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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-01-09
Legal Ethics in Vermont
(Springfeld Republican,

AfFA S@N
People outside Vermont may wonder
what legal ethics in that state amounts
to, now that the Vermont Bar a~ssOcia-
ton has refused by a vote of 81 to 81
10 disbar former Gov. Horace +. Ora
ham. The association turned down the
recommendation of its own committee
on professional conduct, which had con-
cluded that the conviction of the for
mer governor ON the charge of stealing
$4,000 from the state, while he was
state auditor, was sufficient proof that
he was not morally TIT to invite the o
hdence of clients in the practice of the
law. Most laymen viii think that if a
lawyer would pilfer a state treasury
placed under his protection, he might
plumber a private estate placed in his
care.
But the Vermont Bar association finds
ground for being easy with the former
governor. If that grOand is the pardon
not help the legal profession in Vermont.
The pardon did not efface the stain from
Graham character in the practice of
law.
! 1t is a pity if the decision reached
must stand as the highest standard of
ethics in the commonwealth for there
can be no doubt that the best local rep
resentatives Of the profession would re-
coil from the differences sure to be drawn
elsewhere concerning the Vermont bar.
No one could imagine George f. Ed
muAds. or +. J.. Phelps. or Luke Poland
indorsing the action that has been
taken.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-01-09

to do, in the interest of agriculture, what
groups of congressman have often done
before with regard TO other economic or
sectional interests. They maintain that
they were driven to this action because
congress as a whole had ignored agri-
culture, most vital of American indus
tries and furthermore, that all their acts
have been open and above-board-no Sc
cret sessions or caucuses or undue coer-
cion or other paraphernalia of villainous
conspiracy.
1t does look as if there isn't any way
to keep groups Of legislators from doing
what this group has done, unless it is by
giving them what they want, or at least
enough of it TO lure them back into con-
gressional regularity.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-01-09
MONDAY, JANUARY o, 1922.
Is THE KEYSTONE sLIPPINGq

The death of Senator Penrose, follow
ing 50 closely upon the demise of Penn
sylvania's other great Republican leader,
Senator Knox, leaves the Keystone state
in a peculiar position, politically. Only
one other staunch G. o. Z. defender of
the faith remains, Gov. SprOul.
\ few years ago these three men, Pen
rose. Knox and Sproul although often diff
fering widely on public issues, formed a
triumvirate whose political influence was
tremendous, both nationally and state
wide. For years the trio fought, and
fought successfully, the Ware brothers of
Philadelphia, who controlled an element
n politics regarded by the better class of
citizens as pernicious. Now that SprOul
is the sole defender of the faith, as it
we're. in his home state, the question a
rises whether he will be able. alone and
unaided. to hold the G. o. Z. in line.
In this connection it was noted last
week with a degree of apprehension by
he Republican rank and file in Pennsyl-
rania. that Sproul might go to the SEN
ate, taking Penrose's seat. To have done
this. it would have been necessary for
him to have resigned as governor, thus
removing himself from the helm of state
affairs. and leaving a breach in the G. O.
p. state defences, which never were any
200 formidable. His resignation as COVER
nor would have left the state wide open
to the Wares.
Realizing the possibilities of such a
situation, Gov. Sproul wisely has decided
10 remain at Harrisburg, and forego the
distinction of being United States Sena-
tor. for a time at least. He has definitely
announced that if he goes to the senate,
it will be after regular nomination and
election. SO, for the present, Pennsyl-
gania is safe to the g. o. Z.
Although Philadelphia does not con
sroI the state. the influence of the Wares,
whether for good or evil, extends far be
vond the city limits. The situation later
at election time, when Sproul doubtless
will be chosen senator, will be watched
with interest, not only by Pennsylvania
Republicans, but by politicians through
out the country. For Pennsylvania, be.
ing truly the keystone state, yields q
powerful force nationally. Whatever
Pennsylvania does is always of nation
wide interest and Importance.
Gov. Sproul has only a few months in
which to groom some worthy and capable
Republicans as successors not only tt
himself. but also to Penrose and Knox
and for the most part he has but a
material with which to work. He has {
hard task, if the keystone G. o. p. mach
inc is to continue to function.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-01-09
The Bar and MIR. Graham
(Rutland News)

The vote Of the Vermont Bar associa.
ton, meeting at Montpelier recently
not to accept the recommendation of Its
committee that former Governor Ora
ham be disbarred from the practice of
law viii meet with much criticism, ad-
verse and friendly.
Without a doubt Mr.. Graham was one
of the ablest governors Nermont has
ever had. In all probability he would
have succeeded Senator Dillingham; at
W Washington had he not made Il mSsteU
while he was state auditor. And that
his act in taking of the states money
with the probable intention of paying it
back at h earliest possible moment
perhaps as much the fault of the
system -. as AttoTneN-W. Il. &. Stick
neY declared at the meeting, as of Mr.
Graham personally, is very evident and
was the practice of his predecessors.
The attorneys meeting at Montpelier
represent the best that is in the state
From their experience, their education
and their close acknowledge of the case
at hand they are the most able to Judge
of the fitness of permitting MIR. Graham
TO practice law in the state. How evenly
opinion in the matter was divided is
shown in the vote of the committee oil
professional conduct, three to two fol
disbarment~and the vote of the associa
tion 81 to 81 against disbarment.
The trend of justice in this country is
more and more toward giving a man Z
nance. Because he has erred, is there
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-01-09

enthusiasts to do was to organize for
an attack on the legislature.
"Gou can put over almost anything
in that way said the executive.
So it would seem. We have had things
put over us so much and so long that
people are beginning to think that is
the only way to get things done-from
building a bridge or a schoolhouse to f.
n~ancing a hard-surface road enterprise
that might run into fifteen or twenty
millions.
Send up men pledged to get this "
able thing, say the g~raD-baggers, and
the thing is done, and the worst of it
il they are generally right.
The Anti tuberculosis people car get
it done if they set out. All they need
is for the newspapers to publish some
Complimentary references to their work,
then the grabbers should give some at
tcntiou to a few leading senators and
representatives in due time. If it, a
! good thing-and it is-these men will
ch~eerfully 90 to Montpelier absolutely
pledged to vote for a state appropriation
for the care of tubcrcular patients, for
the support of the preventorium and for
the major portion of the association :
EXPENSES.
| The Herald simply points this out Ia
| show how these things are lone and
how easy it is to lay the foundation for
! q dollar state tax.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-01-09
APPLE WOOD Is VALUABLE
One Firm Alone Uses One Million Feet
of Lumber a Year

Tt will seem incredible to the layman
that apple wood has considerable value
as lumber. that it j. actually cut for
such. and that one firm alone uses up
ward of 100000 feet a year.
The native wild apple, in particular. is
a tree with sterling qualities of wood.
The wood is tough. hard. strong. The
tree itself grows to great age. The crafts
man in wood finds apple wood one of the
very best for special purposes. one of
which Is tool handles. Tn tool handle
market is the one the farmer shipping an
pie lumber caters TO.
Apple lumber is sold by the cord. The
usual specifications stipulate sound logs
at least II inches through. Right here,
the limited production of apple lumber
is limited at. Old apple trees very often
ave unsound trunks. Under the most
favorable and exceptional conditions.
only a few logs can be obtained from Il
single tree.
The farmer consequently sells apple
lumber in m incidental. occasional way.
Market prices vary. One farmer has
marketed apple lumber within the last
year for SO a cord. delivered to mill.
The makers of tool handles. however.
are not the only buyers of apple wood.
In some ways the other open market in
terestS most farmers. The apple tree
trunk fitted mp into large chunks makes
magnificent fireplace wood.
There is life and last in it,. as the
farm family puts it. There is a New
Hampshire farm which for years has
shipped apple fireplace fuel for two Bos-
ton hotels. Sold for fuel. apple lumber
brings less than for tool handles. but the
qualifications are not nearly so hard to
meet. Many an old trunk. useless for
the mill, is tiptop for the 6replace-Sci-
entific American.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-01-09

l was setting on Mary Weaknesses
frunt steps tawking to her, and so was
Puds SimpkinS, and | was making her
laff and Pubs wasent. and Pubs sed. Watts
YOU think. Mary, | Greemed about YOU
last mite, / dreemed you was a angel.
O Puds how PERFECTLY lovely, sed Mary
Watkins.
Ne thinking, Heck. darn him. Ana 1
sed. Well / wouldent want enybody
to dream | was q angel. If you ever
saw angels IN picktures you know low
they go GROUND. don't you? / Sed.
AIeening with nuthing On but wings,
and Mary Watkins sed. Pubs Simkns.
I'm going rite in the house.
WITCH she started to do, and Pubs
.sed. Hay. wait a minnit, hay, he's crazy,
| didn't dreem You locked like the rest of
the angels, | dreemed you was all dressed
up in a long fur coat and everything.
That's different, that's all rite, sed
Mary Watkins setting down agen, and
| sed. Well then how did he know you
was an angel if you wasent dressed like
a angel?
Yes. how could you tell | was a angel?
sed Mary Watkins starting to get up
agen.
On account of your bewtifH face. |
knew. rite away nobody but a angel could
have sutch a bewtifl face, you couldent
fool me, sed Pubs.
q Pubs wat a nice dreeul, sed Mary
Watkins staying down.
Me thinking. Aw heck. darn that guy.
And Mary Watkins kepp on locking
at Pubs as if she thawt he was about
twice as wonderful as me. and prittv
soon | got up and went home diskusted.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-01-09
Today Events

Fifty years ago today died Gen. Henry
w. IIalleck, famous Civil wal com
mander.
The International Seamen's Union Of
America will begin its silver jubilee con
ventiOn in Chicago today.
Governor Len Small of Illinois is to
be placed on trial at Waukegan today
under an indictment charging him with
conspiracy.
The annual convention and exposition
of the National Shoe Retailers Assoeia-
tion is to be opened in Chicago today
and. continued through the ween.
The executive committee of the Amer,
lean Bar Association. and the National
Conference for Uniformity of State
Laws will begin a four-day meeting to
day at Tampa.
The second trial of Roscoe C. Ar
buckle, motion-picture comedian, on &
charge of m~anslaughter growing out o
the death of Miss Virginia Rappe, il
scheduled to begin in San Francisco to
day.
The largest delegation of Scotch bust
ness men ever to visit America is du'
to arrive in New York today to cOnve.
postwar greetings from Scotland to tn
United States and Canada.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-01-09
The Village Government at Bellows Falls.
Springfield Reporter.)


Bellows Falls has Il new form of civil
strife on its hands with the papermaker
strikers and their SympathiZers planning
to get possession of the village government
at the next annual meeting the 23d of
this month, and another part of the COM
munity apparently out for a n%On-parti-
san board of trustees. One of the caHdi-
dates suggested for the new board is j. Il.
Byrne. well known in Springfield and in
the state generally as an organizer of the
Order of Moose. There is also mixed up
in the trouble religious prejudice and sus-
picion for it is reported, on the one hand
that the Catholics want to rule and on
the other, that Protestants wish TO doni-
nate in municipal affairs, while the Irish
element of the population is credited with
political Vaccinations extending to every
office in sight. Evidently what they need
in Bellows Falls is a board of trustees
with the grit and determination, the sense
and the disposition TO do the right thing
without fear or favor of any clique or
faction. Then whoever else is displeased,
the trustees can nave what satisfaction
there is in the answer of a clear con
science.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-01-09
Another State Baby.
CRutland HeIaIdT

In connection with the annual state
ment and budget of the Vermont Anti
tuberculosis association appears the
following paragraph:
"Our original plan was to demonstrate
he yalue of this work by actually do
ing it, in hopes that as a result the leg
~islature of 1923 would see fit TO provide
FOL such work under state auspices. To
allow the work to peter out the last
ew months would considerably hurt our
chances with the legislature. Moreover,
am sure the people of Vermont want
20 support all of our work.
There is a tone about the conclusion
of this paragraph that is most illumi-
mating. Because the work of fighting
tuberculosis is a good and laudable
work. because it is getting results-sup-
orted more or less directly by eontri-
buttons from the public-the directors
hereof with some confidence propose to
saddle the cost on the public treasury of
he state. knowing full well that it
reeds but a comprehensive and concen-
rated effort to ''put it over',.
Governor Hartness voiced this inter
sting belief at the somewhat celebrated
Gateway road meeting IN Rutland when
he told the somewhat astounded repre-
sentatives from this city and elsewhere
that, Judging from his experience and
observations, the thing for the Gateway
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-01-09
The Grateful Customer

II am going 5outh for the winter.
Before leaving | want to thank YOU so
much for making 100000 in profits on
bonds for me this year." said a wealthy
lady client of a bond house to the senior
partner.
She went on effusiyely. Furthermore,
! want 70 qhpw nv appreciation by Civ
ing you a present.
That is not ut all necessary, Mrs
You can thank the bond market for your
profits said the broker.
THAT may be. but it was your advice
and work that produced the profits and
/ must be permitted to show my appre-
CATION she replied.
The bond man decided to let it go at
that and bowed her out of the office.
4 parcel was on his desk when he
reached the Office next day. 1t contained
n lurid necktie together with the lady's
card.-Wan Street Journal.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-01-09
Somebody's Daughter

She amt no goo- at homework, and she
makes a botch of cookin'.
She idles every minute if she thinks her
Ma amt lookin'.
Her sewin's somethin' awful and her
darnin's close behind it.
She even dropped the baby when l asked
her for TO mind il.
And when I. scoId Eeri Goodness grief.
you'd think She was a queen.
Since she had her picture printed in that
movie magazine!
st first We all was tickled. we thought il
such an honor
To have EN- print her picture all that
glory thrust upo her
Her hairs like Mary pickford's. and it
curls around her head so
You'd think rs thev we're sisters why,
the editor be said 50
But it's simply gone and spoiled her, il
you get inst what | mean.
A-Drintin' of her picture in that movie
Magazine.
She's waiting. so she tells me. for a let
ter she's expectin',
She sent along her address SOS there'd
be no misdirectin':
But she's gettin' out of patience, and she
spends her time in giummin'
Cause her chance to be an actress takes
so precious long in comm:
Meantime she's fit for nothin' 'cept To
talk about the screen
Since she had her picture printed in that
movie magazineL
Arthur II. Folwell in Leslie's.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-01-09
In the Days News

DIR. Charles II. Haskins, the new pres
ident of the American Historical AsSoci-
alton, has been dean of the Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard
since 1908. He was seventeen years
old when he received his bachelors de-
gree at Johns Hopkins University. He
was born in NIeadville, Pa, in 1870.
and was a Ph.D. at twenty and profess
scr of history at twenty-one-at the
University of Wisconsin. When the
American Peace Commission sought a
man to serve as Americas special com
missioner on Alsace-Lorraine and the
~arre at the peace conference, they Sc
lected DR.. Haskins, as a man who com
bined exact knowledge of the historical
facts with s~agacity and shrewdness as
to their bearing on very practical ques-
tons. Foreign institutions like the Roy
nj Historical Society, the Academies OF
Barcelona. Rouen and Caen were quick
to extend recognition to the distln-
guished American historical investigator.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-01-09

The Reformer 10 on sale every evening BY
the following news Dealers:
Brattleboro, Brattleboro News Co., c. w.
Cleaveland, s. l.. Purinton (Esteyville),
stand, Gilbert J. Pollica, ~ South Main St
Fort Drummer district.
West B~rattIeboro, ]. L Stockwell,
East Dummerston, n. Z. Brown.
Putney, NJ. G.. Williams.
Newfane, N. NJ. Batchelder.
West TovnShend, c. H. Grout.
Jamaica, r. ]. Daggett.
South Londonderry, F. II. Tyler.
South Vernon, Z. B. Buffum.
West Chesterfield, N. h, Mira. w, Strseter
Hinsda1e, N. a., w. H Lyman.
Greenfield, Mass, Greenfield News 20.
Greenfield, Mass, c A. HayL
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-01-09

4 slow battle seems to be on between
the fashionable and the orthopedic shoe.
At present the latter is distinctly gaining
ground. Boot and shoe authorities say
that common sense as to footwear has
been growing in the public mind at a
steadily increasing rate. Doubtless COM
mon sense will have to develop a good
deal further before high heels and pointed
toes are entirely banished as comfort
and fashion are often at odds.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-01-09
BLOCKING THE BLOC

Prohibiting legislative blocs alto
gethcr, on penalty of $4,000 fine. as a bill
introduced in the house aims to do, seems
like pretty drastic treatment. Whatever
objections may be brought against the
bloc system-and there are some serious
ones-it must be admitted that the mem
bers of the now celebrated agricultural
bloc at Washington make a plausible de-
tense.
They maintain that there is nothing
new in their operations except the name,
for which they themselves are not re
sponsible-that they nave only tried
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-01-09
Judge Parker.
(Barre Times

If Judge Alton b. Parker were run
ming a newspaper, the first thing he
would do would be to sit down and write
his personal opinion on some matter, or,
in other words, an editorial. which. ac-
cording to his belief recently expressed
at Montpelier would be subversive
of the proper work of the newspaper.
Judge Parker just couldn't help writing
editorials, we feel sure and sooner or
later those editorials would find their
way into the columns of his
But Judge Parker is a lawyer, not a
newspaper nan, which. may or ma not be
a misfortune, just as you look at what
is the proper province of a newspaper.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-01-09
Today's Birthdays

Lieut.. Gen. :. -. NJ. Young, L. S. A,
retired. born in Pittsburgh, 50 years
ago today.
Sir Thomas Dewar, noted London dis
tiller and sportsman, born in Perth, \.
T.. IS years ago today.
Edward Howard Griggs, well known
as an author and lecturer, born at Owa-
tonna, Mimi, 81 years ago today.
Mark W. Potter, member of the L. S.
interstate commission. born
at Kaneville, H., 90 years ago today.
Cardinal Vico, one of the oldest mem
bers of the Sacred College, born in a
diocese of Ancona, 70 years ago today.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-01-09
BY NORRIS

reason to think that he will err again?
In many cases the man is likely to do
so. =
The Rutland News believes that such
a man as former Governor Graham, who
has done for the state things that other
governors either nave lacked the ability
or the power to accomplish and his rec
ord as "a citizen of the commonwealth is
deserving of the best help that his fell
low citizens can give and should have
ample opportunity to retrieve himself
in the ewes Of Nermonters.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-01-09
Today's Anniversaries

1S06-Lord Nelson, Britain's famous
naval hero. was buried in st.
Paul's Cathedral.
1S36-Illinois legislature passed al act
for the construction of the Ill
inois and Michigan canal.
1S41-The battle of the Mesa was
fought by Gen. Kearney against
the ''revOlted" CalifOrnianS.
1S65-OliveF p. Morton. Indiana's war
governor, was -inaugurated for his
second term.
1S72-COngress placed a statue of Roger
Williams in the National Capitol.
1ST3-Napoleon Ill. former emperor of
the French, died at Chiselhurst.
England. Born in Paris, April
20, 1905.
1SSS-The remains of Napoleon III,
and the Prince Imperial were re-
moved from Chiselhurst to Farms
borough.
1912-Ohio'S fourth constitutional con
vention convened at Columbus.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-01-09

a demonstration of the female of the
species at n fire sale was given in Beverly,
Mass, the other day, a crowd of women
rushing into a store when a fire sale
opened with such force asvto push one of
their number out through a plate glass
window. A squad of seven policemen de-
clare they had the work of their lives to
keep other women from being hurt.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-01-09
TO ADVERTISERS.

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Space rates on application.
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insertion with 50 per cent discount for each
subsequent insertion without change of copy.
Reading notices are published At foot of local
items.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-01-09
AFTER CHRISTMAS.

IT I'm TTTST ~
The Christmas seasons past and gone, the New Year lopes along rs
course; sang glad carols on the lawn, and caught a cold, and low I'm
hoarse. have rheunatics in m y knee. more ailments than L care to state;
l drink large draughts of poisoned tea the druggist brings ne in a crate. Tie
Christmas spirit filed my breast I shook off all the old age stuff. + chorted
till L couldn't rest and with the kids played blind mans buff. I ate 900
many geese I'M ducks, toe nam turkeys, cakes and pies. and now I'm
taking pills of u and other pills that / despise. / caroled in the ice and
snow, IS people caroled in the past; 1 ven forth where the wild winds
blow n froze my whiskers in the blast The women bring m chicken
broth n hagons from tn cstern pump, and say / tried to ut a swath o
Christmas evening, like a ehump. Perhaps l was a chump, my lads, perhaps
] a a giddy loon; when young folks play the old gray dads should sit
before the fire and Groom. / see it now. here in my den, my joints all stiff
and muscles sore, but when the Yuletde ONES again, I'll be Il Blooming
chump once more.