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The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-03-17

In spite of the exceedingly bad
walking, a goodlv number of the
members of the Ladies' Society en-
joyed the hospility of Mrs st. john
last Tuesday afternoon. and spent
the hours sewing for the hospital in
India over which Miss Harriet Par
ker, perhaps the most talented doc
tor in the Congregational Foreign
Mission field. presides. Mrs Grubb
added to the pleasure of the after
noon by playing several selections,
and the hostess served sherbert, ma
caroons and waters.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-16
BRATTLEBORO PERSONAL

Mrs. ]. F. Fitzgerald returned yester-
day from Albany, \. Y. where she Wis
tied week with relatives.
Mrs. Ida Johnson will begin a weeks
vacation Monday from her work in the
IIolstein-Friesian association office.
Mr.. and Mrs. Max Lee Elliott of
Brookline, Mass, are guests of Miss
Alice Liscom of the Bonnyvale road.
Mrs Amy Moore will begin a weeks
vacation on Monday from her work in
the Holstein-Friesian association Office.
Miss Mabel Toombs. graduate of the
high school, went yesterday to Troy, \.
Y, to enter the training school for
nurses.
Miss Alice Mclaughlin of Bridgeport,
Conn, left for her home yesterday after
visiting her aunt, Mrs. George Burnett,
about a week.
Mrs Nellie Greenwood and daughter.
Miss Mildred Greenwood, went this
afternoon to Lebanon, n. H.. to visit
over the weekend with relatives.
DIR. Edward S. Niles of Newton,
Mass. who is spending several weeks at
the Brooks House, has been i'll and con-
fined to his bed the past two days.
Miss Ruth Bartlett, who finished work
today at the Holstein-F riesian associa-
ton office, will go next month to New
York to take up child welfare work
Mr.. and Mrs g. w Gilman, Mrs
Julia Saunders and Mrs. Fanny Smith
viii go tomorrow by automobile to Ar
gyle, n. Y, to spend the day at Mrs.
Saunderss' home.
Clifton II. Fox was operated upon last
night in the Memorial hospital for rup-
tured appendix. DIR. III. G. Stetson of
Greenfield was the surgeon. His con
dition is satisfactory today.
Robert Il. C0ombs was in Montpelier
Thursday to attend Il meeting of the dis
trict commissioners held at the office of
the state commissioner. Twelve of the
district commissioners We're present.
Mrs. H. II. Barden and daughter. Mrs
V0lney Hopkins, returned today from
West Rupert, where they visited two
weeks. Mr.. Hopkins accompanied them
here TO remain over the weekend.
Miss Marjorie White returned
Wednesday from a two-weekS' vacation
spent with her sister. Mrs. Charles Faw
cett, at GlenwOod, l.. /. Willard Faw-
cett, student at Dartmouth college, is eX-
pected here Monday to spend the day
with his grandmother, Mrs. Noyes
White, on his way to Hanover.
Mrs. c. L. Stickney press chairman of
the Vermont Federation of Women's
clubs, and Mrs. ii. II. Brown returned
last night from SwampscOtt. Mass,
where they attended three-day confer
ence of the New England Federation of
Women's clubs. The convention was
held at the New Ocean House and Mrs.
Stickney served on the committee of reso-
buttons.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-16
BRATTLEBORO PERSONAL

Miss Edna johnson of the Holstein-
Friesian offices is having a weeks yaca-
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Orlin Ellis have moved
this week to rooms on the top moor IN
the American building.
Miss sMarion Parkhurst leaves today
to spend a week with her cousin, Miss
Grace Doyle, in Chelsea.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick A. Calder
wood of Springfield. Mass, were visitors
in town several days last week.
Miss Irene Filion will resume work
Monday at the Holstein-Friesi asso-
citation, after two weeks vacation.
Miss Anne Murdoch will resume work
Monday mt the Holstein-Friesian asso-
citation, after two weeks vacation
Miss Katherine V. Owens of the Hol-
stein-Friesian offices is having two
weeks vacation, beginning Monday.
Miss L. S. Winchester of Greenwich,
Conn. came Tuesday to spend a week
with Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Winchester.
c. III. Ladue of the passenger agents
office of the Central Vermont railroad has
been in Brattleboro the past few days on
business.
Albert NJ. Bennett. who had been Wis
iting friends in Boston and vicinity sew
eral days, returned to his home on Cot
tage street last night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hazen z. Stockwell
and son returned last night by automo-
bile from a visit of 10 days with rela-
tives in Syracuse, n. Y.
f. 4. Erickson will go today to visit
his daughter. Mrs. w. c. Schorling, in
Springfield, Mass, and will attend the
Eastern States exposition.
Miss Ruth NJ Hale of the Holstein-
Friesian association is having a vaca-
Of Gtap
will spend at her home in East Dover.
Miss Vera DUDE left last evening for
Rochester, n. Y, where she will take
years course at the dental dispensary.
She was assistant until recently to DR..
+. X. Newell.
Mr.. and Mrs. /. w Adams and chill
dren, Raymond and Florence. have re-
turned from trip by automobile cover
ing 500 miles. visiting ut Albany, New
burgh and Millville
Mr.. and Mrs Ernest G. Gustafson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alison J. Dugan and Rey-
mold q. GuStafson went in Mr.. Gustaf-
sons automobile to Springfield, Mass,
today to hear Sousa's band.
Edward Bosworth and Porter Lord of
Barre were guests of Philip Wheeler last
evening. The young men stopped on their
way to Middletown, Conn. where they
will enter Wesleyan university.
Austin Plumb and family will move
Monday from their home on South Main
street TO Springfield, Mass. where they
have bought a home at the junction of
Dickinson street and Belmont avenue.
Miss Lucy Walbridge. who has been
acting as manager i'm the Office of the
New England Telephone * Telegraph
company in Bellows Falls the past week,
during the illness of the manager, will
return Monday.
Mr. and Mrs Louis A. Whitney. Jul
Jus T. Whitney and Miss Emily R.
Clapp of Brattleboro and Miss Bessie
the Whitney home. went to Worcester.
Mass, yesterday. returning last eve
ming. julius Whitney attended the
57th annual reunion of the 2sth Massa-
chusetts regiment.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-16
VERMONT BEAVER DOING WELL
NIiddIebury College May Try Them in
Batteu FOrest-To Poison Perch

MONTPELIER, Sept. l6.-The state
fish and game commissioner has re-
ceived a report from the beaver plant
ing i'll Bennington county last fall. and
it appeared that the experiment To re-
introduce these animals worked out
very well. Workings have been OBJ
served in three places within a radius
of a few miles of where the beavers
were put Three pairs of the animals
were obtained from New York state
and they are of course projected by the
state law. Mddlebury college expects
to try to introduce beaver in Battel
Forest providing the state experiment
proves to be entirely successful. They
will obtain beavers from New York
state.
The fish and game department is in
terested in an experiment to be con
Quoted by the Lake Wapanacki Trout
club in Hardwiek. which plans to kill
all the perch in the lake by the use of
poison Trout will be netted out first
and the pond restocked afterward. If
the experiment is successful. it may
be repeated by the department in other
waters. Two representatives of the de-
partment will be on hand while the
work is being done, and Commissioner
H. P. Sheldon will also witness the
work
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-16
GOVERNMENT ENDS ARGUMENT.
Injunction Case Adjourned to Monday
When Unions VIII Be Heard.

CHICAGO. Ill.,. Sept 16.-The gov
eminent completed its plea for an in
junction against the rail strikers yes
terdav and rested its case.
Judge James HI. Wilkerson adjourned
court until Monday, when attorneys for
b. NJ. Jewell. and John Scott, president
and secretary-treasurer, respectively, of
the railway employees department.
American Federation of Labor, will
open the defense.
The government rested on the
strength of some 600 affidavits charging
violence. intimidation and destruction
of property during the strike. No di-
rect evidence connecting any of the
union officials with the alleged con-
spiracy to destroy Interstate traffic
was given. but attorneys representing
Attorney General H. NJ. Daugherty,
contend that the existence of such wide
spread disorders indicates the unions
and their officials are responsible for it.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-16
SOUTH LONDONDERRY.
Teachers Have Helpful Conferenc

Although it has been customary to hold
teacher conferences on n school day. the
attendance of TIE teachers under the
supervision of Supt. Frank II. Adams
was almost perfect at a meeting held in
South Londonderry Saturday.
During the forenoon Supt. Adams ex-
planned the making of programs and
combining grades, according to the state
course of study, making of records in
registers, use of plan books and report
cards, having samples to choose from.
He also spoke of the standard school.
the school nurse and various other school
projects.
Dainty refreshments were served at
noon by Mrs. Adams and Mrs. Mallory
to the teachers from out of town.
In the afternoon session Miss Rich
ardson spoke interestingly about the
summer school at Burlington. Miss
Ruth Crossman gave a talk on drawing
and her outlines for the year. There
were discussions by the teachers about
the best way to teach reading and geog
raphy and on the various school prob
lens which are being found
Supt. Adams spoke on school manage
ment, reading an article, My Best
Teacher, from the boys standpoint.
Reading circles were planned, whereby
each teacher will buy one or more books
for professional reading during the year,
which will be exchanged.
At 3 o'clock the meeting was adj
journed. all present having found en-
enlargement and inspiration for the
coming years work.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-16

Mr.. ana Airs. V. p. Styles have moved
into one of the Bradford Landman
tenements.
Carl Fuller of Peacham was here to
attend the funeral of his sister, Mrs.
Ned Whitney.
Thompsonburg school did not begin
until Sept. - on account of the illness
of the teacher. Miss Lillian Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. Egbert Johnson and
party of Manchester. n. H, came Mon
day TO visit his brother, j. b. Johnson.
TripIets which recently arrived on
South Main street have been originally
.christened. Nothing. Something and
Anything" They are kittens.
The ballot clerks at the primaries
Tuesday were Homer Twitchell, Frank
Hulett. Rose Davis and Halle Thomp-
son. NV:n Hosley received the nomina-
ton for town representative.
at present there are 13S children in
the town attending school. A few in
the North village have not attended
vet. owing to the measles. In the
high school there are ii; South London
derry grammar, l6; primary "a; North
Londonderry grammar, Is; primary "a;
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-16

Thompsonburg, "A; Block, Is; -Four
Corners. Is. There were but three be-
ginners in the primary room this year.
Lillian Pearson. Dorothy Carley and
Alden Garfield Last year there were II.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-16
Wasting Time.

Have you the time about you?' he
asked as they sat on the moonlit beach.
why, yes she murmured, won are
wearing a wrist watch, aren't you p
Boston Transcript.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-16
GAMES TODAY.


American League
Boston at Chicago.
New York at St Louis.
Philadelphia at Cleveland.
Washington at Detroit.
National League.
St. Louis at Boston
Cincinnati at New York 1.-TWO games) d.
Chicago at Brooklyn 1.-TWO games).
Pittsburgh at Philadelphia 1.-TWO
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-16

With the exception of the British par
lament, the Swedish riksdag is the old
est of existing legislative bodies.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-16
Hereditary.

Doctor Alas that rich patient OF
yours any hereditary trouble?
Doctor B-Yes; | hope to hand his
case down to my sOn.-Boston Tran
script.
The New York herald., 1922-05-28
Italy Seen by a Journalist

people is truly pompous; it takes up
nearly one-fifth of the book. He has
corraled and correlated his data with
inimitable conciseness. Temptations
to irrelevancies he has avoided. He
tells. by way of illustrating the Ital-
ian lack of business conscience, the
story of the reputation. only the
other day. of the several million dol
lar contract with a Philadelphia coal
company" and then appends the
statement, in a submerged foot note,
that "since the war strict honesty
in international commerce has be-
come rarer in all countries" 1t is
a true observation but impertinent To
a book on Italy's immortality.
Hence the foot-note.
Throughout Mr.. Mowrer writes
with the compression of seasoned
journalist who has oft been obliged
to tell story in one column which
he could easily have expanded into
a magazine article, or defended d
principle in the poor space of the
editorial page which he could have
elaborated into a university thesis.
What effect H. G. Wells may have
on the writing of history cannon at
present be determined. But it
should be written by men of news
paper experience. Mr.. Thayer's
"Cavour," for example, is so wordy,
aggressive, distended.
The outstanding lesson of this
volume is the value of few level
heads. At any time before the '70s
of the nineteenth century Italy's
case looked hopeless. Politics, pow
erty and passion stalked abroad
like the three Furies of Greek
mythology by day and the Witches
of Shakesperean drama by night.
Each province or city was fighting
for its own hegemony. feeling ran
high, the rascals were numerous.
The New York herald., 1922-05-28

there. We don't do these things
right. The kernel of his advice ap-
pears to be to rely more on ones
spinal column. He exhorts us to
learn the technique of standing, sit
ting, &C., all over again. Mr.. Lee
has made such good job out of
standing that when he has been
working hard in the morning and
needs a bit. of exercise to freshen
him up, he goes outside and stands
still for twenty minutes.
We were amazed at Mr.. Lees de-
scrfption of his book as "the story
OF one mans experience in coming
through, to new kind of exercise
setting-up exercise taken without
getting up ten minutes early-an
exercise that can be taken in half a
minute without interrupting ones
work, while sitting at ones desk,
The New York herald., 1922-05-28
Invisible Exercise.

TT would strengthen our case, we
Il suppose, if we could point to the
books we have been reading this
week, and produce from them incon-
testable evidence of what is happen
ing to American literature. As it
happens. we cannot. The first book
we mean to mention falls outside the
range of the discussion altogether.
1t is a curious volume called Tn
visible Exercise" (Dutton), boGerald
Stanley Lee. Mr.. Lee at least pos
sesses the self-relianee which is
one of the characteristics of the
Great American Renaissance. He
abdlishes, completely to his own sat
isfaetion, the usefulness of all physi-
cal exercise beyond that which may
be obtained standing, sitting. walk
ing and while fast asleep.
Most Of US, according to Mr.. Lee,
are standing, sitting. walking and
sleeping ourselves into the grave
much faster than we need to go
The New York herald., 1922-05-28

other authors of the Elizabethan
Age. This same disregard can also
be observed in some of the master
pieces of our Flemish painters of
that period. Mirth. even very bois-
ferrous mirth. helped our ancestors,
as it did their children's grand
children in 1914 TO keep their spirits
up, in times of oppression; but
through all this merriment runs a
deep and melancholy vein of poetry
to which give tongue and wings the
chimes of our dear old carillons
which not only inspired Longfellow
but were also so ckarmingly depicted
by Mr.. William Gorham Rice. These
Belgians of old laughed loud and
made merry, but when the occasion
arose they knew how to stand firm
for their principles. Recent events
seem to show that TIE old spirit has
not quite died out yet.
/ most heartily congratulate Mr.
Atkinson on the possession of a
talent which has enabled him to en-
body the original spirit of the author
into the English version, and I wish
to express my great pleasure in
knowing that the thoughts and sem
timents so well expressed by De
Coster may now be appreciated by
American readers in the beautiful
form TIE writer has given them in
his own language.
The New York herald., 1922-05-28

let 15,OVO mas been gwen as the
total number of those who died in
battle for Italian unity and inde-
pendence. The losses in our own
civil war were 100000. And the en-
tire campaign was managed by four
men: It's outer visage was Victor
Emmanuel II, its brain was Cavour,
its right arm was Garibaldi, its soul
was MaZzini, from whose faith, said
Swinburne, Italy caught the faith
to save" That, it would seem, was
a campaign of really Tayloresque
efficiency, particularly for a nation
that is a half century behind in
plumbing. finds it difficult to exc
cute speed laws, and lives on maca-
roni where other nations consume
the juicy cuts Of corn feed beeves.
On page 1875. exactly midway, we
reach May %. 1915, the day on
which Italy declared war on Austria
Hungary. From then on the story,
never low-going, picks up like
roadster that has just emerged from
the crowd on the speedway. Mr..
Mowrer gives a detailed account OF
Italy's part in the war, and charges
the Caporetto debacle largely to the
rivalry between Gems. Cadorna and
Capello. He rehearses the peace
conference and dissects the per-
sonalities of Sonnino and Orlando
with the respect for minutiae that
smacks redolently of the seasoned
psycho-analyst. OF President Will
sons Fiume message he says it was
IAN Inconsistency, an insult and a
mistake" He devotes a luscious
chapter to "Fiume: Medieval
Medley" and contends that "the
raid of D'Annunzio and Major Reina
of the Second Grenadiers was a re-
volt of the best elements in Italy
against the bullying of Wilson and
the secret hostility of the Allies"
He presents a moving picture of the
The New York herald., 1922-05-28
The Whispering Gallery

while standing and talking in the
street, or lying back in an easy chair
taken without anybody's knowing
one is taking it, and eventually with
OFT even knowing it oneself"
1t was not clear to us, and is not
now. why anybody should be so Sc
cretive about exercise. Why should
we mind somebody's knowing that
We are exercising, and why of ali
things should we want to become -nn-
conscious of it ourself? Half the fun
we get out of playing tennis is in
the consciousness that We are play
ing tennis and not working at our
desk.
And it would be necessary, we
found, before getting the hang of
the thing, to give ourself a lot of
orders as we prepared to take our
exercise. Suppose we were about
to try few minutes of strenuous
sitting down. We should have to
say to ourself, II relax my neck in
order to let my head go up and for
ward in order to let my back widen
and lengthen in order to learn for
ward quarter of an inch," and a
lot of other things like that.
MIR. Lees exercises, we fear, are
The New York herald., 1922-05-28

labor revolution" that did not ma
terialize, and another of the reaction
that failed. In this connection he
writes: 1.-The fascist have filled
role unique in recent Italian history.
Similar in spirit to the more intoler-
ant elements of the American
Legion. not unlike in their methods
to the ancient and revived Ku K1ux
Klan, they have outdone BOTH" The
sole trouble with history as written
by the journalist lies in the fact
that he is bound to turn in copy that
makes a good story.
In his concluding chapter, entitled
Present Problems" Mr.. Mowrer
finds Italy suffering from ''lack Of
discipline, self-control and self-sac-
rifice." He sets up the Treaty OF
Rapallo-which did all but give Italy
a protectorate over the Little En-
tente, Rumania, Czecho- -Slovakia and
Jugo-S -Slavia-as the one unqualified
accomplishment of the postarmi-
stice period. Commercially, socially
and nationally, his picture of con-
temporary Italy could hardly be less
reassuring. Taxes are high, morale
is low; the people are rich, the Gov
ernment is poor; economy is impera-
tive, waste abounds: there is no
coal, and yet Italy is flirting with
the idea of becoming an industrial
nation; there is less chance than
ever for the emigrant, and yet the
population increases so rapidly that
within twenty years it may number
fifty million, millions that are to be
supported on a territory only half
as large as France and much less
fertile.
The New York herald., 1922-05-28
In Romantic Vein.

ME liked the spirit of Gilbert w.
w Gabriers |Jiminy'' (Doran). !.
although we found its flavor trifle
sugary. Perhaps that appears like
a contradiction. We mean that we
found enjoyment in Mr.. GabriePs
pursuit of romance, and in his ability
to make it bloom behind the shabby
brownstone front of a boarding
house in West Fifty fourth street.
He tells a pretty story of how
Benjamin Benvenuto Reni, a news
paper artist with painters ambi-
tions, and his bride, Jennie Raftery,
who writes verses for children, de-
termine to find Raphaels lost SON.
nets to his Margarita. They find
them and lose them, and, find them
again. There is a genuine feeling
for beautiful things in this book
which lifts it from the level of most
romantic stories that find their way
into print nowadays. Our realists.
on the whole, are lot better at their
job than our romanticists.
The New York herald., 1922-05-28

IMMORTAL ITALY. BY Edgar Ansel
Mowrer. D. Appleton & Co.
r ESS. than a century ago La
MARITIME in France and Me
buhr in Germany, the one a
poet Of undying fame the other a
historian of world renown, taunted
Italy with being the land of the
dead. In 1922 the staff correspond
ent of Chicago newspaper assem-
bles the facts and publishes them
under the caption of Immortal
Italy," 1t is not case of greater
political astuteness on the part of an
American journalist who sold what
he saw to a purveyor of news in
the biggest town on Lake Michigan.
1t is merely proof that you never
can tell.
Who could have foreseen, sixty
years ago, that the ITALY" of free
cities and Austrian provinces, fight
ing duchies and pin-headed dukes.
an obstinate church and an op-
pressed people, beggars, bigots and
bishops could be hammered into the
united Italy that went through the
trial by fire. at Caporetto and then
drowned the Austrians on the Piave
in June, 1918? No one; but keen
observer-which is the nearest syn
onym 1 know for a good newspaper
man-can write the history of it all.
And having done this, he is virtual
ly forced to work the adjective i'm
mortal" into the title of his stuiies
Mr.. Mowrer loves Italy and there
fore he chastens her. His catalogue
of the weaknesses of the Italian
The New York herald., 1922-05-28
The Ulenspiegel of De Coster
An Appreciation by
E. DE CARTIER DE MARCHIENNE,
Belgian Ambassador to the United States.

THE LEGEND OF Ell
AND LAMME GOLDZAK BY
Charles De Coster. Translated by
F. M. Atkinson. Doubleday. Page
& Co.
TT is indeed with the greatest
pleasure that 1 have read Mr..
Atkinson's sympathetic trans
lation OF De Coster's Legend of
Ulenspiegel," for which the English
speaking world will owe him a debt
of gratitude. This legend may be
considered one of the greatest Bel
gian Epics. It's "dramatis persona
are cast as characters of the six
teenth century, but in reality it is
TIE story of many centuries of suf-
fering which our liberty loving peo-
pie were compelled to endure in
their struggles to maintain their
rights against their Princes. "Ulen-
spieger' is the story of the indom-
liable resistance of the Belgian peo-
pie against all efforts to encroach
upon tEeir hard won communal pre-
negatives.
No doubt the actions and express
sions of De Coster's characters are
sometimes marked by a certain dis
regard for modern conventions and
trend of thougbt-but let US re-
member that such also was the case
in the works Of Shakespeare and Of