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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-19
EMPLOYEES FIX
OWN WAGE CUTS
Agreement Reached With Armour Co
Expected Other Packers VIII
AdOnt Plan.

CHICAGO, Nov. I9-Employes of Ar
mour 4 Co, $4,000 in all, yesterday,
through their plant governing committee,
agreed with officials of the packing house
that wage reduction is necessary, and
tlXed its amount. The cut Is effective
Nov. Is
This is the first time in the history of
the industry that a wage reduction has
been arrived at in such a manner.
last night officials of Swift & Co, an
nounced that after an day conference,
the representatives of the Chicago as
sembly of employees had voted that a
readJustment of wages was necessary,
had extended vote of confidence in the
management and had voted to leave the
readJustment to the discretion of the
management.
deductions for classes of employees of
the Chicago assembly practically CORES
pondlng to those fixed by the employees
of Armour 4 Co, and effective on the
same date, Nov. 26, were then annOun-
ced by company officials who said they
expected the other IS assemblies of en-
plOyes to take similar action.
The agreement between Armour & Co.,
and its employees followed a wO-day con-
ference. Twenty-four employees, repre-
sentative of the plant councils in nine
cities, met with an equal number OF com
pany officials. The books were opened
and the financial situation of the COM
pany explained. The question was put
to vote and the following reductions,
effective in all plants except that at
female labor is provided.
For piece workers, 8 per cent: unskIlled
labor, getting Is cents an hour or less,
: ID cents; semi-skilled labor, getting
10 and 80 cents an hour, 3 cents. \ min
imum wage of % cents an hour for adult
female labor ic provided
When the reductions are applied to
the big plants of other members of the
Big Five, l25.G00 men and women will be
affected. In the final result '0r larger
number will be directly concerned, as
wages in several hundred smaller pack
ing houses are based on the Big Five
scales
No change is made in working condi-
tions or the 44-hOur week guarantee.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-19
AIOOn-B Blindness.

The fact that some injurious effect
be it mO0nStToke or blindness
may, and very often does. follow from
sleeping out at night in full moonshine.
has been frequently attested by reliable
witnesses, especially with regard to trop-
zeal climates. That the moon is the
cause of this effect is secuted by many
scientists. The moon gives but a small
part of the suns fight and heat and as
tronomcrs say that we have no evidence
thatAit affects the earth soF its iIaaI6-
tants. except Insofar as the tides are con
cerned. The doctors, on the other hand.
say that bright moonshine is generally
found with a clear sky that clear sky
favors radiation of heat, and that anyone
exposed to this radiation is sure to be
chilled by the rapid loss Of heat This
chill, it is, and not the moon which
causes the facial paralysis and moonblink
Tor mOonblindness) which some have suf-
fered from sleeping in the moonlight An
English officer relates several instances
of his men. who hadv Slept on deck ex-
posed to the moonbeamS, being so blind
on landing that they had to be led by the
hand.-New Orleans Times-P icayune.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-19
GERMANS ATTEND
TO PEACEFUL WORK
Have No Thought of .Arniaments Because
They DO Not Pay-9So Use for
MiIitarists.

SHEFFIELD. Eng, Nov. 19.-Lor,l
Iialdaue. who was in Germany Il week
or SO ago says he found the Germans
working hard. They had put aside all
thoughts of ornaments because they re
allied that ornaments did not pay.
they realized. however, that something
which would pay was the application of
the science which they had learned before
the war and which they would have ap-
piled in peace if they had not been inter
fcred with by a small military party.
Now they we're determined to be free
from interference of the military party.
The output of scientific books had become
enormous. Al classes of people were
working hard, and unemployment hardly
existed.
They had no money except paper,
which had badly deprecated, and to re
store their normal condition they had
found work by taking in other peoples
Washing lie said he saw Il large number
of ships from TyneSide being repaired in
German dockyards because German
dockyards could do the work cheaper
than the British workers.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-19
SURVEY OF STATE HIGHWAYS.
Department Seeks Accurate Data-Will
Plan Future Work On 1t.

MONTPELIER, Nov. l9.-The state
highway department is planning a COM
ulete condition survey of some of the
main highways of the state. Blanks and
Instructions have been sent to the dis
trict men, requesting them to work this
fall and finish this fall if possible
Some of the work may go over to next
spring.
The survey VIII not be one of those
made with instruments. all distances
abeing measured with automobile speed
omeUers except in the case of bridges
The information which will be collected
is condition of the roads, location. char
acter and conditions OF drainage strlic-
lures, location, type, condition and size
"f BRIDGES, location of Grade crossings.
Overpasses, underpasses, location of rock
outcrops, mudholes which obstruct, inter
secting roads. land lighthouses, where
they have been installed. and all dan
gcrolls points such as fills and bitches,
condition of soil, and location of tele-
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-19
TO DEVELOP MORE
AUTOMOBILE CLUBS
American Automobile AS
ISOLATION Meets In De-
trOit Monday
WANTS SMALLER
CITIES TO ORGANIZE

Conference Also Hopes to Establish Me-
chanicaI Aid Service for Members-Map
Making to be Pushed In All Sections
of the Country.
DETROIT, Mich, Nov. 19-Initial
move in an effort to increase membership
of automobile clubs in larger cities of the
country, to promote new clubs in inter
mediate and small cities and to bring
closer cooperation between motor clubs
generally, will be made at a meeting here
Nov. p and 22 of the executive board
of the American Automobile association
and presidents, secretaries and managers
of state and city automobile clubs from
all parts of the United States
The conference has been called by
George c. Diehl of Buffalo, president of
the national association. In his call for
the meeting Mr.. Diehl declared that
under the plan to be proposed automobile
clubs in larger cities of the country will
be expected to organize and develop new
clubs in smaller municipalities in their
districts.
When the smaller clubs have been
placed on business basis their operation
will be put in the hands of local motor
lists. the interest of the larger Organiza-
tiOns being only to develop them to a
point insuring their success.
The plan also includes a provision for
establishment of mechanical aid service
for members of clubs. Such system IS
employed in England.
The \. \. \. touring board also ex-
poets to be active during the conference,
planning to carry its map making work
forward. An effort will be made to have
each club in every state provide accur-
ate and up to date maps for its members.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-19
DOUBT O'BRIEN AND
STEWART ARE SAME
Terence O'Brien Once Came to Yer
mont But Relatives Do Not Know
Him as Stewart.

NASHUA, y. H, Nov. 19-The late
John X. Stewart, multi-milliOnaire of
spCedomcter fame, may have been Ter
ence O'Brien. once a hand in the Ameri-
can Shearer Manufacturing Co.'S plant,
here. On the other hand, he may have
been born with the name he bore to his
grave. For all the O'Brien's of Nashua
care the inventor of, the SpeedOmeter was
always a Stewart
katherine O'Brien, senior member of
the little family of two brothers and a
sister. stated the attitude of the O'BrienS
in four short words, when informed by
a reporter that it looked as if Stewart
and Terence were one and the same, and
that she might share in the milliOnaire's
estate.
The divvle with it. said katherine,
and resumed her activities over a pan Of
fish. frying for brother Jacks and brother
Davids dinner And Jack VBrien,
when he came home from his work at
the freight office, voiced a like sentiment
However complicated the mystery of the
identity becomes. it is highly improbable
that a suit for a part of the Stewart mil
lions viii come from Nashua % add to
the Complexity.
Few persons in Nashua remember Ter
cnce O'Brien. No one had given him a
thought for years. But when the news
papers carried the story that John X.
Stewart was formerly Terence O'Brien,
and that he ORIGINALLY came from Yer
mont, someone recollected that Ted"
OBren had gone to Pownal, Vt, after
quitting his home.
The local afternoon paper was the first
to link the Nashua Terence O'Brien with
the Terence O'Brien. who, according t.
the metropolitan dailics, went from
Vermont town to seek his fortune in the
West. All over Nashua, men and women
in the 5Os rackcd their brains. but few
could remember much of Ted O'Brien.
OBripn his Identity is lost sight of soon
after his departure from Vermont. Little
can be learned of the early days of John
X Stewart.
According to DIR. NJ. O. Heckard, regis
ira of vital statistics in Chicago, John X.
Stewart was born in New York state.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-19
WARDSRORO.

DIR, Q. V. Hcfflon is spending a few
days at his old home in Franklin.
Mrs. T. l.. White went to the Memo
rial hospital Tuesday for treatment.
George Johnson and friend of Seymour.
Conn, is at r. G. WiIder's deer hunting.
W. II. Parsons will hold an auction
Nov. 10 to sell his place and personal
property.
Mr. and Mrs. w f. Allen carried Mrs.
Mary May to Greenfield, Mass, Sunday,
where she will spend the winter.
Mrs Sarah Estabrook of Wardsboro
Center came last Friday to spend the
winter with her sister, Mrs. Eliza Has
kins
Arthur J. w Hyde of New York and
George Tucker of BrattleborO were at
w. W. Kiddcr's Monday and Tuesday
deer hunting.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alden Torrey and Mr..
Torreys mother and grandchiid, Annie
Bills. of Jamaica, have rented Wales
PlimptOn's house.
Miss Faith Yeaw of Brattleboro and
+. X. Brown spoke on the Red Cross in
the church Sunday morning. Mrs. NJ. /.
Johnson is chairman of the Red Cross
drive in this village
Mr.. and Mrs Ernest St Mary and
Clarence st. Mary, who spent the past
week with their parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank st. Mary. returned to their home in
Springfield Vt), III. f. Knight taking
them with his automobile.
The successful deer hunters are as fol-
lows: G. \. Frost. West WardsborO,
10-point buck; Dewey Howard. jamaica,
six-point buck; Archie Knight, Jamaica,
four-point buck; Mr.. Watkins of West
minister, eight-point buck; William Fitz-
patrick spike horn buck
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-19
Monastery Wine MYstery.

Mystery surrounds an old monas-
terry near South Lea farm, Datchet.
The greater part was pulled down
some years ago and fire destroyed a
good deal of the remainder. There
are several deep wells, and 1t is said
that at the bottom of one there are
5000 bottles of wine placed there by
monks, but an attempt to find them
has failed. Under the ruins are a
large number of cHrthenware bottles
Of quaint pattern, aud there is a legend
that a subway leads from the monas-
terry to Burnham abbey.-London Daily
Mail.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-19

see well enough to get off at the right
intersection.
The most feminine touch to the whole
thing is the salutation of the motOretts.
1t just seems they can't pass each other
without ringing the gOngs. 1t is just like
one girl saying, "Oh, hello, Irene"
The women wear neat khaki uniforms,
and seem to like their jobs. Some of
them accepted this kind of work to help
their husbands, who are afflicted with
tuberculosis.-De Dearborn Independent.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-19
SAYS CHURCH HAS FAILED.
Professor Emerson Calls Hughes Best
Preacher of Today.

BURLINGTON, Nov. I9-Prof. s. F.
Emerson of the University of Vermont,
who has occupied the chair of history for
many years. declared in an address on
disarmament before local Unitarian
society last night:
'.The church has failed I am sorry
to say it, but the church has failed.
There is more religion down there in that
conference at Washington than there IS
in our churches Hughes is the best
preacher that | know of today"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-19
CROSSING DEATHS 1900.
Nearly 1900 Injured by Reckless Driving

BALTIMORE. Nov. 19.-More than
1000 persons we're killed and nearly
three times that number were seriously
injured in accidents at railroad cross
ings in the last year, according to a
statement prepared by c. w. Galloway,
vice president in charge of operation and
maintenance of the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad as a part of the railroads cam
paign for the promotion of safety.
Most of these accidents befeIl motor
lists who failed to observe ordinary pre-
cautions when approaching grade cross
ings. such as slowing down to moderate
speed and looking and listening before
crossing the tracks.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-19
KNOCK OUT INHERITANCE TAX.
House and Senate COnferees Refuse to
Increase Ii.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.-Thc senate
amendment proposing to increase the max
imum inheritance tax rate from the pres
ent % per cent on estates valued at
100000 600 or more to 30 per cent on
those of S10OO00.O00 or more was
Knocked out of the tax revision bill yes
terday by house and senate cOnferces.
This amendment formed a part of the
compromise REVISION program brought for
ward by the senate agricultural bloc and
agreed to by Republican leaders.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-19
RUSSIANS HAVE NO TRADE.
Commercial Treaties With Them Bring
No Results.

THE HAGUE, Nov. 19.-Foreign
Minister Karnebeek told the Netherlands
parliament the other day that England
Germany and Norway were greatly dis
appointed over the results Of their com
Inercial treaties with Russia. He said
that Russian production was so unimpor-
tant that barter was impossible. that the
economical conditions in Russia were
getting worse and that the Russian gold
supply was rapidly decreasing.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-19
The Difference.

When you see an old man alone you
are looking at something very sad ;
when you see an old man with young
wife, yea are looking at something
very ricli.-From Eve, London.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-19
GIVES OLD PIPE A REST.
Edward Bubrey, 1O5, and Inveterate
Smoker. Is Dead.

UTICA. \. Y, Nov. 19,-Edward
Bubrey. 100. died at his home in Clay
Vile. near Utica. Thursday night. He
was born in Brasher Falls, y. Y, May >,
1916. and most Of his life was spent in
that section. He had enjoyed practically
unbroken good health until few hours
before his death.
Mr.. Bubrey smoked almost continually
and every night rose three or four times
to hit his old pipe.
His survivors include one daughter, 50
Years old. living in the vicinity Of Brasher
Falls
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-19
Political Economy.

Political economy (the economy of
a state, or of cftizens) consists SIM
ply in the production, preservation, and
distribution, at f1ttest time and place,
of useful or pleasurable things.-Rus-
kin.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-19
NEW MANAGER OF WELDON.
j. 7. Seller To Control Greenfield Hotel
i'll Future.

GREENFIELD, Mass, Nov. 19.-The
Weldon Hotel Co. announced yesterday
the appointment of !. Tennyson Seller
as manager of the hotel to succeed Ma
poleon a Campbell, who has resigned,
to take effect December l. Mr.. seller
has been associated with the company
as Il director and treasurer for the past
eight years Since 1920 he has been
vice-president He has been in close
touch with the affairs of the hotel, and il
familiar with its policies and service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-19

phone and utility poles at intersecting
roads.
The purpose of the survey is to file in
the state office and the district offices
accurate data for use in planning main
tenance and construction work.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-19
Sporting News
CHAMPIONSHIP GAME.
st. AlbaHs High and Lyndon Institute
to Play i'm burlington.

to Play in burlington.
The St. Adams high school team and
the aggregation representing Lyndon In
stitute will meet on Centennial field in
Burlington, next Tuesday afternoon to
settle the high school football champion
ship of Vermont. f~
Neither team has been beaten this
year, and while st. Adams is slight
favorite on the comparative score basis,
tho two teams should furnish thrilling
battle.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-23
RESTS WITH us.

Sooner or later there comes oppoei- ton 10 the many regulations that were instituted during the war because of conditions that prevailed then. and it is ohiy question of time before most of them disappear. Just now there is a protest being made against the contin- uance of the charge of S10 for the en- dorsement of passports by American con- suls because it places a tax upon the American who is travelling in other countries all out of proportion to the service and makes his expenses much greater than subjects of other countries The injustice of this is felt particularly hy business reoresentatives who are go- ng from country to country in European search of trade for this country
 To a large degree this expense comes as' matter of retaliation. It was a charge that was imposed upon every visitor to the United States during the Far. Consequently every other country whose subjects were obliged to pay that .sx quickly imposed a similar tax upon Americans when they went travelling. Though 1t was a war measure it has continued to be collected and at the same lgurs. This means that every time 9 rader goes from one country 70 another ie is s-taxed the s1e, an expense which
Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-23
Bible City Found

What is regarded by many scholari as the most valuable discovery which has yet been made by the archaeolo- gist in Palestine is the location of the site Of the city of Capernaum. Amone it's ruins have been found the remains of a synagogue believed to be the very one in which our Savior preached.
 For more than 1909 years the very site Of such an important Bible city as Capernaum has been in dispute. Is was thought that it stood at the north ern end of the Sea of Galilee at a place called Tell Hum, where there are ex- tensive ruins says an exchange.
 A systematic examination of these and the discovery of ancient docu- ments. now make it clear that this, in- deed, was ancient Capernaum.
 The ruins of a Jewish synagogue have been brought to light. Explorer say this temple stood there in the day.
 of Christ, and is the very building re ferred to in the Gospels. The position of the stones would indicate that i' was destroyed by an earthquake. 1t i' the belief of the excavators that thG whole edifice can be reconstructed.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-23

is not imposed upon similar agents from other countries because in the case of their country only nominal fees are charged. Thus because we continue to collect 8 big fee, the same practice is carried out against Americans to the disadvantage Of business seekers.
 This places the American at -disad- vantage. He is discriminated against because of our requirements and of course the trade has to bear the burden in trying to compete with that of other countries.
 It is to be inferred that if this coun- try changed It's policy and made only a slight charge that the other countries would do by ,the Americans as they do by the subjects of other countries, and in order to remove the heavy charges for the Americans it is only natural to expect that the first move should come from this direction. Being based upon OUT action relief will depend upon what is done here.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-23

three children's books a year and hay, them illustrated by some Of our bes children's artists than to fill a book shelf with dozen cheap books, who's, crude and gaudy illustrations canno help the child to fine appreciation.
 Among our treasupres of illustrated books We cout a Jessie Wilcox Srnitf Mother Goose" and postcard nlustra- tions in color of the same. by Wile- beck Le A1aireS We own an Aesop B. lustrated by Arthur R3ckham, and also one by Milo Winter. Kate Greeaaway. Walter Crane. Randolph Coldecott. E. Boyd Smith, William Heath Robinson. N. C. Wyetn and Maxwell Parrish are also names to conjure with in our household. and we hope to welcome several others. Of course. no one Equld want to own an Alice in Wonderland without the original Tenniel pictures, and what would Lear's Nonsense Book" bs without his own illustrations2
 Frederick R. Marvin, in his ~Excur- sions of Booklover" says this Blessed is the man who lives in hoiy fellowship with great and noble books His solitude IS Deopled with heavenly companionship. The highest delight pos sible to man is his Before him oper the Gates of Paradise" To parents !. given the supreme privilege of leading little children into a realization of this beatitude of literature
Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-23
THE TRANSPORTATION TAX.

Along with>the relief from other tax ation that will go into effect at the opening Of the new year will come the end of the transportation tax. In the gathering of federal revenue there was conceived the idea of putting a tax up- on those who travelled and the result has been that those who have gone any distance at all upon the railroads have been obliged to pay tax to the govern ment. This has been paid to the rail- roads and by them turned over to the government, and It may have been, along with the other increases that have been made, that the impression was gained that this was all part of the price of a ticket.
 Such, however, was not the case and the eight cents on the dollars that were collected of travellers by the roads were handed over to the government for fed eral expenses. Thus with the ending of that tax, and 1t will mean many mill Ions to those who ride, the railroads will not be the losers. They will con- tinue to get as much as they have been doing but they will nevertheless be col lectlng less from the public. It is in the federal revenue where a decrease will be shown Where it has been necessary to pay the railroad and Uncle Sam for taking a trip on the railroad during the past three years it will be only neces- sary to meet railroad requirements af- ter the first of the year What benefit will accrue to the people is indicated by the estimate at the time the tax reduc- tion was made that inc federal reyenue would be cut by s270.0O0O00 by the elimination of the transportation tax.
 That of course means much to some and little or nothing to others. If lev jed on each individual it would mean something less than threo dollars apiece to each person in the country.
 The removal of the tax, however, doesn't mean any relief to the railroads except such as will come through the ending of the work of collecting and accounting for it. That wiIL mean con siderable to the employees, but it is one way in which there is going to be felt the effects of the tax revision and the gradual elimination of war burdens. Nc one will be sorry to see it go.