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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-01
METHODISTS SHOW
GROWTH PAST YEAR
Gain of 1877 In Ministers and Increase
In Sunday Schools and Ep-
worth League.

NEWARK, X j. April 1-There
are / .913 Methodist ministers now study
ing and on trial preparatory to becoming
elders an increase of more than 1S1 over
last year. DR. r. J. Wade, Chicago CORE
spending secretary of the committee on
conservation and advance told the mem
bers of the Newark conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church here today.
There were 800 ministers who died
in 1921 there are 623 Supernumerary
preachers and 1888 retired minister's
he said ''Since June i. 1919, $40, 76S, $40
have been paid into the treasury of the
Methodist Episcopal church for the Meth
odist Centenary program, an increase of
over $50 per cent in giving of the AIetho-
dist Episcopal church.
The amount paid district superintend-
ents was 81. 526, sos; bishops, $401 ,516 !;
conference claimants, S1.711 .020, making
a total ministerial support of SOS. 26S, 237.
The Sunday schools of the whole church
number 36,415, an increase of 544, with a
total enrolment of 1878, 1876, an increase
of 25S.664
There are 29,616 churches, which is a
decrease of 207 The total property
valuation of churches and parsonages is
$685., 075, $3.50. an increase of Sal ,19S 255.
The Epworth Leagues in the United
States increased in senior membership
1856. to a total of 519,119, and the jun
Tor membership is 202,924.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-01

to this correspondent. yesterday that %
weeks elapsed in 1902 before President
Roosevelt was able to bring the last big
coal strike TO an end. The strike in 1919
was of six weeks duration and was really
terminated by the use of a wartime law
involving the application sof injunctions.
The government is in no need 10 resort to
such q process now.
Exhaustion by one side or the other is
inevitable in the opinion of government
officials. There's a surplus of 6a,QOO,U0O
tons of bituminouS coal and 10,000,000
tons of anthracite coal Just now. When
that's used up by the consumer the crisis.
in the strike viii be reached.
The issues involved in the present strike
situation are fundamental. They are
typical of other labor troubles of the
after-the-war period, perhaps more closely
analogous to the difficulties of the rail
roads than anything else.
Central Competition Field.
To the layman who doesn't follow the
inside controversies of the coal miners,
except when an acute situation presents
itself. certain facts are essential to an
understanding of what is about to happen,
There is what is known III coal parlance
the central competitive field which com
prises Illinois. Indiana, Ohio and Penn
sylyania.- For years 1t has been the
CUSTOM Ia the COAL WORTH ~ uStNt WaStFs
fixed in the central competitive field used
as Il basis for wage scales fixed by mine
operators and miners in districts outside
of that field.
The operators want to break up that
system They insist that every district
should be free to make its own wage
scales. The miners union. of course. OPP
poses that and wants the central field
system retained. The only new factor in
the situation is that the Illinois miners
are ready to break away from the central
competitive field and make their own
agreements with the operators. This has
a relationship incidentally to coal union
policies. The president of the Illinois
miners is Frank Harrington, bitter foe
of John L. Lewis. president of the Inter
national Mine Workers union. 1t Is
Harrington who is credited with having
forced Lewis to declare a strike in 1919
and on this account harrington is ready.
10 break away from the central COMPETE
tive field where the largest single block
of votes for president of the miners union
is to be found.
Produces Less Than Half.
As for the amount of coal mined in the
central competitive field it used TO be 50
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-01
GROWS TIMBER IN
NATURE CONTRACT
Michigan Man Transforms 1,40O-Acre
Burnt Tract Into Permanent
Forest

GLEN HAVEN, Mich, April l.
4 partnership contract" with nature
drawn up mentally by ID. II. Day
obliged him to let slip many Opportuni-
ties to make money, he says but en-
abled him to develop from the young
second growth on a tract that has been
burnt over by fire a j ,400-acre forest
which he expects ito stand for all
time state game refuge and
state park have been located in the for
est
Mature can remedy the lumber short
age if we give her the chance" says
Mr. Day. He summarizes his con
tract" formulated If years ago, as fol-
lows
81 agree to do everything in my
power to assist nature in making this
land produce lumber. I viii cut only
the largest of the trees, leaving the
smaller ones to grow and produce 9th
erS. ] will keep the entire tract as free
from fire hazards as possible. and will
not resort to thinning of the trees, even
though | might make bigger and quicker
profits, because this would waste the
young timber. / will so adjust my af-
fairs that this tract forever will remain
in its natural state. providing a source
of revenue and at theAsame time adding
to the joy of those who love the out of
DOORS satl
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-01
GUILFORD.

AR Emmons of Winchester is. the saw
yer in Perry's steam mill
The school in this village will open
next Monday for the spring term.
F.. H. Underwood of Gardner, Mass,
was at his home over Sunday, March 10.
Miss. Helen johnson returned Friday
to her position in Oak Grove school, Brat
tleboro.
f. Coombs & Sons are preparing the
foundation for new garage on their
house lot.
The Christian Endeavor topic for next
Sunday evening is Better Bible Reading
Samuel Mcclure leader.
Mrs. c. \. Whipple. who has been
seriously i'll several weeks, is suffering
from an attack of pneumonia Two nurses
are in attendance Mrs Alice Wilder is
doing the homework.
a. ID. Benson, who has been confined t.
his bed seven weeks, is much improved
and is able TO be about his home Two
younger brothers of Mr.. Benson have died
this month. One at the age of 81, who
was living in Florida, and the other aged
so lived in Londonderry.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-01
TOWNSHEND.

The Dorcas Guild will hold an all
day meeting at the Congregational yes
try Wednesday, April 5. Dinner viii be
served at noon.
Miss Catherine Plant. who has been
spending the winter at the home of
relatives in Chicago. Is expected home
Friday of this week.
An all-dav sewing meeting of the
Hadassah league will be held at the
Baptist vestrv Thursday. April g. Dim
ner viii be served at noon by the host
esses.
The sugar season has been unusually
favorable this year and a large quantity
of high grade syrup has been made. Two
DAYS of fog and light rain. followed by
loud thunder peals Tuesday night. has
put a ston to the sap until a change in
the weather. Snow is going rapidly.
The village graded and Junior senior
high schools opened Tuesday with all
teachers in place. except Mrs. l.. S. Boy
den. who is still under quarantine Miss
Lillian Deans is taking her classes at
present. Miss Angelina Simpson has
recovered sufficiently from her recent
operation for appendicitis to allow her
to take her place in school. Not all of
the students are vet back for the spling
term.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-01
OPENING
SHELTER HOME
Public Inspection Thursday, April g.
Children Admitted Following
Saturday

MONTPELIER, April 1. The
board of charities and probation an
nounce that its Shelter Home will be
opened to the public for inspection,
time The board VIII be- very. glad to have
the people generally visit the :home and
note the provision that ha s been, made for
the first care of dependent and neglected
ehildfeii that are committed TO them by
the courts of thestate.
AT 8 S6sel9ck Of the same evening Fred
ERIK. II Knight. Phi. n superintendent of
the New England Home for Little Wan
slerers at Boston, viii address a meeting
on Child Welfare I'M the high school
aufiiforiiInl. Drl knight is one of New
England s first authorities on the care of
dependent and defective children.
Saturday, April s, Kinstead will be
officially opened for the reception of com
mitted children from the courts and sew
eraI are now waiting that day TO come to
the home After April 10 .Kinstead will
be opened to visitors from 3 to each
week day afternoon.
Nearly all of the equipment and fur
nishings are. now in place The amount
of the appropriation made by the legis-
lature was only little more than two
thirds of the sum necessary TO establish
and equip the Shelter Home Secretary
Jeffrey has raised about $1,000 in addi-
ton to the amount appropriated by the
state.
Donations in the form of furniture and
all kinds of equipment, together with
cash, have been received to give KinStead
the atmosphere of real home, to make
it place where the children could get
their first start in right living under
wholesome conditions and home training,
and while some of the subscriptions have
been of goodly amount, the donations
from children to help their little friends
less fortunately situated have bppn most
interesting Hundreds of donations have
come to the board of charities and pro-
baton ranging from two cents to five
cents. So generous have been the gifts
that little is still needed to complete the
home.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-01

per cent Of the nations total, but now it
Is only 40 per cent. The districts outside
of the central competitive field are pro-
ducing the greatest amount. The opera
tors, therefore, want the right to make
their own wage scales irrespective of
what happens in the central field. The
effort to. break up that block has been at
the bottom of America coal troubles for
a generation. Naturally it is to the inter
est of the miners union officials to keep.
the central competitive field a unit. IL
means cohesion Similarly il was to the
to keep the matter of wage agreements on
national basis so that one scale could
be negotiated for all while the railroad
companies wanted each railroad system to
have the right to deal with its own EN-
pioyes and fix its own rates of labor.
The issue is still tied mp IN the United
States railway board, bat the railroad
systems are gradually winning their
point.
No Board to Control Coal.
There is no similar government board
to handle coal affairs. Committees of
congress are active trying TO find so
luticn and there always have been pro-
posalS TO establish fuel commission to
supervise the coal industry, but no sug-
gestion of enthusiasm Tor such a scheme
is forthcoming from either miners or
operators. The chances are, therefore,
that the coal strike will run ON indefi-
nitely until exhaustion forces the opera
tors and miners into a conference, some
thing which has been consistently lodged
during recent weeks on the theory that
it would be inconclnSive. \ test of
strength has been inevitable and the Off
cih impression for the moment is some
thing like this: -tt
Let them fight it ont for while and
we'll then step in and see what can be
done"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-01
WEST DUMNIERSTON

Schools in districts and are to be
gin Monday after a three-weeks vaca-
ton.
Miss Catherine Hartnett was called
to Keene by the death of her cousin
Tuesday.
Forest Combs aud son, Raymond of
Manchester visited his mother Mrs.
Charlotte Combs. Tuesday.
Mrs. W. Burnham went Saturday to
the Memorial hospital in Brattleboro,
where she underwent a serious operation
Monday.
The Grange is to hold a sugar supper
next Tuesday evening in the Adams
house There also will be music and
games As this is also a package social
It is requested that each person over 10
bring a package worth at least 10 cents.
A Grange meeting was held in the
home sof T. T. Putnam Tuesday evening.
Refreshments of cake, sandwiches,
salads. and coffee were served There
were about 50 members present. The
members whose birthday anniversaries
occurred in March furnished the re-
freshments,
The meeting of the w d. G. club at
Mrs. Florence Tuttle's last Thursday
was well attended A bountifm lunch
Of sandwiches. cake and coffee was
served at noon. The club will meet
next Thursday. April 6. at the home of
Mrs. T. F. O 'Brien. All members are
urged to be present.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-01
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES GAIN.
Report of John VI. COmstOck Shows In
crease of 22S i'm Membership.

CHELSEA. April 1.-The statistics of
the 213 Congregational churches in Yer
mont for 1921. az compiled by John NJ.
Comstock, the statistician for the Con
gregational conference. show gratifying
gains all along the line. The total mem
bership of the churches is 3.26S. n net
gain in membership of DDS in the year
There is a gain of 932 in the Sunday
schools, who report membership of
1890, a gain of % in young peoples so
cieties with a membership of 3,S23: a
gain of $50 families, with a total of
1884,
Home expenses increased S36,913 and
amounted to S344.755 while the invested
funds of the churches increased S3S. 540
and are now valued at $736,944. Benevo-
lent contributions to the denominational
societies increased S20.470 and amounted
in 1921 to S101 .1S6.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-01
GO IT STRIKERS,
co IT OPERATORS
Government Inclined to Let
Them Fight Until
p Exhausted
INTERFERENCE NOW
PERFECTLY USELESS


Government May Act When Short
age In Coal Cornerstone Strife Be
tween Unions Over Wage Fixing.
.. BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
Especial Dispatch to The Reformer)
Copyright 1922.
WASHINGTON. April 1.-The coal
strike is to be fight to the finish. Gov
ernment officials feel that they are pow
erless to do anything effective at this
time and believe it viii be a month or two
before either side will be willing to listen
to counsel.
Both President Harding and Secretary
Davis have been trying for some time to
get both sides together. but when each is
convinced it has something to gain by a
strike the efforts of mediator are bound
to be futile. :.r.
Secretary of Labor Davis pointed out
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-01

In spite of its great height and the
large area it ehcloses. the Eiffel tower
is comparatively light, weighing but
5000 tons or less than the average
transatlantic passenger steamship.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-03-15
PARTISAN WOMEN CRAZY
over USELESS POODLES

Paris-(A. PHO longer will
those pampered pets of Partisan wo-
men-the Pomeranian and the Pek-
ingese-be left to the unskilled care
of the maid for the weekly baths.
Elaborate baths, constructed and
equipped exclusively for the ablutions
of pet dogs of wealthy Parisians have
just been opened in the exclusive
Saint HenOrs quarter of Paris.
A fashionable dogs life is verit-
able path of roses if the word Of at
tendants at the canine bathing estab-
lishment may be accepted as true.
Attendants say he rides in a luxurious
motorcar to the baths where he has
a private bathing compartment.
After the bath experienced mass
eurs pay their respects to his canine
highness while a manicurist shapes
his aristocratic claws. When the
veterinary determines that his health
is all that his owner could desire, he
reenters the motorcar with his mis-
tress and returns home to dainty
meal of porterhouse steak
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-03-15
$l5,O00,0O0 fire
|NIIHEART CHICAGO
BURNS OVER LARGE AREA-PUTS
$4,000 PERSONS OUT OF EMPLOY
MENT-POSSIBLY INCENDIARY

Chicago-(A. P) - A spectacular
early morning fire today destroyed a
full square of business buildings just
outside Chicago's loop" district, with
loss that is estimated at from
twelve to fifteen million dollars. The
fire started in the center of the block
bounded by Van Buren, Canal and
Clinton streets and West Jackson
boulevard and burned over every
structure in that area, leaped north
across Jackson street, and wrecked
the History Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy Railroads general office bull
ding, which also houses the Mercan-
tile Trust & Savings bank and under
the burden of a strong wind, crossed
Van Buren, southwark, and burned
nearly through another block to- Har-
rison street
Shirley High, city fire attorney,
stated that the original blaze, from
which the conflagration grew, was
possibly of incendiary origin, and an
nounced the arrest of an unnamed
man, on information supplied by H. T.
Schiff, president of the Confectionery
Speciality company, where the fire
started The man was a former en-
DlOye OF the company ana was given
his release after being questioned
several hours.
1t is estimated that 25,000 persons
were rendered jobless through the
fire.
Reno Hotel Destroyed
Reno, Nev-(A P.)-Scores of
guests escaped from upper windows
in night clothes when the Riverside
hotel, the largest here, was destroyed
by fire early this morning. The esti-
mated loss is a quarter of million
dollars, with insurance totaling about
100000. The fire started in the base
ment, presumably from defective wir-
ing.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-03-15
COMPLETE PLANS STUMP
BLASTING exhibition

Potlatch-Equipmen and supplies
for the stump blowing and land
clearing demonstration to be staged
at Potlatch at | 100 p. m. on Tuesday,
March 21st, have been received on
the ground. This demonstration is
being put on by the Du Pont com
pany, in cooperation with the Pot
latch Lumber company and 0. S.
Fletcher, county -agriculturist on a
tract selected for the demonstration
near the mill at Potlatch.
But one demonstration will be
staged in the county. The Du Pont
engineers and demonstration crew
will arrive a couple of days in adj
vance in order to have the holes
bored and everything in readiness so
the demonstration can be conducted
with dispatch. More than local in
terest is being taken in the demon
stration, since it affords the first op-
portunity to see a practical demon
stration of Pacific Stumping Pow
der the latest development of the
Du Pont chemical laboratories. This
powder has been perfected to meet
western requirements and much ls
claimed for it both from the results
obtained and the costs involved.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-03-15
COURT REPORTERS HATE
TO Lose JUDGE lands

Chicago-(A.~ P.)- Newspapermen
are supposed to stand by and smile
at happenings and people in a cynic-
al manner, according to the popular
belief. The men assigned by the Chi
Icago newspapers to cover the federal
building beat" however, were a lit
tie bit different if the case of the re-
tirement of Kenesaw M. Landis from
the federal bench
~ A4.4llo,,o Juils. . last uay III
courl the Ieueral DuIloIng reporters
presented him with the following
testimonial hand lettered around his
photograph on a large plaque:
Judge Lands
For newspaper men the Federal
building will not be the same after
you have gone, You will take the life
of the joint away with you.
sThe good opinion of newspaper
reporters is seldom sought, perhaps,
but few men can say, as you can, that
their departure made the press room
blue.
We've known you for long time,
and we'll miss you for longer time.
Not just because there is copy in
your fortnight way of doing things,
but because we think you are an
honest-to-God man and a judge with
the right kind of backbone. Good
luck"
1t was signed by each of the re-
pOrters.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-03-15
THE SHRINE JOLLIES"
TONIGHT AT AUDITORIUM


"The Shrine Jollies of 1922" will be
presented at the University of Idaho
auditorium this evening starting at
8:05 o'clock, according to announce
ment by F. F. Gosden of the Joe Bren
Production company of Chicago, who
is in charge of the minstrel musical
revue being put on by the Moscow
Shrine club with cast of so. A com
plete rehearsal of the show was held
Tuesday night, the scenery and cos
tunes have arrived, and the show is
ready for presentation.
The attraction is a combination Of
old fashioned minstrel brought up to
the minute by the latest musical
novelties and laugh provokers. The
song and dance act Longing" fea-
turing Miss Mollie Porter and a num-
ber of able assistants, the mind
reading act put on by Dean o. P.
Cockerill and R. B. Ward, and Intro
ducing the Drill" with Glen Grice as
captain are features of the program.
The production is fully costumed
throughout and an eight piece or
hcestra, lead by Lynn Hersey and
with Eric Leithe at the piano, will
furnish the accompaniment for the
entire show
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-03-15
|NTERM0UNTAIN
LIVESTOCK SHOW
+. f. REINHART, u. OF 1. JUDGE
IN DAIRY SECTION AT
SALT LAKE CITY.

! Salt Lake City.-As the opening
date of the fifth annual Intermoun-
tain Livestock show, to be held at
North Salt Lake, April 3, 4, and 6,
approaches, final arrangements for
housing the exhibits and taking care
of thousands of visitors are being
hurried to completion at the Salt
Lake Union stockyards. The new big
stock building will be completed by
April l. The present buildings are be-
ing placed in readiness for the entries
and other work in preparation for the
big event is being carried out in every
detail.
Never before has the show attract
ed the widespread attention that it
has this year While it has always
been an important factor in the live
stock industry of Salt Lake and the
immediate vicinity, intereste in the
event has never been so extensive as
the 1922 entries indicate.
Prospects for a ready sale of all
classes of stock has also encouraged
many to ship exhibits to the show.
An improvement in the industry gen
orally has awakened keen interest
among the growers of the different
breeds of cattle, sheep and swine.
David A. Smith, chairman of the
committee, announces that M. r.
Murphy general manager of the Cud
ahy packing plants, with headquart-
ers at South Omaha, Nebraska, has
accepted an offer to serve as a judge
in the swine section. Mr.. Murphy
perhaps has had as much experience
in the livestock field as any packer
in the country, and he is considered
one of the foremost authorities on
hogs. Mr.. Smith said that his ser
vices as Judge will be credit to
the fifth annual show.
Professor e. F. Reinhart of the de-
partment of animal husbandry of the
University of Idaho has agreed to
serve as a judge in the dairy section.
While the dairy section is new fea
ture of the show this year, it promises
to rank in Importance with other
sections. Many entries of high grade
dairy stock already have been re-
ceiyed and number of others are in
prospect.
DR.. Mead stated that entries to
date are eighty percent greater than
at this time two years ago, when the
last show was held.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-03-15
RUSSIAN TO REBUILD
FORTUNE AT Age OF lOl

Baku, Azerbaijan-(A. P.)-At the
age of 101 years, Hadji Tagiev, Baku's
former oil king, who was ruined by
Soviet naturalization of his prop
erty, has started to rebuild his for
tunes where he began-as stone
mason
Hadji Tagiev is an optimist. "a man
isn't old so long as he can work" he
he continues to dye his white beard
brown.
He is using his spare moments in
learning to write. For more than 80
years he had signed his name to bust
ness papers by making his mark with
a blunt stick dipped in ink.
..One must keep up with the times,
he explained to curious friends when
the centenarian began to take les
sons.
Tagiey is known to Americans
through his reception in his Baku
palace two and half years ago of
the General James H. Harbord mis-
sion. He was and is known through
out Russia and the Middle East as an
example of a poor man who became
immensely wealthy, first as a house
builder and then, so years ago,
through the purchase of piece of
oil land that yielded abundantly This
was in the days when oil was gather
ed close to the surface and taken from
wells in buckets
When the Azerbaijan republic was
soyietized by Moscow, his palace was
converted into a children's orphan
age and its treasures of art and
tapestry scattered. While trying to
take some of his silver plate and
painting to the country in OK carts
apparently laden with straw, red
sentinel at the outskirts Of the city
discovered and seized the escaping
wealth. Tagiev was beloved by the
workmen of Baku and was not harm
ed in person.