
VIII 40 Tor those few old men Inn,
"fe icit VINO wore the gray, 4, d.
ulSSrace to the State OF Vir,-i,,f,
'h'' We do not give these old mon
enough I" keep them In cas-. ana
comfort the remaining few y,ar,, ,b.,
are LEFT TO them.
Virginia Is no longer :" name
fltt5 -SiN years ago snc mcltrl T.
,hutch bells tor cannon to defend H..
mr,...,,. 10y not 40 IL again If IL be-
mnn,,'NNHrE W." hear fathers ~ mi.
ntii ana mat ono. but instead of b:y
inS father To this hill IT ,h. ,.h'i
",nntr ana itrusc by rising vote.
crane Of 81 and 60. enough Ia ~,
on Tor IN" rest OF their l,vns .,,,
wen ~ the! do nothing else tn.lr
49,, "' .,.'.I r.I'" would nave been Justified
III sending them there
Mon of the Legislature. sons ana
-''U"N"Ha ~ th""" men. @top ono mo-
mem Inu THINK what th"s" old mon
nay" dom" for you, Even i'm G,Fa,,
th"y made II so you can hold NJ, .' 80
h'nhH among men without shame
Men and women of Virginia. ~ vo
i,,'nly want our veterans TO have a
n.y." comfort In their last years
which know wc do. lct each III,
"h,rE ono OF u" write to our Senators
ana AN. K.prcS"nthtivos "slCipe ana do,
hiihH'hE that they vote Tor a nm
EIN'nE them not less than 1900 a yc,r
ipr total disability and $3.50 FOR U,r.
l'"I hISaniltt! is there II man N, irn
S"uht. or IiOu." who thinks bn ,,n,.i
~ 'ehhnr"h Tor voting Tor tucn a bilI1
We knows well lac would not. ha,.
nt''t h""ih man or woman vet
WI" was not willing to stand r.r
any tax ihnt would give these oII
htfoe" little comfort, ana am
OYER forty gears old
Gentlemen 81 tn" Legislature. when
YOU meet, for once. do YOUR ,tbnl,.
dntF. hni when You 80 HON" CARR.
win you th" urdyiur grntiiudo %.
"'rry right thinking man and woman
IN virginia. MARION y KEkE
i'"ndlcton. Va. Feb IL. 1921.