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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-05

earned and business houses could contest
the ruling in the courts and probably win
by contending that the sums taken by the
government We're taxes on capital which
OF course, is not legal
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-05

At the meeting of the Vermont Bar
7SsoclatIon at Montpelier yesterday a sill
YER coi1ee service was presented to Mrs
Nellie Cox Laird. who retires after "
ears service as court stenographer.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-05
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or have dyed" Look

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woman can diamond-dye new, rich,
fadeless color into worn, shabby gar
ments, draperies, coverings, whether
wool, silk, linen, cotton or mixed goods.
Buy Diamond Dyes"-no other kind
then perfect results arc guaranteed even
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-05

Burlingtons fire loss for 1920 was less
han $4,000 one of the lowest records
n recent years. The department ans
ywered to 1876 alaEms of which SO were
hell alarms. The greatest cause of fire
vas overheated chimnevs.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-05

Fred A. Gardner of Windsor. who has
been engineer at the state prison for y
years. has had only two vacations of two
weeks, each in all that time His 5Oth
birthday was honored recently by 80
brother officers of the prison.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-05


Mr.. Ritchie had been treasurer of the
Citizens Savings Bank and Trust company
For 81 years.
At the meeting of the Vermont Bar
1ssoclatIon at Montpelier yesterday a sill
ellie Cox Laird, who retires after %
ears service as court stenographer.
Burlington's fire loss for 1920 was less
han $4,000 one of the lowest records
n recent years The department ans
wered to 1876 ALARMS of which SO were
bell alarms. The greatest cause of fire
vas overheated chimneys.
Fred A. Gardner of Windsor, who has
been engineer. at the state prison for -
years. has had only two vacations Of two
birthday was honored recently by %
brother officers of the prison.
The Vermont state poultry association
'nened at st. Adams yesterday with
boat l 600 birds on exhibition. MANY of
he birds which won prizes in the Boston
show last week have been entered and
will compete for honors against the To-
cal birds. d. p. Shove of Fall River.
Mass, is the judge.
Waldo Brunette. IS. of Rutland. died
yesterday at the Rutland hospital as the
result of a rifle wound in the head re-
celved last Saturday while at a camp on
VT. kTlhngton. Some of the other mem
hers of the party were hunting squirrels
IN the woods near the camn and Brunette
was splitting wood at the time. Just who
fred the shot has not been determined.
Brunette was employed as a linotype on
orator by the Rutland Herald.
Lost on Mount Mansfield in binding
snow storm, four young men from Burl-
ington had the unusual New Years ex-
rerienee of being all dav without food or
water and of finally finding their way
hack TO civilization. food and shelter
long after the darkness had fallen on the
first day of 1921. The young men who
were the heroes of this episode are John
billings. Allen Godfrey. Owen Humph-
reys and Wendall Felpnson. all having
otudent in the University of Michigan and
Godfrey is freshman at the University
of Vermont.
Robert Vaughan, wanted in Massacllus-
atts for breach Of parole will FIGHT extra
dition papers. He pleaded guilty in fed
eral court to the charge of smuggling
Chinaman into this country and was given
a 81 fine and 30 DAYS III county jail 1t
was technical charge against him. it be-
mo claimed that all he did was to tell
the persons where the train standing i'm
the station was going and that he had no
rart ~ hrinpIn" tn" man into this coun-
trv He was naroled from Charlestown
n~isop after serving = port; on of hia SON
tence for robbery He is heinz held now
by the county officials and the officers
ere expected in Montpelier daily to make
an effort to take him back to Boston.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-05

An icicla that formed from the caves
of Leon V Hewitt's house i'll Springfield
perfectly resemhed a sword in sheath.
The icicle was four feet seven inches in
length.
The Washington times., 1921-12-23
THEY'RE HUMAN
William Atherton Du Puy-
BY

Admiral Tsia Tin Kan (honest that's his name)
was the first man to perform a certain remark.
able operation, and one can never be deprived of
the honor, once attained, of having done a thing
first.
He was the first man in the world to cut the
queue from the head of President of China. He
did 1t with his own hands and the royal shears.
1t was some ten years ago that Yuan Shi Kai
had registered of those irrevocable firsts
by getting himself elected the No President
of China. There were a lot Of forward looking
Orientals associated with this idea Of a Chinese
republic and some of them prejudiced
against the queue. They kept suggesting to the
He kind Of had the habit, however and was re-
luctant. Then Of a sudden he decided to kick
the past In the Stats and get himself fixed up 30
his wife would say to him every couple weeks.
yuan, you need haircut"
He picked on Admiral Tsai Tin Kan as the of.
ficial amputator because the admiral had first
versatile, so this dignitary snapped the scissors
raucuousy twice or thrice and put them to the
task In two minutes he had cut the Oriental
tie to the past and advanced the state Of the
ton 1000 years.
Thomas Watt Gregory, who used to be Attorney
General under Woodrow Wilson, and who now
has his single out in New York. comes to Wash
ington for the fishing once In a while, for he
knows just where to drop line to get immediate
action.
He is as canny about his piscatorial informa-
ton in the law. He realizes that there IL an
advantage in knowing little more about the sit
uation than the other fellow.
So when he hired q motorb0at to Chug him
q tributary of the Chesapeake the other day, he
alighted at self.shown spot and paid off the ser
vitcr. He waited until that individual clean
gone when he ploted his party up the stream,
around a bend and into a cove overhuns with
willows.
And the fish, bigger and better fish than
be found anywhere else the Atlantic seaboard
began to jump out Of the water and beg for hooks
before the bait could be opened. The knowl-
edge Of the whereabouts Of this cove Ia too pre-
cious secret to share with mere motorboat
chauffeur.
Writing women gather in Washington at the
Hoot OF the Owl, an eating place maintained by
the League Of American Penwomen.
Mrs. Grace Duffie Boylan Gilbert whose books
run under the first three sections of her name,
was chatting with Angela Morgan, the poet, and
Mrs. Winifred Sackville stoner, the mother of
the wonder 80 much talked about.
Mrs. Stoner said that she knows a young scup-
tress In New York who Is starving, and that this
girl was offered $4,000 commission the other
day to make n bust of a certain rich of whom
she disapproved. She declined the commission
Those things do happen.
There is no occasion for such action" Mrs
Gilbert held. did not God himself make the
original bust in His own imagef"
Copyright 1874
The Washington times., 1921-12-23
THE Bland Chinee, Also
the Jnpanee

~ HE wise of the United States measuring their
i wits against those of China and Japan-especally
Japan.
What will come out of the discussoni Not much from
Asia not many concessions from THAT quarter you may
be
To listen politely, nhale the breath, bow and smile is
Asiatic To hurry and rush is American. Hurry won't
work when we deal with gentle patient long resisting
friends from across the wide Pacific.
Mr. William L. Richard publishes little pamphlet de-
scribing an ancient Tbetan manuscript And on the
cover he prints very short poem here reproduced for
the edifcaton of Washington statesmen.
Uncle Sam and his representatives who about to
negotiate with the children that from the setting
might keep these eight lines in mind:
1t doesn't pay, on summer day.
To hustle the bland Chinee,
For the white man frets and fumes and sweats
While the yellow sips his tea;
At the end of the day there's tombstone gray
Which worries John Chinaman least;
For the Chink is abed, and chump lies dead,
Who tried to hurry the East.
The Washington times., 1921-12-23
PROMINENCE

PROMINENCE was recently
given to a report that DIR.
q John B. Beaver, president of
the American College of Surgeons,
had said that nothing could be
looked for in the future from "a
dunn in the treatment of cancer"
What he said is now available in
an official version and it is not 80
discouraging:
Men of experience have seen
method after method heralded as q
panacea, lauded to the skies, only
to fall in disuse and be consigned
to a well deserved oblivion, because
it has failed to stand the acid test
of experience.
II hesitate to express my fear
that this may prove to be the ulti-
mate fate of radium treatment for
cancer; for I should greatly regret
to see our fervent hopes rudely
shattered.
"But at least I feel justified in
sounding q note of warning against
too great expectations, for we have
already found that it falls far short
of being a universal cure and, in
deed, in many situations where we
most need help it has proved sadly
lacking"
The testimony of surgeons of the
highest skill and reputation indi-
Gates that radium in certain kinds
of cancer effects miraculous results,
and in other cases fails. The best
physicians and scientists who use it
admit that they still have much to
learn about its possibilities.
The Washington times., 1921-12-23
Again the
Sales Tax
r HANKS to Representative Les
ter D. Volk, the Sales Tax is

Cer -. NOlk, Cue Odlcc AaA 10
once more before the Congress,
where, like Banquo's ghost, it will
not down.
Proposed at the beginning as a
means for delayed justice to vet
Grams, fair trial is, we think, certain
to prove it of permanent worth.
Visit to Canada of the forty-seven
Congressional guests of the Hearst
newspapers has dispelled a number
of misconceptions concerning this
method of raising revenue. Observ-
ance of it in operation has shown
that it:
Is easily collected;
Is not burdensome to business or
oppressive to consumers;
Is fair in its distribution; and
Is effective.
OF no tax plan can more be rea-
sonably expected, nor should less be
tolerated.
The Sales Tax is a visible tax
which automatically creates gen.
eral demand for economy in Govern
ment, which we surely need.
Applied in the first instance to
paying the debt of honor we owe
the men who won our victory in war,
it can afterward be made useful in
meeting the needs of peace and re-
construction-in developing our
schools, our roads, our rivers and
harbors, our new homesteads, our
now neglected water power, our
forests, our housing, our health; in
short, the general welfare.
1t will also make possible the un-
Stacking Of productive capital,
which is the foremost reason for it's
speedy adoption.
The Washington times., 1921-12-23
Are You HOme-BrelUing or
DistiLLing?

n HIS homeloving nation has also become home brew
l ing and home-distilng nation Some changing
their kitchens into distleries Many that began with
home BREWING changing the brewing into distling
because distlng is easy, requires less attention, the
result is easily hidden and transported and it pro-
duces a violent effect.
Here facts that interest you you sit waiting
for the brew bubble for the little coled pipe packed
in ice to begin pouring out its condensed highly reliable
alcoholic poison.
Formerly beer fit to drink could not be made less than
ONE YEAR. Then scientists showed that, with greatest
care with machinery costing hundreds of thousands with
careful filterng, settling and refrigeration it possible
scientifically to make beer in three months, free from
dangerous ferments, etc.
BUT 1T CAN'T BE DONE IN LESS THAN THREE
MONTHS
And this highly Intelligent nation, at least
large part Of It, l. bLandy drinking beer very badly
made and about susek old.
It looks like beer undoubtedly, tastes SOMETHING like
beer but you have idea what it does to your body
fearfuly and wonderfully made when it gets inside Of
you.
Doctors that know will tell you that beer of that kind
be safely guaranteed to give you Brghts disease inside Of
five years. and the Bghs disease is warranted to
you the trouble of further home brewing after about
five years
The home brewer is advised in the most friendly way
to insure his life for the benefit of his family before he
starts his little while after he starts the
panies won't insure him.
As for home distilng that is shorter easier and BET
TER than home brewing you tired of this life and
would like to what comes after it.
There are poisons in badly made whiskey that some
times blindness and immediate death That is the
kindes sort of whskey it puts out Of misery
quickly, saves you much distilling and bother
The least harmful kind of whiskey that you make
at home is thoroughly poisonous is all whiskey for that
matter. But the difference between home made whiskey
and whiskey scientifically made is the difference between
the bite of ratesnake and the bite of milder snake
it takes many more bites from the mild snake to kill you
1t is too bad but it is also FACT that much better
investment than ordinary to be found in the stock Of
welorganized graveyard A few years from
many fathers brothers and will be safely laid away
at profit to the graveyard stockholders
On their graves there COULD but will not be, written
sHere Lies a Home Brewer" "Here Lies One That
Distilled His Own.'
The Washington times., 1921-12-23

Fifth, similar those West Point and
Annapolis whose addition general scientific
shall military education enable them
to be officers their time should call them to
it's defense.
Finally fortified from which fleets could
of far from shores
This is not offensive It purely defensive
cannot opposition from which does not
contemplate the possibility Of attacking
When nation like Japan objects to stationary Notifications
objects defense against contemplated
The Washington times., 1921-12-23
We TOWNEGOSSIP
Copyright, 1881.
By X. G.. B.

Dear X. C. B.-From one Of your articles
that / have just read it Is evident that you
were not brought up under the good old rule
that children should be seen and not heard.
You suggest that when parents decline to per-
nit their children to engage in conversation
with their elders or to bother their elders
with questions that when the parents have
grown old they should not be surprised If
their grown children should sometimes ig-
more them. Don't you think that old age Is
entitled to the respect of youth merely be-
cause it is old age? / am sure you do.
HENRY COLLINS.
The Washington times., 1921-12-23
Il DEFENSIVE PROGRAM FOR THE UNITED S71ATES

And when nation like England objects
to patrol and protect objects merely the effective
opposition that would be offered descent
similar to that which England
troops soil and Capitol washington
White House of the President
Words good when backed by deeds
welt said and as Washington said hundred before him.
Certainly words good when
ton to previous deeds and characteristic practices.
Therefore people should
and false promises they have enough education
facts and the confirmed which nations like
England and Japan have
The Washington times., 1921-12-23

First equal that Of which threatens to
whether that force b single nation alliance Of
nations.
Second sufficient air fleet and safficient submarine fleet
and the landing of hostile
troops, If navy should b destroyed in action
Third
Of and the protection of
in times of
Fourth training public schools which
will srsnshsn them physically and enable them with slight
become defensive guard their
Try ever be invaded.
The Washington times., 1921-12-23
The March
of EUents
FRENCH diplomatists are only
second to England's in axperi-

second to England's in expert
ence, skill and ability. The ira
ditions accumulated in hundreds of
years of international intrigue, all
the tricks that are successful in d.
plomacy-like secrets of profession
al fencers-are handed down from
generation to generation.
American diplomacy has won sig
nal triumphs, but they have always
been due to right thinking, plain
speaking, and courageous action,
never to fnesse.
The proposed four-Power treaty
for the control Of the Pacific Ocean
may not imperil our liberty or
put our power in chains, but
the whole thing is wrong if
the steadfast American policy of
the past 120 years has been right.
We have pursued all our life as a
nation one simple rule in foreign
affairs. It is: "Be sure you are
right and then go ahead" That
implies independence and self-re-
lance, and we have always acted in
that spirit, taking temporary part
ners at times to achieve a definite
object, but making no general al
lance for offense and defense.
How much influence will we exert
in a partnership in which we shall
always be in minority, but whose
decisions we may feel bound to
accept
The common American belief that
the French mind is emotional, I'M
calculating, sentimental and idealis-
tic is wholly wrong. The French
mind is hard-headed, calculating,
grasping and intensely practical.
And French diplomacy is all these
and then some more.
France is a small country which
maintains the rank of a frst-class
Power by diplomacy and alliances
and war. Her people are natural,
brilliant fighters. If all naval and
military ornaments were abolished,
France would become a second-class
or third-class Power. French mill
tarism will not hear of land disarma-
ment and French diplomacy does not
mean to let an era of rapid recon-
struction under British leadership
reduce the prestige of France on
the continent Of Europe, where she
means to be the greatest military
Power. Once militarism really de-
parts from Europe, the two first
class states in Europe would soon
be Germany and Russia.
Now a Pan-American conference
is to be called. That is at least one
bright ray of good sense in the
midst of the darkness in which our
craftsmanship has been stumbling
over it's own clumsy feet.
Failing to invite the Latin-Ameri-
can Republics to the Washington
Conference was breach of courtesy
and an error in diplomacy, but the
object of the conference was to
form a limited partnership of the
mighty, not a league of peoples for
real disarmament.
The method of really great states
manship would be to cultivate good
will and the friendly political and
trade relations between the two
Americas, with certainty that such
IAN unofficial alliance of interests
would finally result in permanent
peace and prosperity for all the peo-
Piles dwelling in the New World.
This would set noble example be-
The Washington times., 1921-12-23
K. MILLER
HIS EDITORIAL
ON
XMAS SPIRITS.

biggest benefit Of pro-
hibition has been to
bootlegger. Amendment au-
thorizes bogus business and
then ex g m pts proprietor
from income tax.
The Washington times., 1921-12-23

MORE and worse whiskey
AVA in city this Christmas
than when Indians were
making it and calling 1t fire
water. In the old days 1t
would only ignite by flame,
but the stuff you're getting
now will explode II you rub
the cork real hard against
the bottle.
DECENT big trial in Vir-
~ GINA had rural soaks
running around in circles.
Only moonshiner in the COM
munity was serving on jury.
Supply ran out before case
was half over and cash Gus
toners had visions of dry
Christmas.
FUDGE scented situation
- and decided to come to
rescue Of famished parish
toner's. Hurried trial 30 much
evidence got warped from
over-h eating.
Jury deliberated over
- bearish liquor marker
and rather than disappoint
prospective clients decided
to railroad the prisoner back
to freedom. All but one
juryman agreed. He was a
circuit-riding sky pilot as
well as foreman.
IT. EJVE CUES
l. wrangled and thirsted
to get loose from that room,
but they finally told Judge
couldn't agree,
The Washington times., 1921-12-23

HONEST merchants are
closing front doors and
having carpenters build side
or family entrances. Profits
are o. K, but boss has dis
covered a science not taught
by correspondence s C h o o |
where profits are X. o.
The Washington times., 1921-12-23

ONLY one game the tax
W ferrets can't check UP
on-that's the babies who
buy It for four dollars. dilute
It with naphtha and sell 1t
for twelve.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-09-26
MUCH INTEREST IN
CONGRESSIONAL RACE

Boston. Sept. GA special election on
Tuesday In the Sixth Congressional!
district. normally Republican. will! bring
to n close Il pOlitica! campaign which
though brief has been Of the mos; ac-
tive Tho district has seen In years
Colonel A. Plat Andrew. Of Glouces-
ter. since his victory two weeks ago In
q fuur cornered nght for the Republican
nomination.. has had the support of Sem
aior Lodge and members VI his 1hm!IS'
Vice President Coolidge came from
Washington TO speak in his behalf SEN
alor David l. Walsh and other Demo-
cratic leaders have been active III the
campaign "f Judge Charles !. Fct'lnIcH
OF AmeSbury. the nominr" "f thar party
The election WAS made necessary hy
tho resignation OF Congressman Will
fred W. Lufkln. Republican. t" accept
appointment as collector OF the port OF
Boston.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-09-26
EreAe1MENr ANNOUNCED.

CNeveland Sept. l5.--Thc fngagem'ht
Of David Sinton ingalls, to Miss Louise
darkness Nas announced here tonight.
Both arc prominent In social and hnan-
,ial circles " Ohio and New York.
Miss darkness Is a daughter OF the
late William l.. darkness. one OF the
founders Of the Standard Oh company.
lnga.lS is a son OF A s. Ingalls, gen
cral manager OF the New York Central
Railroad lines west OF Cleveland and
a grandson OF Charles +. Taft. Of Cln-
c!nnati
lnLIils said hc expects To finish his
college his college course before the
marriage.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-09-26
Scenes Of Jubi|atiOn
When Prison Doors Open

Mexico City. Sept. 25.--Jubiiant scenes
were enacted al the penitcnt!nry doors
today when the first large Er"'.p or
prisoners were freed in accordnnc" with
President ObreEon's recent decree grant
Ing amnesty 10 prisoners who had served
the greater part OF their sentences
Twenty ore women and three men were
welcomed by their friends and escorted
IN gai.y decorated carriages to their
homes. Several other pris""rrS were
rel"a Sed earlier IN tn" week.
The amnesty decree Is President OBJ
regon'S centennial Gift to tho unfortu-
mates. and the pardon board Is busily
engaged in examining records Of other
prisoners
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-09-26
FLOODS IN MEXICO.

Mexico CITY. Sept. 2A-7he storm,
which on Friday did considerable dam
age at TampiCo and tho surrounding
petroleum region. is sweeping north
ward in tho state ~ TamauIipas. Wire
communicated between Matamoras ara
Tampico IS interrupted. and trans arc
running many hours late between Mons
terey and Tamp!Cn.
The city -. Temp!co was inundated
Friday night. and many small houses
ara r.nnr,rh 20 have been blown down.
Lightning struck 5000 barrel tank
belonging Ia the Mexican Petroleum
Company. and the oil Is still burning
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-09-26
Grave Developments
in Burgen|and Scrap

Vienna. Sept 25-The conviction was
expressed In government circles that
only the early application Of force
would save the Burgenland situation
from grave developments. Hungarys
confession to the allies in Paris thai she
Is unable to clear the territory or the
insurgents. together with Austria's mill
tary lmpotency. has aroused the heller
hero that the little entente" with the
aid Of Italy. soon VIII be brought into
play TO settle the situation.
1t IS admitted on Ill SIDES that
serious situations would follow such
action. as tho Hungarians constantly are
being reinforced.