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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-07

EDUCATION WORK
World Wide Congress of
Educational Workers
Recommended
INSTRUMENTATION
IN TEXT BOOKS

Europeans DO Not Understand Ameri-
cans and American Republics
Are Grossly Misrepresented - Ideals
Should Be Unified.
DIES MONIES. Ia. July RECON-
incubation that an international congress
of education be held in 1923 under the
auspices of the National Education assoc
citation was made here today to the assoc
cations annual convention by its com
mittee on foreign relations. The commit
tee report was presented by Augustus o:
Thomas, state superintendent of public
instruction of Maine.
All nations that desire to develop the
spirit of universal education and pcrpet-
ual peace should be invited to participate,
the committee advised.
1t reported that in its first year of ex-
lstence it found manifest growing de-
sire for closer relationship among the
nations"
The main purposes of the several agen-
cies now active in the field of international
policies. the committee added, are to Gre
ate 4 better understanding. to develop a
greater sympathy among neighborS. to
unity ideals of a general or universal ma
ture, to promote universal education
among free peoples, and to correct some
false notions which the people of one ma
ton sometimes acquire of another.
For example, the committee reported
some of the textbooks used in our own
country in speaking of our Latin-Ameri
can republics make the statement that tho
inhabitants of a certain country ar,
mainly Indians with no emphasis upor
the fact that there is a considerable body
lof highly cultured white persons living
| in that country.
1T is true also that the ideas Of
American life often set up in Europe d,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-07

WANTED-Horses to pasture near
town. woven wire fencing, part moving:
Tel 617-M. 29-IL
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-07

WANTED-Girl for general house
work in family of two. Mrs. Robert l..
Fits, Z Chaplin st. 1O0-tt
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-07
SOUTH VERNON.
A Card.

May ] as President of the South Yer
non Loyal Workers Society express
through your paper our appreciation of
the help received from those without our
society in the entertainment of the largest
convention ever held by the General East
ern Young Peoples Society of LOYAL
Workers! We would especially thank
those who so willingly opened their homes
for entertainment and those who assisted
in furnishing food at the hall
ERNEST w. DUNKLEE.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-07

WANTED-At once, laundress at Mel.
rose hospital. 1o3-lF
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-07
SOUTH LONDONDERRY.

The Slade school closed June 81 with
a picnic at the teachers home Lyla
Slade and Gladys prouty were perfect in
attendance during the spring term. Ray
mond and Aileen Morse of the second
grade deserve mention for excellent work
and good attendance fer the whole year.
Others who were absent less than five
days in the year are Jeanne and Alfred
Prouty and Fay Morse. Olive NJ. Prouty
is teacher. .
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-07

WANTED-Married man. one with
family preferred. who understands the
care of cattle and Empire milking ma
chine. Only good man, willing to work.
need apply Charles d. Record, Manager.
'Brookland," Walpole, \. H. Tel 21-:i.
109-111
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-07

WANTED-Young woman at summer
camp u miles from BrattlebOrO to live
with family of FIVE and help with general
homework no washing. Apply Newfane
Tel. 25-2. Oft
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-07
SPECIAL NOTICES

EXPRESSING. jobbing and long dis
tance moving. .. J. Underwood. Tel.
:}56-M. 109-120%
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-07
HOUSEHOLD GOODS
AT
AUCTION
I will sell all my household goods at
Public Auction on
Saturday, July 9, 1921
At 1 O'clock II. NJ. Sharp
Sale at 10 Myrtle Street,
BrattlebOrO. Vermont

Buffet, dining table and chairs, china
cabinet, Crawford range. gas plate,
chunk stove, refrigerator, ) art squares,
rugs, sewing machine. rockers, cham
Der suits. cot bed. stands, tables. odd
chairs, spring and mattress, quilts
blankets. sheets, hall rack with glass
looking glasses. pictures, books, lamps,
new set of dishes. table linen. odd fishes
glassware, silver knives and forks
spoons. aluminium, tin and all kitchen
utensils, washing machine, tubs, boilers
and hundred other things not herein
mentioned.
These goods are in nice condition
many of them good as new. If you are
looking for some good things, be sure
and attend this sale. Terms cash.
WALTER c. ADAMS.
\. G.. Gallup. Auctioneer.
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WANTED

reI Gay 1O9-111
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-19

make for success to make success
itself. 1t is not so much what a man
knows, or his ability in applying it,
as it is in what he is himself.
There turks in some human be-
ings, in overlooking measure, that
subtle something termed personal
ity, which is likely to carry them
much further than anything else.
Probably character, courage and de-
pendability are the three greatest
assets. Theodore Roosevelt in his
own biography writes of the two
kinds of success, the one being the
result of natural gifts, the other be-
ing acquired slowly, and adds: II
need hardly say that all the sue
cesses ! have ever won have been of
the second type. never won any
thing without hard labor and the ex.
ercise Of my best Judgment and
careful planning and working long
in advance was as young
man at first both nervous and dis
trustful of my own prowess. / had
to train myself painfully and la
boriously not merely as regards my
body, but as regards my soul and my
spirit"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-19
The Macmillan Expedition

Arctic explorers never quit.
Donald B. Macmillan, who but for
frozen feet would have stood at
the North Pole with Peary, and
who later headed the expedition to
"Crocker Land"--which turned out
to be mirage-has sailed once
more for the top of the world. In
the good ship Bowdoin, which will
tread" ice rather than cut it, he
and his small crew are off for BAT
fin Land, which is practically terra
i3acognita-its interior is unknown
and 1000 miles of it's coast line are
only guessed at.
Macmillan loves the polar adven-
ture, it goes without saying, but if
The thrill and hazard were all he
would have had enough already.
Facts he is after now. 81 hold,'
lie says, '3that we should explore
every land, however remote, how
ever desolate; that we should lay
down it's coast line accurately, in
form ourselves of its physical char
acteristics, study it's bird life,
its botanical species, know
it's people; that we should substi-
tute facts FOR ignorance, conjec-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-19
Making the Bachelor Pay

Bachelors in France are much
stirred up over the tax that has
been levied against them. Whether
il will worry them into matrimony
remains to be seen. just now they
are concerned about how to pay and
keep their freedom. Not the spirit
Of romance, nor pity for the match
less female, but a falling birth
rate has moved the French gov
eminent to try to draft the bachelor
into the ranks of family men. But
whether or not the footloose male
finds it cheaper to marry than not
to marry, the intent Of the new law
will be accomplished, for with mali
cious wisdom the tax collected is to
form a baby bonus fund for those
who are adventurous enough to as
sumo family obligations. Large
families are to be encouraged to
make up for no families, and the
men who refuse to contribute chill
dren Of their own to the nation
must help to bring up the children
Of other men.
No wonder the bachelors are
worried. Even if they elude the in
stinctive pursuit by the female of
the species there is no escape for
them. A relentless government
hunts them down. If financial eau
tion and selfishness are responsible
for the avoidance of marriage the
government may win by gathering
down the defences of the grabbed
cid bachelor. At any rate, the ex
pertinent of making a man pay fol-
the privilege of remaining single
should clear away the mists sur
rounding the bachelor and show
him in his true colors.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-19
The Sirns-Daniels Report

That Josephus Daniels served for
eight years as Secretary of the
Navy was due to President Wilson'S
genius for the mis-selection of pub
lie servants. If he had been a
good Secretary, with the interests
of the navy and its need of round
ing out as a fighting machine at
heart, he could not have remained
in office any longer than Mr.. Will
sons only competent Secretary of
War, Lindley M. Garrison, was
able to do. Mr.. Daniels was a
pacifst, and up to and even after
our declaration of the existence of
state of war with Germany he
was completely in sympathy with
the che kept US out of. war" and
the "peacc without victory" theory.
If he had been a good Secretary he
would have devoted himself to pre-
pairing the fleet for use, while let
ting the President wrestle with the
question of employing or not en-
ploying it.
The report Of the majority of
the subcommittee of the Senate
Naval Affairs Committee, which in
vestigated Admiral Sims's charges
of inefficiency in the conduct of the
war, takes note of the political pre-
possessions which caused Mr..
Daniels to shy at preparedness and
to hold back from an aggressive
policy against Germany in the first
weeks of the war. The Secretary
erred in his own field through
negligence and incapacity in let
ting the navy drift into the war
without provision or proper tuning
up. Yet he also erred because he
tangled up naval management with
the Administrations anti-war diplo-
macy. To that extent he was the
! victim of the failure of the Will
son-House negotiations with Ber-
lin for American mediation in the
winter of 1861 and of Ger
many's brusque decision to force
the United States into the war.
! Mr.. Daniels was a fantastic
Secretary. He opposed naval ex-
J
pansion up to the eve of our entry
into the war. After the armistice
he became an irreconcilable
expansionist, whom Congress had
to restrain. His record is ludi.
crously vulnerable all along the
line, and he was never more mis-
guided than when he went on the
witness stand to try to break the
force of Sims's reflections on his
management of the war. The sub
committee naturally finds these re
Elections justified. That was &
foregone conclusion. The ma,
jority's pamphlet Of 1886 pages is
a skillfully drawn document of per
manent historical value. But Mr.
Daniels had already been definite
ly appraised by popular opinion.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-19

1t is apparent that England has
not taken hold Of the movies as we
have in this country. The Amer
lean has genius for the passion
ate exploitation of anything new.
The movies are no longer new, but
they have a long start in the United
States. The London Times in it's
recent review of three British
films, 'The Broken Road" Money"
and "Uncle Bernac," says:
"Within limits all three were sue
cessful. 1t is sill matter of de-
late whether the cinematograph is
working out it's own salvation in
the best way by relying on the
ready made plots of others, but
whatever one may think of the
method by which they obtained
their stories 1t must be admitted
that all three did the utmost"
This mental reservation with
which the movies are mentioned
in England is swept away entirely
by Mrs. Kendall, who, going much
further, declared that the cinemas
were IAN insult to God" because
they took away the voice. The pity
Of the movies is that they fail
to reinforce the educational power
of the legitimate stage in voice
culture-practically the only in
fluence we have to train the voices
of people.
1t is also true that the movies
lend themselves in very peculiar
way to vulgarity But admitting
all this, it still remains that within
their scope they have introduced us
to an entirely new sensation, closely
approximating to the highest art
namely, their astonishing power
to show real human beings in ac-
ton. The boundless freedom of
activity which the movies alone give
to human beings--for they have all
outdoors to work in-enables us to
view these human beings as they
never have been viewed before. The
story or plot often spoils the effect
of this. But if one can, in looking
at the screen, divorce himself from
his own kind and fancy he is look
ing from another planet upon these
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-19
Without Fireworks
To the Editor of The Tribune.

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The present national Admins
tration has been in Office less than four
months and half. Notwithstanding
that, carping critics whose letters have
appeared from time to time in your
columns have complained that the Ad-
ministration didn't declare it's policy
with reference to the safety of world
democracy, world peace, the League of
Nations.
The correspondents wanted words,
words, words, and they got no words.
They wanted printed program forth
with-a program full Of fine phrases.
They didn't get it-they haven't got
it yet. What disappointment to these
gentlemen it must be to realize that
deeds at last have supplemented elo-
quence! What strange situation to
find this Administration actually dig
ging into the details Of accomplish
ment!
To get together and disarm--what a
disappointing outlook! True, it may
stop the burden of war taxation-the
cost of armament in peace. True, it
may prevent future wars. 1t may do
what all the common people want done,
1t may do it without fireworks. 1t may
do it without giving the Chief Execu-
tive chance to become the ruler of
the world. But it isn't very classy
is it? There's no great, stirring prin-
ciple to it, is there? And how is the
world going to become safe for democ-
racy in this way if somebody doesn't
make the announcement in advance?
COMMONER,
New York, July 1e, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-19
seThe Best Minds

The story Of Michael j. Nolan,
while not only extremely interesting
but highly creditable to this remark
able soldier and citizen, need not
alarm those more humble among us
who despair of ever attaining any
distinction in mental efficiency. The
head of the psychology department
Of the University of Washington
who has had opportunity to make q
careful study of Mr.. Nolan, asserts
that he has one of the twenty-five
most brilliant minds in America. He
was able to pass the Alpha army
test, the hardest intelligence test we
have, with score of Eli out Of a
possible PIP, the best previous rec
ord being 207, made by Yale
professor. He did in less than two
minutes what it took a college pro-
fessor nearly two hours to do, and
did it much better. Yet in 1919 Mr..
Nolan was only discharged soldier,
applying for vocational training.
Since then, in an educational way,
he has passed everything in sight
Apparently his extraordinary mental
powers did not develop until five
years ago.
There are numerous recorded in
stances of unusual mental powers.
1t is significant that mathematical
prodigies are not uncommon among
negroes. Every once in a while a
boy prodigy becomes prominent, and
those of us who struggle along with
mediocre abilities are ashamed To
think how little we know. Last
autumn we were entertained by the
youthful chess player, Rzeschewski
Recently a young boy in Columbia
attracted great attention because of
his precocity.
With due respect to Mr.. Nolan
and his prototypes, we may say, how
ever, that it takes more than mental
ability to make man and more than
the qualities that ara snnposed to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-19
A Disturbed Reader

Says a disturbed reader of The
Tribune:
"Why do you blame Wilson, who had
only one trial against world of OPP
position. for creating tho league cove
nant with forty-eight nations rather
than forty-nine, while you praise Har-
ding for not being able, after many
trials, to prevent Wilson's success
from forcing US into the mutilated
imitation of twentieth of the league
covenant with Only few of the forty
eight nations? z"
The foregoing may be submitted
as evidence of the queer way a hui
man mind sometimes works.
The common complaint against Mr..
Wilson is not that he sought to put
us into leagues, but that he kept US
out of any. The record is that he
preferred aloofness rather than to
consent to notifications of his plan
which secured the independence of
this country's future action-modi-
fications whose reasonableness the
whole world now comedies.
No conceivable amount of eXplo-
sive assertion or casuistry is able to
obscure the plain fact that Mr.. Har-
ding while a Senator voted twice to
enter the Geneva league, while Pres
ident Wilson said that he would put
the league covenant into pigeon
hole unless ratified in the exact way
he said it must be.
AS to a league Of forty-eight OF a
league of FIVE opinions differ. Our
own preference is for the smaller
and more compact organization, es-
pecially in view of the fact that
power is, and promises to be for long
time, in the possession of the five.
But that there are vital differences
between the policies of the two Pres
idents and that the one has not
warmed over the policy of the other
are sufficiently attested by the cir
cumstance that Mr.. Wilson took us
out Of the Supreme Council Of the
Allies, while Mr.. Harding promptly
put us back in.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-19
Dead Letter Postage Due"

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Within fortnight two mis-
addressed letters have been returned
by the Dead Letter Office at Washing
ton. Such communications, as l re-
call, used to come in buff envelopes
marked Official Business" and entail
ing no expense.
Each of these two, however, was IN
a Scent stamped envelope and eseh
bore cents in due stamps, this amount
being required by the carrier upon der
livery.
Is there a new ruling whereby charge
is made for such service? If not, why
should there be levy for Official
business" or, at any rate, why should
8 cents be assessed as in war time,
when cents carry other letters now
adays? JERSEY.
Paterson, N. j., July Is, 1891.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-19
Changing Couture
Mere Man Doubts That Bodied Hair
Has Come to Stay

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Anent C. L. F.'s letter on aThs
Short Haired Girl" in to-day's Tribune,
I venture to remind that writer that
women's fashions are governed by no
rules. To go back only to the sos, the
ladies-God bless them!-could not be
tempted to wear anything but hoop
skirts. A little latey they wore their
hair in waterfalls"
Does C. L. F. think that lastedf Oh,
no! Not so many years later they
banged" their lovely locks, and many
an elderly lady who followed that fash
ion lived to regret it, for the bang
sometimes stayed and nature would not
repair the damaged front locks. Later
it was the fashion to wear Psyche knots
they had come to stay; then "rats"
were used to make the maidens' lovely
hair stand out like a solid aureole.
Ladies, ladies, don't be impatient!
am a mere man and my chronology
is wrong, | have no doubt. 1t is The
charming vagary of your fair sex am
referring to. No laws Of the Medes
and Persians, that alter not, govern you
in fashion, and you are right, as you
were in the days of Sesostris, of Louis
XVI, of Queen Anne, of Victoria, and
as you are in these days of President
Harding.
AS for bobbed hair-why, bless you,
sir! it is not fifteen years since they,
as little things, bobbed it, and why
not? Next year it may be curls-sn-
other year twill be braids. Yes, ladies,
you used to admire them, though they
had to be eked out at times. c. L. +.
is a materialist, Mr.. Editor. He thinks
that because suffrage is here the ladies'
have changed. The beauty of the fair
sex is its changefulness.
AN OLD TRIBUNE READER
Passaic, N j., July 16. 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-19
A Wilsonian s Parallel

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorial on THE Wicked
Lloyd George" is very suggestive. The
constant nagging of the British Pre-
mier by his political foes and the per-
sistent efforts to handicap him in ali
his movements show that they place
political exigencies above the peaee OF
the world.
But is the British politician peculiar
in this respect? Most decidedly, no.
We had striking example Of the same
thing in our own country When
President Wilson, inS the performance
of duty laid upon him by the Con-
stitution, was negotiating the most
difficult and important treaty in the
history of the world his political foes
worked overtime TO handicap him ana
TO thwart HIS efforts.
ALFRED WELLS RICHARDSON.
New York, July IT, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-19
Ship Mastery
Further Comment ON the Marine
Engineers Subordination


To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t is evident to me that the
writers of the letters on shipmasters
and marine engineers were educated
in a school that taught them to look
through the reverse end of the
binoculars.
"Son of an Old shipmaster" says HIS
grandfather could navigate ship with
out having to 60 to school to learn
navigation. The said ship must have
sailed on the Erie Canal, where they
used mule power and navigated with a
tow line.
"Throttle Valve" says I'VE are enter
ing new era and the engineer is here
to stay" That was the opinion of tho
engineers that were employed by the
elevated railroads some years ago.
They were superseded by motormcn,
and, in my opinion. that will eventual
ly be the fate of the steam engineer
when every vessel becomes electrified
and the non-executive complement will
be cut down thirds. / want to
tell Throttle Valve" that the old "blue.
nose skipper" and his "bucko mate
didn't do as much to sailors as some
engine room officers did to the fremen.
That's a story still untold.
Bert Collins mentions the TRADITIONS
Of the sea-" There is no such thing,
to my knowledge. But there is an
international fundamental law that
recognizes master of q vessel as the
supreme authority outside the three.
mile limit, but subject to the laws OF
his own country or a foreign port OF
entry inside that limit. zone Who
Served in the Navy" ought to go back
there, because his letter indicates that
he has lot to learn. The navy has
two distinct branches-the executive
which is the seaman's end, and the
non-executive, the mechanical end, thai
has command of all machinery but is
subject to orders from the bridge.
1t is not my intention to disparaes
the qualifications Of the marine en-.
gineers, for they are necessary to the
steamship. But when they intimate
that the only requirement necessary
to become master is to put on uni
form with gold decorations it is tim.
to let them know where to get off.
would like to place "Old Shipmaster''
in boat with sail and an oar for
rudder, his compass and quadrant; ane
his traducers in a similar boat with ;
full equipment of machinery and {
wireless operator, tow them both tx
@the middle of the Atlantic, start then
off and see which one would arrive j,
New York first. I have not the leas
doubt about the result. It would show
the improvements that have advance,
navigation to science, by intrepi,
seamanship, without the aid of engi
neers. JAMES FOREMAN SR.
Passaic, N. j., July IS, 1921.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-19
The Duty on Spices
New York, July 1e. 1921.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Does anybody know whethe,
the propo Il increase in duty on spices
scheduled in the Fordney bill is to
come under the head of tariff TO,
revenue only or be classified as a pro-
lection of our infant industries, or,
peradventure. just another levy on our
food supply in appreciation Of the in.
exhaustible patience of credulous peo.
pie who recently expressed at the polls
an almost unanimous sentiment on the
desirability of more taxes on food?
WILLIAM N. TOSHACH.
Brooklyn, July 16, 1921.