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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-04
Her Masters Voice.

Mrs. Twaddle was in state of excite
ment when the new music box arrived.
She had the instrument placed in the
same room as her pet parrot
The bird was a particularly sagaciOus
specimen of its kind, and to test it she
placed on the machine a record that she
had had especially made-Rocked in the
Cradle of the Deep. as sung by Mr.. Twad-
die in his approved drawing room manner.
At the very first note Polly opened her
eyes in surprise and then few to her
perch, where she rocked herself to and fro
in speeches. and deep establishment while
the machine ground out the rest of the
tune.
There, Polly" asked Mrs Twaddle,
when the song had come to an end, what
do you think of that?"
Holy smokes" shrieked the bird, with
her head on one side, and winking wick
edly, We've got the old man boxed up
this time, all right !"-Relioboth Sunday
Herald.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-04
DOES NOT HAVE TO
TAKE PHYSIC
'Fruit-a-tiVGS" Brought
Complete Relief
AsHFORD. NEW YoRF

ASHFORD, New YORK.
I tried several kinds of physic for
over three years and, ofcourse, while
took it every night my bowels would
move; but as soon as l stopped
taking physic, would be Constipa-
ted and would have Piles terribly.
/ bought one box of "Fruit-a-t ives"
and took them. Now I am not
troubled any more with Constipation
or Piles. "Fruit-a-tives" or Fruit Laxo
Tablets" left no after-ef1ects and now 1
do not have to use physic".
Mrs. JOHN CAPOZZI.
SOC a box, 6 for s.. 30, trial size 25c.
At dealers or from FRUIT-A-TIVES
Limit4d, OGDENSBURG. NY.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-04

Speaking of winter sports, we note
in the Keene Sentinel of April L the
following: Two local sportsmen tried
their luck with hook and line this
morning. One wore a fur coat and both
wished they had snowshoes. The ice
was thick and the worms in the can
froze." No mention is made of a single
nibble.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-04
TO THE SUBSCRIBERS

It is the aim of the management to assure
efficient service in the delivery of the paper
each night, and it solicits the cooperation of
subscribers to that end. Prompt reports should
be given of each failure to receive the paper
on the morning following the omission, in
person, by telephone postal card, thus en-
abling the cause of the error to be promptly
and accurately discovered and the proper rem
edy. Immediately applied. 1t is only by this
method that the publisher can secure the de-
sired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-04
A Pulling Question.

Inquisitive Young Daughter-Papa
what do you do all day long at the Office
Father mot paying much attention to
the question, as he is busy reading the
evening paper)-Oh, nothing.
Daughter mot easily discouraged
Well, how do you know when you are
through Illinois Life Bulletin.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-04

trusted friends among the intellectual
and moral elite of most of the nations
of Europe and of Asia. For many years
American universities have welcomed
him as a lecturer on the larger aspects
of international relations. and business
men and captains of industry have
trusted him with large sums to be used
in promoting philanthropy, education
and religion.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-04
Hollis. Diseoverer.
NASHUA Telegraph. J

May we NOT present the following
clipping from the Lowell Citizen, which
might otherwise fail to reach the eye
of the New Hampshire commission on
divorce law legislation:
IF you want to get rid of your wife
easily, just make break for Bulgaria.
The peasant republic of the Balkans
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-04


Tng the angeus like
the when the and passion the str
toll trade watch the procession the human parade sit the
you'll
old
audit untold bed
sunny
win
a
they'll
by their knitting pushing the
signing neh Were glad that
striving DONE
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-04

German high official says, 1.-THE
reparation commissions decision of
March 81 disappointed us most griey-
ously." Who won the war, anyway?
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-04
Published Last Saturday.

Boston Transcript
MaSons and plastercrs in Burlington,
VT, have voluntarily reduced their
wages. Correct. This is not an April
fool joke.)
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-04

As long as Henry Ford and John D.
don't go into partnership the poor mo-
tOrist can worry along somehow.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-04

The proposed establishment of recrea-
ton ships just outside the three-mile
limit is in keeping with the demand for
wild life sanetuaries.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-04

another war, we send detachment of
our home-brew artists among the enemy
with good supply of their wares.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-04
One Year Ago Today.

New York assembly refused to unseat
two Socialist members.
The governor of New York signed the
prohibition enforcement laws.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-04

The visible supply of soft coal may
last longer than if the textile mills of
New England were all running full
time
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-04

Being son and heir of a Siamese twin
seems to have its complications.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-04

For a parallel to the coal strike the
ice men should strike next winter.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-04

The cup that cheers often does q
thorough job nowadays; it embalms.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-04

A Kansas newspaper comes forward
with the suggestion that in event of
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-04

Don't forget that handful of crumbs
or seeds for the birds.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-04
Poor Henry

Poor Henry.
Heck-Do you play any instrument?
Peck (sadIy)-Second fiddle at home
Boston Transcript
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-04

Entered in the postofie at Brattleboro a.
second class matter.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-04

Copyright by George Matthew Adams
New-York tribune., 1922-08-07
anne. military chiefta;ns

came, military chieftains, who
naturally wanted no spotlight on
their blunders, became much alive to
the danger of communicating in
formation to the enemy"
Even today much of the news that
comes from abroad is "bleached." 1t
is not always easy for the most wary
to find the way to truth. 1t is still
the European habit to confuse facts
and opinion and rely on interpreta-
tions rather than on the news itself.
No public likes long and prosy docu~
ments. 1t would have its pabulum
predigested, but in predigestior
Turks imminent danger Of the loss of
the flavor of truth.
No particular remedy is suggest
ed. Probably there is none except
the possession of great stores of in
formation and a clear perception
and application of the principle that
truth coheres, while falsehood sell
dom does.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-07
Busitis

Apparently Mayor Hylan never
will rest content till motor buses
have driven trolley cars out of ex-
lstence everywhere. How he hates
the great invention Of Sprague,!
When Chicago introduces busses
he sends a fervent message of con-
graduation to William Hale Thomp-
son. When Buffalo plans a bus line
he dispatches the same sort of tele-
gram, Which, unhappily, arrives Just
when Buffalo has learned that she
lacks legal right to install the new
vehicles.
Comparatively few communica-
tlons are given out at the City Hall
which do not contain f1attering
reference to bus lines and the per-
feet work they will do If they are en-
couraged to multiply.
Even in his Endorsement of Mr.
Hearst as candidate for Governor
the Mayor intimates that if Mr.,
Hearst is elected bus lines will an
pear as if by magic on every street
in the city, while the baffled trolley
cars will be banished to the Junk
heap.
Only an unsympathetic Transit
Commission and an inactive Legis-
lature prevent the tearing UP of
trolley tracks wherever they have
been put down and the replacement
of the cars that once sped over them
by the vast carryalls that auto
mobilists find it so difficult to drive
around when they want to make bet
ter time than three miles an hour.
Mr.. Hylan is not now engaged in
the business Of the manufacture and
sale of motor busses. But he an
parently remembers his Black Dia-
mond days. If he could be made the
czar of the bus business as JUDGE
Lands, Will Hays and Augustus
Thomas are, respectively. of the
baseball, "movie" and theatrical
businesses he might forget his DUTY
to hold Office.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-07
Some Hope of Settlement

There is reason for encouragement
: in the offer of the Illinois coal opera
tors to reopen the mines on the wage
scale which expired on April l of
this year. 1t is true that the offer is
only for local settlement, and thus
goes against the principle laid down
in Mr.. Harding's plan, that the prob
lem must be considered as national
rather than regional. So, also, is it
clear that in addressing the offer to
Mr.. Harrington, head of the Illinois
coal miners union, who is an avowed
opponent of John L. Lewis, president
OF the United Mine Workers of
America, the operators hope to profit
by the difference of opinion between
these two labor leaders. Lewis has
long been partisan to national set
tlement, while harrington holds
other views.
But the Importance of the offer
lies in the fact that one group Of op-
orators at least is ready to make
concessions to the miners for the
sake of resuming operations. These
concessions, it is true, are to be only
temporary. But in settlement Of
the strike there are necessarily two
major problems. The first is the re-
sumption of work; the second is the
readjustment of conditions. In or
der to resume there must be tenn
porary working basis, accepted while
the permanent readjustment is being
planned.
The public, of course, is primarily
interested in the resumption of min
ing. That the statms quo as of be-
fore the strike should be resumed
pending a permanent settlement by a
commission such as the President
proposed seems only logical. The
key to this resumption is the wage
question.
What one regional group of opera
tors can do can be done by others.
There has been too much rigidity
shown by both sides up to date.
Each has cherished the belief that
by making no concessions it might
win. But in a deadlock such as the
present there must be give and take.
Unable to adjust differences directly,
both sides must submit to a settle
ment by an impartial third person
and pay the penalty for their obsti-
macy and selfshness.
A final solution Of the coal prob
lem must be national. This the Ad-
ministration fully realizes. But
meantime other things can be done.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-07
What France Owes and Is Owed

The French government owes us
eighteen billion francs. To other
nations she owes seventeen billion
francs, making her total foreign
debt thirty-five billion francs. For
reparation Of the devastated regions
she has advanced for the account Of
Germany eleven billion francs. Be-
sides this her internal debt, exclud-
ing the advance to Germany, is 221
billion francs. Her total debt thus
is 267 billion francs.
The French government In turn
is owed by foreign governments, ex-
elusive of Germany, fifteen and a
half billion francs. The present
value Of her share of the repara-
tions, unscaled, due her from Ger
many is forty billion francs. This
means that her total credits are
nearly ffty-six billion francs.
Of these credits five and a half
billions due from Russia are now
worthless and forty billion francs
are in her claim against Germany.
These two items comprise all but
ten and half billions of the sums
due her. Only as these credits are
good will her taxpayers be relieved
of meeting all her war loans and
other indebtedness.
1t is now proposed to scale down
the reparations, which would fur
ther increase Frances deficit. So
the French resist desperately all at
tempts to do SO and are keenly in
terested in the reduction of the
sums they owe to the British and
to ourselves. Even with the repara-
tions uncut the French taxpayers
must pay debt charges amounting
to about twelve billion francs yearly,
not to mention amortization.
For being disturbed about this
state of affairs and for seeking to
preserve intact as many of her as
sets as possible France is assailed
by Germany's friends as a greedy
marplot.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-07
From Russia's Heart

"Your help" writes Maxim Gorky
to the American Relief Administra-
tion in words of noble acknowledge
ment, will be inscribed in history as
unique and gigantic achievement,
worthy of the greatest glory, and
will long remain in the memory Of
millions of Russian children saved
from death by you"
This testimonial, so simply yet 50
feelingly expressed, is calculated to
suffuse American eyes. Truly, it is
a wonderful thing to hear such
praise and to believe it is sincerely
meant. 1t revives faith that Amer
lea has mission and strengthens
confidence that our people in these
later days are not wholly deaf to it's
call. Whatever the future has in
store for Russia, it will be more diff
cult to persuade her vast population
that aliens are always to be feared
Nt'AA oiWoSS So3Q dlu SIuSt. S1JST
all, it is the hand held out to help
that contributes to mankind's recon-
ciliation rather than the brain of the
world statesman, however great is
his assistance.
The cause Of Russia's troubles has
not been removed. She is still in the
grip Of system that dries up the
breasts Of national plenty. Another
famine may be hatched. But we
cannot, even if we would, reorganize
her life and establish better basis.
This she must do herself. But we
have been able to ameliorate, even
| though We could not cure.
Mr.. Hoover and his associates
have shown themselves Americans
of whom the nation may we'll be
proud. In the remote villages of the
Volga, on the slopes of the Urals and
on the steppes Of the Caspian the
American flag has become loved and
revered. Nothing is more beautiful
in history than is the picture of the
moujik waiting, waiting, waiting,
and then rising to exclaim: "They
come! The Americans come!" 49,
New-York tribune., 1922-08-07
Traffic Card Day

The new traffic warning cards
which are expected to be mutually
helpful to motorists and to the Po-
lice Department are effective to-day.
If any automobile owner in the city
has failed to provide himself with
one he had better make call at the
nearest police station forthwith.
Upon these cards are to be entered
such minor traffic violations as the
possessor may commit. The nota-
ton may save him from arrest or a
summons, in the discretion of the
traffic officer. AS marked-up card
will be a bad certificate for a driver
to carry around with him, it will paw
all drivers to learn the Instructions
to the police as to what are the
minor offenses that call for repri-
mand.
Prominent among them are those
relating to the obstruction of traffic.
me rule that cars shall not stand
crosswise on Broadway and Fifth
Avenue below Fifty-ninth Street will
assist IN a measure to unclog those
main thoroughfares. 1t might not
be going too far to limit all stops on
Fifth Avenue and not to permit cars.
even with an occupant ostensibly
waiting for somebody, to stay many
minutes in one place. Keep them
moving. Some day parking spaces
Will have to be found and an ef-
fective parking system devised. or
congestion, in spite of the most ex-
cellent traffic rules and all willing
ness to observe them, will become in.
tolerable.
pedestrians are not required to
take out traffic warning cards. al
though they might well be.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-07
Rainbow Bridges

Immediately following Commits
sioner Whalen's announcement Of a
plan to build a new bridge over the
East River Murray Hubert, Presi-
dent of the Board of Aldermen, sup
gested a bridge across the Sound
from the Bronx to Whitestone.
The rainbow bridge, as every child
KNOWS, has pot of gold just under
lts abutments. Truly these are rain
bow bridges for Tammany Hall
That organization would doubtless
be glad to roof for percentage the
East River with bridges from ths
Battery to He'll Gate.
Its members seem to have q rooted
objection to tunnels, for tunnels are
cheaper to build, and, what is still
more important, there is need of far
less ground at either end. Tunnel
approaches are under streets, and
there is scant opportunity for vast
real estate operations in the con-
domination and purchase of land.
Commissioner Whalen, who dis
courses learnedly on the inadvisabil-
lty OF tunnel, quotes anonymous
engineers, but makes no direct quo-
tatlon from any member of that pro-
fession. Meanwhile vehicular tun-
mel IS being built under the North
River, and the ablest engineers are
convinced that there will be no diff
Guilty in disposing of the gases.
But tunnel would afford less op-
portunity for speculation, and, incl
dentaily, If one We're to be decided
upon it would have to be built under
New-York tribune., 1922-08-07
Bleaching the News

Arthur 8. Draper, in his discus
sion Of the problems which face the
foreign correspondent as he tries to
give his readers material on which
\ to base intelligent opinion particu-
arly spoke Of the practice known as
F"bleaching the news"
Propaganda, in the sense in which
the term is now used, is a new art,
but quickly all governments have
become more or less skilled in it.
The line between a deliberate pur-
pose to color news and legitimate
publicity not being susceptible of
exact demarcation, all governments
suddenly realized the advantage
Germany had in her controlled pub
iicity. and hastened to initiate the
German method. The countries least
afflicted were Great Britain and the
United States, where the press has
behind it long tradition of indie
pendence and even of hostility to an
established regime, whatever it is;
but this was not because of any lack
Of desire on the part Of the British
and American administrators to ex-
ercise control. In the name Of
morale the crimes Of mendacity are
committed and justified.
J Bismarck, who venomously hated
the press, was the first important
statesman to recognize that the
Ipress was an unused weapon. When
This direct censorship broke down he
resorted to the practice Of giving
news preference to tanned news men.
In his famous conference with Won
Moltke and Won Room he brought on
the Franco-Prussian War by doc
toring" a press dispatch.
The next step was supervision of
general Notwithstanding agencies.
individual newspapers found it diff
cult, even though free of control, to
stem the torrent. Newspaper men,
of course, knew what it meant when
the message came marked Reuter-,
.or Wolff, OF Havas, but their readers
did pot. Finally, when the war
New-York tribune., 1922-08-07
The Lusitania Claims

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: AS chairman of the Lusitania
claimants committee | cannot, after
reading your two editorials on the
Lusitania matter in The Tribune, is
sues of July 1 and August /, 1922, re-
frain from writing you and congratu-
lating you on the intelligent insight
which you show in the matter and the
fearlessness with which you show that
the preferring Of the German claims
over the American claims would be un-
just. There has been a great "holler"
raised in behalf Of the Germans about
confscation. AS a matter Of fact, no
confscation has been proposed at all.
In the treaty of Berlin, between the
United States and Germany, Section
s. the two countries agree that the
alien property money should be held
by che United States until such time
as Germany made suitable provision
for the satisfaction Of claims of
Americans against Germany. As a
matter Of fact, it should be plain to
any one that Germany, by virtue of Its
power of eminent domain, is taking
property Of these citizens and pledg-
ing it for public purpose with the
United States and promising in the
same treaty to reimburse its own citi-
zens for any funds so taken.
Where is the oonfscation in this ?
Why, in the Winslow bill, should we
assume apparently to violate the let
ter and spirit of the Berlin treaty and
prefer the claims of the Germans over
claims Of Americans against funds
specifically pledged by the German
government under the authority of its
Constitution and laws?
The Underwood bill would seem to
provide reasonable, speedy and ac-
curate method for arriving at the
amount Of the American claims and
satisfying them out OF the alien prop
erty funds, if Germany does not in tn
mean time pay them. AS has been
many times pointed out, the Lusitania
outrage is sui generis. Why should
the members of an international tri
bunal haggle around the table over
what the value in dollars is of the
life of an American man. woman or
child? Yet US fix that value by our
own commission without quibbling as
to the earning power or condition of
health of the slain victims, and with
some regard to the enormity Of the
crime perpetrated against civilization.
GEO. WHITEFIELD BELTS JR.
Chairman of Lusitania Claimants
Committee.
New York, Aug. a, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-07
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

20 the Editor or The Tribune.
Sir: The reported suggestion of
John S. Sumner, of the New York So
ciety for the Suppression Of Vice, that
the organization Of book publishers is
interested in plan for prejudging
the morals Of all new books or in the
setting up sort of literary dictator
should have prompt and emphatic
refutation.
The National Association Of Book
Publishers Is not interested in so
preposterous an idea, has not been
considering such an idea, and so far
as the opinions Of individual pub
fishers are known, the proposal out
lined by Mr.. Sumner is the last thing
they would consider, no matter how
unsatisfactory censorship by magis-
trate's decision may seem as conducted
to-day.
A short time ago the president of
the Authors League asked the Pub
lishers' Association if it would appoint
representatives to a small conference
which was to see whether the present
censorship confusion could be in any
way clarified. No specific idea was to
have been discussed nor were this COM
mittee to be asked to bring out specific
recommendations when they did get to,
gether after vacations. That such q
group would discuss seriously the pre-
judging of current literature through
controlling committee ON ethics
New-York tribune., 1922-08-07
The Missing Sea Serpent

Here it is the last month OF sum-
mer and the arrival of the sea ser
pent has not yet been reported. Are
the press correspondents so taken up
with the wonders on the beaches
that they have no time to give to the
wonders of the deep?
We can i'll afford to lose touch
with the sea serpent. Those who are
Tree from narrow skepticism well
come his appearance as promise of
the time when ne will be captured
and thumb-printed. The giant octo-
pus-long considered a foracastle
superstition-is now known to hold
his dreadful court in the oceans
black depths. May not serpent
dispute with the huge squid the lord
ship of the ocean'a lower levels? A