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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-01

tive point winner for his senior year
Moran and Robbins have been prime
factors in helping Brattleboro high school
win the state championship meets in Bur
lington the past three years. also all
other meets in which Brattleboro high
has participated during that time. and in
some of the meets the scores of these two
athletes have been more than the total
score of the second team.
Although the team viii miss Moran It
has some good performers left. and Coach
Diedrich Stolte expects to put a winning
aggregation in the field the coming year.
MercerSburg academy is one of the
best known preparatory schools in the
country and has wide reputation both
As TO scholarship and as to athletic
prowess. Moran plans to stay there two
years. His decision to make the change
came through conference with an instruc-
tor at Camp Namaschaug at Spofford
lake.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-01
BRATTLEBORO PERSONAL

Miss May Blake of Boston came to.
day to visit several days in the home of
her brother, Francis z. Blake of Linden
street.
w. IL Perry. bookkecper at the Yer
mont National bank and village treas
urer, left today with Mrs. Perry for a
two-weeks' vacation at Oak Bluffs, Mass.
Mrs. r. s. Mills and Mrs. II. A. Fox
of Brooklyn are visiting in the home of
\. III. Stearns and family of Western
avenue
Mrs Anna Proctor and daughter,
Miss Mildred Proctor. and Miss Ruby
Thurber have returned from two
weeks vacation at Hampton Beach.
Principal and Mrs Ernest r.. Caverly
returned Saturday from Fletcher, o.
where they had been spending three
weeks with Mrs. Caverly's relatives
Mrs. Flora Martin of Nonson. Mass.
who had been n guest a week of Miss
NJ. ]. Putnam of Prospect street, went
today to Springfield (Vt.) to visit before
returning to her home.
E. w May. clerk in the Hopkins store,
left today for weeks visit with rela-
tvcs in Orange. Mass. Mrs. May and
son. who have been spending several
weeks there, win return home with him.
Mrs A. @. Norcross has returned
from Rochester. n ", where she spent
hree months in the home of her daugh-
ter. Mrs j. w. Wood. Mrs. Ida Nc
Crellis and grandson, Ivan Reed. went
20 Rochester to accompany her home.
o. F. Benson and W. c. Mitchell re-
turned yesterday from Saco, Me-. where
they had been spending a vacation at
the Benson summer home. Mrs. Benson
and daughter, Nathalie. and Mrs.
Mitchell are remaining for longer stay |
Mr. and Mrs Richard A. Hopkins of
y J.. spent the weekend at
the home of his mother. Mrs. Jessie |
Hopkins of Washington street, going |
from here to spend a few weeks in camp |
at lake Rescue. Ludlow.
Mr. and Mrs. G.. T.. Fisk and son.
Chester. of Cleveland, O., are spending
the day with Mrs. T. p. Sears on Bel
mont avenue. They are making an auto
mobile tour through New England. The
son expects to remain Mt Mount Hermon
for the fall term. Mrs. Fisk is well
Known as a cartoonist and lecturer on
he Chautauqua circuit through the
West.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-01
BRATTLEBORO PERSONAL

George Grover began working this
week for the Crystal Springs Ice Co.
G. g. Hamilton will go Thursday to
Bennington to make his home with rela-
tives
F. A. Betterley left Sunday for To-
ledo. o., to drive back new autOmo-
bile
Mrs. B. c. Baldwin is spending the
week in Mortified Mass, attending the
meetings.
Miss Helen Smith of Minneapolis,
Mimi, came today to be a guest of Mr..
and Mrs. f. c, Adams.
Mrs. Abbie Atkinson of Albany, \.
York, visited at Mrs. Jessie Hopkins s
on Washington street over Sunday.
Miss Ethelyn Underwood of Linden
street. who is having a vacation, is in
Mortified for several days.
Miss Ida Butterfield of Weathersfield
is visiting in the home of her cousin,
Lewis J. Parmenter.
Mr.. and Mrs Ralph Church and chill
dren spent Sunday with friends in
Springfield. Mass.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Freeman of the
Barber building will go tomorrow to
spend two weeks in New York state.
NJ c. HoughtOn is in Newport, n.
H.. and Springfield (Vt.) today on bust
ness at the Houghton & Simonds stores
in those places.
Mrs Lewis Nutter and daughter,
Irene, who have been visiting in Auburn,
Me. for three weeks, will return home
today.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin A. Sawin moved
today from Canal street to the upper
apartment in ID. ID. Corey's house on
Chase street.
DIR. Harry p. Greene and mother. Mrs
l.. ID. Greene. are expected to return
tomorrow from Block Island, where they
have been two weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. J. Stolte and daugh.
ter, Mary, are expected to return to-
night from Hampton Beach, where they
have been a few weeks.
Mrs. Fannie Smith, who has been at
her home in Vergennes three months on
account of the illness of her mother, re
turned yesterday and resumed work in
Houghton & Simonds's store.
Mr.. and Mrs George X. Brooks and
children have returned from a vacation
spent at Hampton Beach Mr.. Brooks
resumed work this week in the whole
sale department of the Durham Brothers
Co.
Ralph Newell, who has been employed
at the Fort Drummer Mills, is working
temporarily for the Crystal Springs Ice
Co. Paul hobbs has finished work for
the company and began work this week
for the Durham Brothers Co.
Edward Hoffman of Montclair. n. J.,
who is spending the summer at Camp
Dudley on Lake Champlain. went yester-
day to Spofford lake to remain 10 days
with his aunt, Mrs. Charles III. Clark,
at the Sanford Smith cottage.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-01
legion Wins Five Games in Seven

The local legionaires have record of
FIVE games won and two lost in the seven
games played thus far this season. Burke
has pitched six of these contests, winA
ming four games and losing two. Jack"
Manley pitched the other game which
was a win over the Bellows Falls team.
BY reason of heavy batting in the last
two games Wells has climbed into first
place on the batting ladder with an aver
age of 400. Kennedy also has been hit
ting hard and is in second place with
1913. Burke is in third place with .3SS,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-01

only five points behind Kennedy. Burke
has an excellent opportunity to fatten
his average - he is not credited with as
many times a; lat as the other leaders.
Sparks leads ii the run getting, having
crossed the plate seven times in as many
Games Tavlor is close behind with six
runs and Kennedy and Austin are tied
for third with five each. In the fielding
averages Taylor leads in the putouts and
total chances with Wells close second,
Burke leads in the number of assists
with 20 to his credit. The standing:
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-01
MORAN GOING TO
MERCERSBURG, PA.
BrattleborO High School to Lose Captain
and for Three Years Star Performer
of Its Track Team.

Through a decision of Eugene Moran
to enter Mercersburg academy, MERGERS
burg. Pa. Brattleboro high school loses
the star performer on Its track team and
the man who was elected to captain the
team the coming year. Moran finished his
Junior year last June. At that time Fred
Robbins. Noran's nearest competitor for
high school track honors, graduated. leay-
ing Moran easily the principal prospec-
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-01
National League.
GAMES TODAY.
American League.

AmtFICdH ItdsUts
Boston at st. Louis.
New York at Chicago.
Philadelphia at Detroit.
Washington at Cleveland.
National League.
Cincinnati at Boston.
Pittsburgh at New York.
st. Louis at Brooklyn.
Chicago at Philadelphia.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-01
$I.OO for Your Old Hat

Bring your old hat with you tomorrow
morning when you visit our Mil
linery Department We will credit
you with $100 for it on the price of
a new hat The old hats will be
given to charity.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-01

ADVERTISE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS THE REFORMER
The New York herald., 1922-02-07
Keeping Within Its Income.

The State Government is conduct
ing itself like a sound business insti-
tuition when it keeps its expenditures
so well within its income that its
surplus goes up from. S31 100000 to
S43,600.O0O, as Comptroller WENDELL $
report shows it did in the fiscal year
ending with last June.
The benefit of such a condition OF
affairs was shown when the State
administration found itself able in
the present fiscal year to use nearly
$13,000,000 of it's big surplus to lower
taxation, the State tax upon the coun-
ties being reduced to that extent.
For the next fiscal year, with so ade-
quate surplus as is expect ed to be
left after next June to take care of
all reasonable contingencies, Cover
nor MrLLEEs able Administration sees
no excuse for any increase in State
taxation. 1t may be deemed advan-
tageOus, in fact, to cut the taxes still
more, letting the surplus again pro-
vide some of the funds for running
expenses.
But one thing which competent
business management in private af-
fairs would want to do with an over
abundant surplus would be to use
some of 1t in reducing debt princi-
pal and interest charges. Against
the States funded debt of some S267,-
$4,000 have been accumulated sink
ing funds to the amount of more
than S79,000,000. One of the finan.
cial reforms which ought to come and
will come sooner or later in the
handling Of the States business is
payment of debts as fast as they
can be cleared away with extinguish-
ment funds, surplus revenues or any
other moneys that can be so used to
lower interest charges.
This, however, involves changes in
the State laws, fundamental and leg
islative. which could not be worked
out Immediately. Meanwhile the
State Government is in good business
when it holds down expenses,
whether it has big surplus or not
as Governor MILLER's Administration
is doing.
The New York herald., 1922-02-07
Massachusetts Industries.

With allowance made for the diff.
ference in the dollars purchasing
power the value of 90 industrial
products OF Massachusetts, Increased
SO per cent. between 1914 and 1919.
During this same war period, and ap-
plying the same system of dollar
measurement, the value Of the manu-
featured products OF the United
States as whole increased 81 per
cent. This record does not by any
means indicate that the Bay State is
tagging behind in the industrial pro-
cession.
This is the conclusion reached by
the general manager of the Asso-
ciated Industries of Massachusetts, in
his annual report presented at a
recent meeting in Boston. "A State" "
he remarks, that in five years in
creases its primary horsepower "a
per cent; the invested capital in in
dustrial plants 81 per cent; the
wages of industrial employees 142
per cent; the number of salaried
employees 80 per cent, and the total
Of wage earners Is per cent. as
Massachusetts did between 1914 and
1910" is not developing any vci '
disquieting symptoms of going into
an industrial decline.
All this is true, even though the
informative value OF the figures adj
duced is somewhat obscured by the
fact that they include the years of
feverish war activity. The sugges.
tion too that more recently devel-
oped industries, such as those dc.
pendent on automobile manufacture,
have not been established i'm Massa.
chusetts naturally raises the question
OF why they we're not established
there as well as elsewhere in New
England. Mr.. MAXIM OF Hartford
discussed this subject few months
ago. The inference from his remarks
was that New England had the auto.
mobile industry within reach in the
early days Of that industry, but let
IL slip away.
There is no doubt that New Eng
land industries labor under disadvan.
tagcs in competition with those of
The New York herald., 1922-02-07

the Conference. Alike in his thorough
preparation for the Conference and
in the handling of the Conference
throughout as it's chairman Secretary
HUGHES registered himself a gigantic
figure.
In his selection of Secretary
HuCHEs to head the American delega-
tfea and in his selection of the three
other members, ELIHU RooT and
Senators LODGE and UNDERWOOD, the
President showed great wisdom.
There is no more distinguished man
in inherent ability, in knowledge of
world diplomacy and in knowledge Of
international law than Mr.. RooT.
Altogether the American delegates
ranked high with the very distin-
guished and thoroughly trained dele
gates from the Old World.
The New York herald., 1922-02-07
MISS HESS HEARD AGAIN.
English Pianist Confirms Pleasing
Impression of Earlier Recital.

Miss Myra Hess. an English pianist
who made her debut here not long ago
gave her second recital yesterday In
Aeolian Hall. The program consisted OF
Mozart's G. major sonata. Chopin's so
nata in g flat minor, the Brahms waltZes
opus 50. and some shorter numbers
Miss Hess confirmed the pleasing i'm
preston made at her first recital. She
Is a pianist of intelligence, possessing a
well developed technic which enables
her generally TO carry out her artistic
purposes without the restraint imposed
by continual attention to mere me-
chanics.
Her Mozart performance was smooth
and r>ivsical. In the Chopin sonata she
was cCoi and well poised rather than
lyric or impassioned. 1t was a SYM
metrical performance In which the high.
est fIieht was the beauty Of tone cy-
hib.ted in the cantilena of the fIneral
march. The audience was OF good size
apparently little larger than that
which was present at the young iadys
debut. and its applause was hearty.
The New York herald., 1922-02-07

some other parts of the country.
Comparative remoteness from the
sources of fuel and raw material, the
high cost of transportation, the aban-
donment of the local food producing
areas are heavy handicaps. But they
are not insurmountable. New Eng
land farm lands now uncultivated
and capable of food production in
large quantities are as good as lands
in distant States on which New Eng
land is now depending for nearly rs
per cent. of her supplies. These lands
can and may again be put into pro-
duction.
That there are these grave difficult
ties in the way Of maintaining New
Englands industrial prestige is in
disputable. But difficulties, however
grave, never yet have been things
which Yankee energy and Yankee
brains have feared to tackle. When
New Englanders are put on their
mottle to do hard job then is the
time when they are at their best.
The New York herald., 1922-02-07

military experience he rose to the
rank OF General. His surprise OF
the British at Sanna's Post was con-
sldered one OF the most brilliant
strategic moves made by a Boer COM
mander in the war, while his sue
cess in outwitting the pursuit of Cen
eral ROBERTS and General KITCHENER
was praised by these British Off
GERS as evidence of high military
ability. When De WET was captured
in December, 1914, ne had a mere
handful of men, and he apparently
had no connection with any other
revolutionary bodies. He seemed to
have a perverted idea of the world
war and to have had no understand
ing of the movement of which he
was the supposed head 1t became
evident to those who met him at the
time that he was mere tool of
other discontented men and that
these had used the fact of his resig-
nation as Minister of Agriculture of
the Orange Free State in an effort to
bolster up their rebellion.
DE WET entirely lacked the vision
of either BoTHA or SHUTS. He could
not view the defeat of the Beers phil
| osophically; to him the reactlonary
HERzoG was hero and patriot. To
both these men British imperialism
was important "only when it was
useful TO South Africa, to its land
and its people" At heart he was un-
doubtedly never reconstructed. al
though he became a member of the
Ministry of the Orange Free State af.
ter it had entered the Union of South
Africa. lie was ever dreaming of a
Dutch South Africa; for him the pa
triarchaI Boer rule was sufficient.
With him passed the last of the
irreconcilables among the outstaud-
ing Boer leaders.
The New York herald., 1922-02-07
The Coal Strike Threat.

When bituminous coal leaders de-
clare they will not listen to a wage
readjustment upon the expiration of
the present contract at the close OF
next month it is equivalent to their
declaring they want the union men
to stay out of work. for the cold facts
are that there already have been
wage reductions in the non-union dis
tricts and the non-union mines and
workers are to-day getting the bulk
of the soft coal business and have
been getting it for months.
In the union fields the mines are
generally either on part time or shut
down altogether because at existing
costs they cannot compete in mar
kets abroad or even in our own home
markets. To call strikes all along
the line in the union districts would
throw out OF employment only the
relatively few union workers that
still have jobs, while giving the whole
coal market over to the non-union
mines and workers.
There will be no strikes in the
non-union fields because, in contrast
to the union fields where unemploy-
ment and want are rife, the nori-
union workers are now holding their
jobs and making steady earnings by
very reason Of their willingness to
meet conditions that demanded lower
coal costs or no production. The nom
union men who have continued at
work while the union men were un-
employed will have nothing to lose
and everything to gain if union men,
bers go out and leave the market en-
tirely to them.
When Mr.. LEWIS, the president of
the United Mine Workers, declares,
therefore, that there will be strike
of his organization before it will
take wage cut either he does not
mean what he says or he means that
he is willing to have all the Goa!
mining of this country done by non
union labor.
The New York herald., 1922-02-07
Hidden Words.
A Chance 10 Guess at Two Mysterious
Combinations OF Letters.

TO THE NEW York HERALD: The
words in words puzzle by IS. \. T." Is
n good one when correctly interpreted.
II evidently means form Il II / N
ST L into n combination contain
ing seventeen or more English words
of two or more letters each by spelling
forward or backward, using for each
word letters in actual contact without
changing their order of succession"
have arranged for future use diff
fcrcnt combination of ten letters produc-
ing twenty-sx words. nine letters twen-
ty-four words and seven letters twenty
one words.
On the original combination / submit
U S III II II A r I o n and twenty
four words: ar. are, at. eh, chs. era, he.
her, 10, ion, 1t. no, on. ra. rat, ratio,
ration, re. she. ia. tar tare. us, usher.
I know two words using exactly the
same letters, no two alike, no two in
contact In one word are In contact In
the other and extreme letters of each
arc in interior of the other. 1t is in
teresting that two words of the highest
national Importance should have such
a Relationship, and though / have known
It for fifty years it has never been pub
lished. JAMES PILLOW.
CoLp SPRING ON HUDSON, February 6.
The New York herald., 1922-02-07
Reckless Smokers.

A normally loaded ferryboat in
New York waters carries motor vehi-
cles with about $50 gallons of gaso-
line in their tanks. Its deck plank
ing is oil soaked. A spark dropped
on the inflammable material might
start serious fire.
Because of this danger ferry own
ers have adopted rules restricting
smoking to one inclosed cabin. Pas
sengers are warned not to smoke
where lighted matches or sparks
from cigars, pipes or cigarettes may
imperil their safety and the safety OF
others. The restriction is reasonable
Failure to enforce it would be culpa-
BILE carelessness.
In spite of the obvious necessity
for thus safeguarding human safety
smokers disregard the restriction
every day. They violate IL willfully,
after being warned. after the reason
for its adoption has been explained to
them. When members of the ferry
boat crew order them to stop smoking
in the forbidden places many men,
not all needless youngsters, watch
for the deckhands to turn their backs
and then puff their cigars or ciga-
rettes on the sly. Some, when they
are caught. question the authority Of
the members of the crew, defy them
to enforce the regulation and assert
their right" to smoke where they
please, regardless of danger.
If ferryboat gets afire because of
the conduct of one of these reckless
smokers the ferry company will not
be responsible for the damage that is
done.
The New York herald., 1922-02-07
Last of the Boer Irreconcilables.

Until the cables brought the brief
announcement yesterday of the death
of General CHRISTIAN De WET the
world had heard little of this grim
faced old Boer warrior since his con-
nection with the rebellion in the
Orange Free State at the outbreak of
the world war. At that time public
opinion in England was much di.
vided upon the question of his guilt
and the punishment which should be
meted out to him. Against a demand
that for his gross and fragrant
treachery he should not be accorded
even soldiers death" there were
many appeals for lenity for a man
who in the Boer war had demon
strated his genius as a military tao
tician and who at all times was a
humane commander. He was tried
on the charge OF treason and sen
fenced to pay a fine and to serve six
years Imprisonment. He served only
six months of this sentence.
This episode in General Dr. VETS
career was apparently as unexplain-
able as many others Of his public acts
which were so puzzlins to his two
younger comrades in arms. JAN
CHRISTIAN SHUTS and LOUIS BoTHA.
DE WET was q silent, rather dour
man, about whom there always
seemed an air Of mystery. At the
end of the Boer war he was believed
on account of his suffering3 and his
implacable hatred of the enemy TO
he mental wreck; and it was as
serted that this was one Of the rea.
sons that General BorHA. a3 the Boer
commander in chief, finally opened
negotiations with British military
authorities for the conclusion OF
peace.
Before the Bocr war De WIZ had
been q farmer Practically without
The New York herald., 1922-02-07
Penalizing Evolution.
A General Statute to Cover All Man.
Kind Proposed.

To The New YORK HERALD: 1t was
edifying to read in your paper that the
Kentucky Legislature has before it bills
to prohibit the teaching of the theory OF
evolution in the public schools and State
University of that glorious Common
wealth.
l am confident the proponents of that
legislation will agree with me in feel
ing that any such laws as may be en-
acted should go further than is appar-
emily contemplated. OF what avail will
be prohibition against teaching evolu-
tion if the process itself be allowed to
function?
1t might Justly subject one to the
charge of lack of liberation and be
deemed radical-or would 1t be reac-
tive Immediately. putting an end to all
development Obviously desirable as
that would be. hesitate presently to
go so far. and restrain myself to the
proposal of a law, supplementing the
pending bills. to affect the one species
still untrammeled by regulatory legis-
lation--man.
The details Of the law can be readily
supplied from its title. My fear is it
would fail of passage without a proviso
exempting lawmakers from its opera
ton; however appropriate. the constitu-
tionality OF such an exception seems
doubtful
1t should be entitled "An act 20 pro-
hib!t the evolution OF individuals into
fools" PIrHEcANrH RoPUs EREcTus.
New YORK, February s.