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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-02-20
COAL MINERS ASK
G HOURS, 5 DAYS
Insert Demand Against Advice of Scale
Committee-WilI Interfere With
Wage Settlement

INDIANAPOLIS. Feb. 20.-The six
hour day and fivcday week were voted
into the scale proposals Of the miners
Saturday afternoon. against the unani-
nous advice of the scale committee,
which recommended an eight-hour dav
from the time Of entering the mine, the
equivalent on many properties of an
even shorter day at the face of the coal
than is now demanded
{ Both the administration forces and
the FarFington- Howat group of insur-
gents admit that the adoption OF the six
hour day plank means nothing but more
trouble in working ont an agreement.
harrington agreeing with the deelara-
tion of Vice President Murray that it is
an unnecessary handicap to place upon
the negotiators and impossible of acqui-
sition.
In a statement. President Lewis an
nounced that within few days he would
issue another call to the operators for
n conference.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-02-20
TAXABLE INCOMES
GAIN S4,000,000,000
Increase for Year 1919 Compared with
191S-65 Personal Incomes
S1.OOO,OOO or Over.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-Taxable
incomes of individuals returned TO the
government for the calendar year 1919
showed an increase of nearly $1,000
100000 as compared with 1918, accord
ing to statistics issued last night by the
internal revenue bureau.
For 1919 there were J,332,760 individ-
ual returns filed for a total income of
S19,sJ9,OOOOO0 as against 4.425, ia re-
turns for total of SO, 924, 100000 for
1918. The tax collected on the 1919
returns amounted to S1,2T0,000.000, an
increase of $141 sos 900 over 1918.
Personal returns of incomes of 81
100000 and over totallcd CO for 1919.
compared with 81 in 1918, while for
1919 there were five returns filed for in
comes of $5,000,000 and over.
For 1919 there were six personal re-
turns of income from S3,000000 to S4,-
100000; seven of income from S.. 600
600 to $4,000, 600; Is from S1,500000
to S2,000,000: ~ from S1,000,000 to
S1.J00.0OO; 81 from S75O000 to 1000
600; and 1IO from 100000 to $JQO00O.
The average net income reported for
1919 was S3.124.0J, the average amount
of tax S23S.0S and the average tax ESQ
per cent. The proportion of the pOpula-
ton of the country filing returns for the
year was 5,03 per cent. reporting per
capita net income of S1ST.32 and a per
capita income tax of S119S.
The number of joint returns of hus-
bands and wives for 1919 was 2,S5S,J97
and the number of wives making sspa-
rate returns from their husbands was
S,J34 The number of single men fill
ing returns as heads of families was
362, 7o7, and the number OF single
women filing such returns was IS, j9J.
The number of returns from all other
single men was 1.602,277, and from all
other single women was 361 $50
The number of corporation income tax
returns, other than personal service
corporations for 1919 was 800, JOS, of
which 209.634 reported net income
amounting to S9,411 100000 with to-
tai tax of S2.175. 100000, compared with
the 1918 figures of 317,579 corporations
filing returns, of which 202.061 reported
a total net income of SS,361 100000 and
tax aggregating So, los, 100000.
Partnerships filing returns for 1919
totalled 165, sos, and the number of
personal service corporations A7JS
Personal income returns of more than
81 900 100000 were reported from each
of FIVE states, New York leading with
So. 4:6 .000.0G0: PENNSYLVANIA, S1.S3S,-
100000; Illinois 81 662, 100000 MasSa
chusetts S1090.000 900. and Ohio 81.
075, DOC, 900. Nevada with a total of 500
$50 900 reported the smallest total of
the states
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-02-20
National Guardsmen Are to
Have Two Weeks Drill
ing In Home State
General Camps

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. - More
than quarter of million men are ex-
pected by war department officials to be
under canvas or in barracks this sum
mer for intensive military training for
the first time since congress welded the
regular army the National Guard and
the organized reserves into a composite
body constituting the army of the United
States. Plans for the instruction of
227 900 men. representing the three
compOuentS of the united land forces.
were announced today by the depart
ment.
Ample funds for the program are ex-
pccted by officials of the department to
be made available by congress by that
time and while the plans are made con
tingent upon the amount of money APP
propriated officials feel confident the
necessary sum viii be allowed for their
full development. In addition to the
regular army personnel required to su-
pcrvisc the training work under com
manderS of the nine corps areas. there
viii be approximately 100000 members
of the National Guard in the field. about
10000 reserve officers and specialists,
10000 student members of the reserve
officers training corps and $1,000 civil
lians.
The plans provide for the training of
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-02-20
NEW REQUIREMENT
TEACHER TRAINING
School or Academy 90 BE Admitted
to Courses I'm Vermont.

BURLINGTON, Feb. 2S-Graduation
from an approved fouT-Vear high school
or academy viii be required. beginning
in September, 1922, for admission to any
teacher training class in Vermont. accord
ing to action taken in the state board
Of education, in session here. This will
mean that girls who have formerly
taken mp teacher training for their last
year in high school will now be Obliged
to graduate from the four-year course in
an approved high school before going in
TO the teachers training course. Hereto
fore three years of high school have
made the student eligible for the teacher
training class.
The one-year teacher training classes
viii be continued in connection with
high schools where they are already
established, and the two-vear teacher
training courses viii be conducted at
the University OF Vermont. at Castleton
and in other places where they are now
in operation, but with the difference that
no girl will be allowed to take M the
teachers training work until she had
completed her four years of high school
in Il satisfactory manner
This step has been long contemplated,
as there has been much call for it. How
ever. it was not thought best to take
1t while there was considerable shortage
of teachers in the state. During the
last year, however, a large number of
teachers have been trained an the various
courses in the state and c! II. Dempsey,
commissioner of education. reported to
the board that there is now good list
of teachers who are ready to take posi-
tions, so that there should be no diff
Guilty in filing vacant positions with
first class teachers.
This being the case, it was decided
best to put this new ruling into effect,
beginning next September
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-02-20
Plan Mte71SiUe Military
Training for $4,000 Men

national guardsmen preferably in their
own states or at the nearest suitable
federal or state cncampment Wherever
federal environments are available they
will be offered to the states under revoc-
able contracts.
Tho Training Camp.
Most of the training of the organized
reserves and members of the citizen mil
itary training camps win be at Fort
Ethan Allen. Vt. Camp Devens. Mass,
Plattsburg Barracks. n Y. Camp Dix,
y. j.. Camp Meade. Md. Camp Bragg.
y. c., Camp Benning. Ga, Camp Nc
Clellan. Ala, Camp Knox. Ky, Camp
Custer Mich. Camp Grant H. Fort
Smelling Mimi. Camp Funston. Kan,
Camp Travis, Tex Fort Logan. Col,
Camp Lewis. Wash. Preside of San
Francisco and the Preside of Monterey.
Cal. Other camps and stations of the
regular army viii be utilized to a lesser
extent.
The courses for organized reserve per
sonnet will be limited according to Law
TO two weeks. Demonstrations by small
units of the regular army win be staged
at each training encampment to illus
trate standards of proficiency in drills
and tactical methods in force and man.
euver problems. -s... SID. .#.
The department announced that ap-
picationS for attendance at the citizens
training camp will be accepted after
April 1 at the corps headquarters at
Boston: Governors Island. y Y: Fort
Howard. Nd; Fort Mcpherson. Ga.
Fort Benjamin Harrison. Ind Fort
Sheridan. H.: Fort Crook. Neb Fort
Sam Houston, Tex: md the Preside at
San Francisco.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-02-20

fos many months. The Improvement mas
been gradual and steady but il never
could be called pronounced. When he
found at last that the peak of the de-
preston. so far as the banks of the
country are concerned. had been reached
and that the statement registered for
the first time "A very substantial up
turn in resources he directed the at
tcntion of the President and his cabinet
to it and when AIR. Harding met the
Washington correspondents he had cop
les of the statement for their eXamin.
alton.
Fit demonstrates" read the statement
of the comptroller. that the process of
liquidation has been proceeding at such
an excellent rate that it may fairly be
said that we are well ON the road to
getting the frozen credits thawed out.
In this regard, indeed. it is by. far the
most satisfactory showing that has been
made since the phrase frozen credits
was invented.
Better Than Expected,
Even, more promising is the data
available at the office OF Eugene Meyer,
IT., managing director of the war finance
corporation. Not only is an improve
ment in agricultural conditions reported.
but the repayments on recent export
loans and other credits advanced for do
nestle farm purposes are better than
anybody dreamed would be the case. Inc
beginnings of an export trade are notice
able Foreign exchange rates have held
back expert trading, The passage oil
the bill permitting President Harding
to negotiate with the allies for the pay
mcnt of interest and principal on tho
war debt is expected to bring an even
greater Improvement in exchange and
consequently i'll export trade. Recent
advances in the prices of agricultural
products are attributed by many ObserY-
erS here to the appearance again OF an
export trade
The most interesting development of
a political stature in connection with the
improved conditi0nS-if matters inter-
national can be called political-iS the
way the domestic credit situation as well
as the upturn in the prices 0btainable
for farm products has marched along
with the bettcrment of exchange rates
which. in turn. are n reflection of better
economic understanding between Europe
and America. Although for the moment
the United States government has ITS
own peculiar reasons for not wishing
to go to the Genoa conference, the bank
ing and financial minds of the admins
tratiOn would like to see she United
States represented there. They think II
would still further improve exchange
relationship and bring America the eX-
port trade she needs as an outlet for
her manufacturing and productive en-
tcrprises. The relationship between po-
litical stability III Europe and American
economic prosperity has been slowly but
surely developed even among many who
used to think policy of economic $50
latiOn was not only desirable but safe.
The advocates of international cooper
alton are growing in number.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-02-20
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

to Secure Further Improvement In
Foreign Exchange.
f~ BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
Especial Despatch to The -Reformcr,)
Copyright 1922.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 20.-BuSincss
is better President Harding says 50
and offers figures and statistics to con-
firm his optimistic view. Heretofore his
expressions about the business situation
have been general in character and
tiugcl with u vague hopcfulncss that the
depression must sooner or later come to
amend, Now. however with Il smile of
happiness on his face. he takes occasion
to analyze the late data received by
the comptroller of the currency.
The President explained that his pur-
pose was neither political nor partisan.
Mr.. Harding is no more anxious to claim
credit for the better turn in business
affairs than was his administration
ready to take responsibility for the eco
nomlfeal depression which became acute
in the first six months of his term of
office ..E
The day is passing when politicians
are claiming that they are able by gov
ernmental effort to bring prosperity
when at the same time it has been DEM
mCnt does not always bear a relation
ship to economic factors of worldwide
extent. This doesn't prevent the parti-
sans from making all sorts of claims but
the shrewd leaders no longer try to take
the credit for an upward turn in bust
ness conditions.
Wants TO Check PeSsimiSm.
President Harding. however, has an
other object in making it plain to the
American people that the data in pos
session of the. government showed Il
marked improvement in the credit sit.
nation. He wants to offset the apprc-
tensions of the pessimist who can create
a psychological situation that will hurt
business. There are still many buSi-
ness men in America refraining from do
ing certain things that would benefit
themselves and the country but who
hesitate on account of the business
outlook" For this reason the govern
ment doesn't mind interpreting the
business outlook
The comptroller of the currency whose
duty it is to issue regular calls for state
mCnts from the national banks of the
country, has had nothing TO boast about
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-02-20
BUSINESS SHOWS
ACTUAL GAINS
President Offers Figures
and Statistics to Demon
strate Improvement
NO POLITICAL g.. 49,.
-s r. CREDIT CLAIMED

Agricultural Conditions Better - Begin
ming TO Export Goods - Financial
Minds Favor Representative at Genoa
to Secure Further Improvement In
Foreign Exchange.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-02-20

Nood-boring insects are said to COM
municate with one another by means Of
taps.
iinii2 10 badIoU aGU @ aatN lNs
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-02-20
Jack rs Old Friend.

A plant Of much interest found IN
our spring woods, is the jack-in-the-
pulpit. or Indian turnip, a plant of the
arum family to which the well-known
calla-lily also belongs. The sheath
("the pulpit'), which surrounds the
central portion is called the spathe,
and IS really leaf modified for the
protection Of flowers. American For
estry Magazine
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-02-20
OFFICERS FOIL
SLICK RUM RUSE
Liquor Runner with Auto
Said He Wanted to
Beat StOrk
SHOWED SUITCASE
OF BABY CLOTHING

Wanted TO Reach Hospital Quickly so
Child Could Be Born in Vermont. but
Glance at wife" Aroused Suspicion
and Revolver Prevented Escape.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-02-20
OSER-NTCORMICK ENGAGEMENT.
Rich Chicago Girl Under IL to Marry
Swiss Decorator Who Is 81.

CHICAGO. Feb. 20-At O'Clock
last night Harold F.. Mccormick, from
his residence, issued the following state
ment:
Harold +. Mccormick announces the
engagement of his daughter, Miss Ma
thilde, to Max OSer of Zurich, Switzer-
land. This announcement is FASTENED
a few weeks by the fact of the recent
newspaper publicity
Mr.. Oser IS 81 years old and an in
terror decorator. Miss Mccormick is
less than II.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1922-06-30

Patronize the home merchant.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1922-06-30

Residents of ST. Johns having taxes
and city liens to pay in Portland can
make their payments without ineonyeni.
enee by availing themselves OF our ser
vices. We will pay same and secure your
receipt without Inconvenience to Won.
Fee, 2oe. References: Any St. Johns
Bank--Peninsuls Title, Abstract and
Realty Co., by II. Henderson, Manager:
402 North Jersey Street.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1922-06-30
SUMMONS

tn the Circuit Court ui the state ui oregon Tor
the County " Muitnomah
Allie ~ stcinmctf, rniniiii vs. rfank q.
oConnuf and Nora oSonnofi hia vile, Defend.
10 pfnnk r. u'counof and Nota connof.
hts vile The above named defendants
tn the name ui the state of oregon, you aud
rsch II yuu are hereby required o. appear in SAID
sJuft and cause aud auswcf The complaint hled
sgaiuat you iu the above entitled suit on uf hr.
tore Monday. 10, iAih day ui August. iyil, said
date hsinR sis weeks from the date ~ first pub.
lCatiun ni this summons Hud " Nuu lail aU o. 90
pslf anl answer iuf want thereof The plalnlW
viii appl, ~ the youti TOT ne relief prayed iut
iu hrt complaint herein tu.wit
A Judgment and decree forever Ccaaiug. trfa
miuauug aud declaring null aud yoid that trts
tain y1utfat entered into uu ut about the 18th
dav ~ March. tgIt. by aud between tsr ptainuit
hrfriu hud defendants. ltAuk Il, o'tuuuuf aud
Nufa uCnnnuf, wherein plaiutU agrees tu sell
aud defendants 90 putthnng that certain real
property dizytihcd as the South Ten Uul iyct ui
iut five tsl and thr south IhittY tiul trrt Of Zoe
aH thl hiu,t tuut tl Hiu.hs addition 90 lAsl
Portland add nov Within the corporate limits ~
the CITY ut fuitlhud oregon
Aud tufrJ iusiug aud terminating aii right a.
tir and Interest ~ the defendants aud rayh ~
dss,fihsd ani herein isiors -, out, and rrslof.
iuE the said frai property 90 plaintu, pud toe
hef uusis aud disbursements incurred iu said
suit sud such Other ani father tvliri in the
premises 90 10 the court may scrm meet aud
This summons is served uuou you by publiya
ton thereof hy ufdst "a the Honorable Robert
Tugkrf. Judge ui thg above entitled court made
aud entered uu gIrt daN ~ luur. IHEg. hN which
urdrt it IL dS,TrrH tlat this utdrr hg Published
in the " Johns stisw uu,r wsvk iui not lrsH
publication thereof being June o. t4GE. and ihr
date ~ The last publication hsiug August a., va
HiuNiN GuKbuN.
AuurneS tot riaiutIu.
go GeIiiuger uldg Portland urs Main fag'
PatrOnize the home merchant.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1922-06-30
CHICAGO PASTOR WINS
EIGHT YEAR CRUSADE
"Flphtlnp Psrson" Cleaned Up Noto.
rlous North Side Dives.

DIR. Elmer Lynn Williams is called
the lighting parson" back In Chicago.
When he came to that city as pastor
OF Grace Methodist Episcopal church,
ne found an abomlnably corrupt con-
dltion In the moral life Of his commu-
nifty He proceeded to clean up con.
dltions, and he did the Job TO nlcety.
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-08-30

tCoHtinued From Pare OIel
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-08-30
z - egs Washington State College Wins Honors

xs PULLMAN, Wash. Aug. 0.-Wash- < ington State College here has won { the honor of classification as dis . lingmshe" institution among colleges maintaining military departments, ac-
 cording to word just received here 1. This means that the war department considers the training in military science and tactics offered by the sState college R. 0. T. c. as worthy of rating with the best in the land. y1 recognition coveted by every insti-
 tuition maintaining a military de- , partment and recognized by the Fed eral government.
 sf The recognition will also mean that "a greater number of state college
 men will be eligible for nomination sas second lieutenants in the regular army and will give the local R. o.
 n. c. an additional instructor. :. The Federal inspection. which re- suited in the securing of the dis tinguished rating by the state col jege R. O. T. c. was conducted early in May. Every phase of military work was included in the inspection, Including theoretical and practical work by the engineers nnif of the
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-08-30

tCoHbinued From Pare OIel Pacific had not been permanently agreed upon. Our organization at it's meeting last evening, therefore, re- solved:
 That you be requested to use every effort to have the international boundary between Canada and Alaska run from Portland Canal westwardly through the center of Dixon Entrance passing into the Pacific at point midway between Cape MuZon and the nearest point on Queen Charlotte Island, thereby placing approximate ly one-haf of Dixon Entrance on the Alaska side of the boundary
 This would not deprive Canada of any land which she now claims, but il would restore to he southern shore Of Alaska its thrcc-mile shore rights and permit the laying of a cable from Seattle direct to the nearest Alaskan port.
 With only a small population we are offering business far beyond the capacity of the old cable, and there is no provision in sight for growth.
 Ketchikan is doing more than her share of the busincss5 it is therefore only right that we get increased and direct service in order that the cable facilities may increase in proportion to the other developments which are now in progress.
 We believe that you already realize our reed Of this service. and trust that you can succes sfnlly impress upon the other members of the com mission the justice of our request. Sinccre'y yOurs.
 KETCHIKAN COMMERCIAL CLUB
 J. c. BARBER, President
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-08-30
ARENTz MINING BILL NOT FAIR,
 STATES LEEHEY
Seattle Attorney Raises Many Objections to Revision
 of Mining Law.

Enumeratlng mlny objections he now before Congre5s), proposing re- vision of the mining laws, Maurice D. Leehey said sahat the passage Of the measure would Ee especially harmful ito Alaska. He charges that it was prepared by engineers of the Bureau of Mines under the influence of engineers Of the big companies who did not appreciate the difficul- ties of the prGspectcr or the necessi- ties of the small operator.
 States Many Objections
 MT. Leehey put his opposition to the measure on the following grounds:
 q. It requires all mining claims, both lode and placer. to be in either 40-acre or l0-acre tracts. wish car dinal lines, true north and south and east and west. The prospector wonld have to find the true direc- t'on and this would tken be impos- sibie without surveyor and great expense He could not locate creek rlacelts in the direction of the creek, but would have to locate 40-acre or lO-acre sqnares and that would usual ly mean to take in lot of ground of no value. Neither could he locate directly along the vein, but would have to take 10 acres or 40-acre squares and be sure to get the lines east and west or north and south.
 "2. Location locations would have to be recorded in the U. s. Land Of flee, and there are only three in AL aska-at Juneau. Fairbanks and Nome. An noticas south of the AL aska Range would have to be record ed at Juneau. This includes the Cop per River Valley, Sus:tna Valley. Ke- mai Peninsula and even the Alaska l Peninsula. Ninety days are allowed i Ao get the no-ices to Juneau but | the worst f-atute would be that the | prospector would have to go to Ju- | neau to see the records whenever | he wanted to look up other location !. notices. And the present cry of economy will for a lcng time prevent the creation of any new land offices. | They are now abolishing many in the States |
 8. The location notices will all | have to be made upon blank forms | prescribed by the U. s. Surveyor Gener2f at Juneau. The prospector nnst be sure to have those blanks Il With him, or at least he would have to be careful to copy such forms ex- actly
 4. The annual assessment work will he at the rate of sj an acre, but the prosrector will be allowed 'o nay 1t m cash at the Juneau Land Ofhee lie could not even pay it to fhe District Recorder for road work. bm the money would go into the U. $. Treasury to be expended under he director of the Secretary of the 
 Time for Patent
 D. Applications for patent will nave 10 be madc SO that final entry ,an be completed within seven years rom the date of location. This would mean that the claim owner would have to begin his application within four years, because it usually axes thTee years from the time 'urvey IS begun. Of course. it might e rushed through in less time. but ne claim owner would be taking a 'erioas chance if he waited longer han Tour years, and he must pre-
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-08-30
LEoioNAiREs REJECT
 FOOLISH SUGGESTION

ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 30.-Dis- abled war veterans who. have taken up homestcads on a $500 aero tract Of land in Minnesota have refused to accept the Governments .sugges- tion taat the various plots be named for tn" great battles Of the World War. "onr wounds and ailmcnts are sufficient 10 remind us of our ex- they say.