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THE BRATTLEBORO DAILY REFORMER. WEDNESDAY, 3IARCH 9, 1921. We have received at Brat tleboro a car of Bowker's Phosphate which we offer from the car as follows: Bowker's Sure Crop Phos phate 1-8-2 Bowker's Potato and Vege table Phosphate 2-8-3 Bowker's Ail-Round Fertil izer 3-8-4, $G0.75 1 E. Crosby & Co. Brattleboro Vt. I E , ' JI-fJS-TJi t-s? tax c j Fl RE-PROOF LIQLUDr mriw imm i " I'.wa r C T A 7 G M k m w k nr i p POLISHING proof ' -H 17 i i, ..mini 7 ' ."V 3tT- Si 1 MTIWAfTIIW CTARVTEtD OR MO'iFY tEFfWW)" ft J APINCO CO.. BOSTON Mr t", sold by r XV. II. Miles & Son XV. J. Pent land, Jr. . "7- V. L. Lowe I'liu-rson & Son C;. O. AWxjtt & Son "? J. K. Rouers J. E. Bushnell . S. Wells & Son Wilder Farm Products Co. S. j. Purinton ? II. W. Goddard II. A. Steltbins , F. E. Youns & Son II.1UW WMM The Clear Crystal Lenses we use in our glasses are the only safe Uind to nse. Common, ready-made glasses arc deeidedly risky. Resides, no two eyes are alike in their needs. So it follows that only by expert examination of each eye van proper glasses be selected. We make such examinations and supply glasses at reasonable rates. OPTOMETRISTS) BRATTLEBORO, VT. "Gibson" Guitars and Mandolins and "Bacon" Banjos and Ukuleles can be obtained only if purchased from the undersigned. Special rates fot instruction and exceedingly easy terms on instruments. Two perfect "Gibson" Man dolins at a Real Bargain. Act quickly! . O. COOKE 16 Prospect Court "Phone Passenger and Baggage Transfer LOUIS I. ALLEN Tel. 5 W A X v J W... u k 1 Jt-Z.) Tuiirii nn wmrnfffiiMirianiiUM T(,,"t v'fir 1 1 stmniliiirinil NOTICE ! Published Every nice Except Sunday at The American Building Annex Main Street, Brattleboro, Vermont. Address All Communication! to The Reformer. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Single Copies Three Cent One Week Eighteen Cent One Month Seventy-Five Centi One Year Eight Dollars Entered in the postolEce at Brattleboro is second class matter. 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Daggett. Jamaica, R. J. Daggett. South Londonerry, F. II. Tyler. South Vernon, E. B. Buffum. Northfield, Mass., Thompson Bros. West Chesterfield, N. H., Mrs. W. Streeter Hinsdale, N. H., W. H. Lyman Greenfield, Mass., Greenfield News Co. Greenfield. Mass., C A. Hays. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 9, 1021. FICTION AM) FILMS. Recently William Allen White, reply ing to a woman's criticism of a movie drama attributed to him. replied frankly "I quite agree with you. It is the worst picture I ver saw. I am as much ashamed of it as you can be.'' Rut this was not modesty, tie proceeded to ex plain : "They changed the plot and made it a nasty sex thing." There may have been no connection but it is interesting to find that very soon after this incident the Authors' League of America, comprising nearly every author of distinction in the coun try, announced its intention of boycot ting a certain magazine publisher if he did not change his policy of insisting on an option to the movie rights when he bought a story. The league makes its protest in the name of literary art, and thereby starts an interesting discussion as to the relation of movies to literature. "If this jMilicy should spread to all the magazines, says the league, "the pro tit that is possible from speculating on mo tion pieture rights would be so inviting that editors, if they were good business men, would refuse to buy stories that had no motion picture value. Fiction, as such, would vanish from the mag azines. It would become nothing more than an advertising medium for future motion pictures. Great authors who pos sess nothing of what is known as motion picture value would find themselves with out publishers. "Writing and motion pictures," adds Louis Joseph Vance, "are two different arts. To combine them one. must neces sarily Ik subordinated, to the other. If the sale of taction is contingent uion its moving picture possibilities, the art of fiction will suffer and perhaps be de stroyed. The motion picture is an art. Rut it is a different thing from the fic tion story. Ry its very nature there is no literary form or style embodied in the picture. So if a story is written with its moving picture possibilities in mind, let ters must suffer." v The complaint seems legitimate. There is obvious danger that fiction, will be greatly modified by the influence of films, and that much of it will lie perverted in the process. Rut tho danger can hardly be so great as the authors think. There was a time, not long ago, when drama tists were afraid that tho "legitimate drama was doomed that the movies would sweep it all away, or else pervert it beyond recognition. And look at the speaking drama now! Never was it more prosperous. The movies are great, and potent for evil as for good, but they are not going to change the world. PAYING FOR EDUCATION. In most institutions of learning in the past the cost of education has greatly ex ceeded the tuition charged. Endowment and other funds have made up the deficit That is not to be the policy of Harvard's Graduate School of Business, which will raise its tuition next year from $230 to $400. This move is explained by the head of the school as follows: "We have business education on a cost basis in the belief that it shoulud be re garded as an investment which will ul timately pay good dividends m the form of increased earning power. A sound business education ought to be worth paying for at its full value. The school authorities recognize that many students possess limited funds when they commence their training There are liberal arrangements for loans. but every student is expected to be able to pay up in full eventually. The idea upheld, that, the business training is an investment to the student which is worth paying for, is good. All education is an investment, however, and in many instances no exact financial es timate of its worth can ever be made f&miPmmfWmmsiMSH sehbol, it is admitted that the tuition will not pay rP)r!lirj for future development of the school, for new buildings, for research and experi mental work, for use of physical equip ment such as lands, buildings, athletic grounds, etc., furnished by the univer sity. In the end, it appears, education can only lie paid for fully by service to ci vilization and to mankind. The 1G years and more, from the elementary schools on up through the highly specialized graduate schools, are really the nation's investment in its youth. School taxes and tuition pay only a small part of the post. The rest comes back in tho var ious forms of service that each generation renders. A DRINK IN DISGUISE. ' The question arose recently, in a law suit, whether sweet chocolate is a candy or a drink. It appears that the govern ment has been taxing it as a candy. The manufacturer insists that it is sold for household use as the ingredient of a beverage, and so is not subject to the luxury tax. Witnesses squarely disa greed on the subject, some testifying that they ate the chocolate and others that they drink it. The legal conclusion of this weighty matter will be forthcoming in due time. Meanwhile it may be worth mentioning that, regardless of technicalities, a com bination of chocolate aud sugar in any of the recognized forms is probably the nearest approach to a real "drink," so far as effectiveness is concerned, that may be found in this more or less arid land. Sugar is a natural substitute for al cohol. It is like alcohol chemically, and has much the same stimulating effect on the human system, except that it oper ates more slowly, over a longer period, and leaves no such reaction as an alco holic drink doe. Chocolate is also a stimulant, more powfrful thart sugar, and without an alcoholic reaction. The two make an excellent combination, as desirable in energizing efficiency as in flavor, useful in emergency and whole some if not indulged in to excess. Many a man, formerly accustomed to drink whis key or other strong beverage regularly but moderately, has found to his sur prise that for either mental or physi cal work when one is not feeling "fit," a few chocolates are better than a drink. The consumer can go farther on them, and get more done. A still more potent combination, but one to be used with discretion because it is a medicine as well as a food, is the familiar chocolate peppermint. RAILWAY PERILS. Accidents like the recent catastrophe on the New York Central line tend to arouse unjustified fears regarding the danger of railroad travel. Here are some simple facts, vouched for by statisticians, which any timorous traveler will do well to bear in mind when boarding a train or rounding a curve. During the last 30 years, while passenger traffic in the United States has increased more than 300 per. cent, the increase in the number ot passengers killed hast been only 1G per cent. Clearly, the degree of safety has increased enormously. The tendency to regard American railroads as particularly careless and "murderous" is today based on tradition rather than existing conditions. It may bo reassuring to learn what the chances are of losing one's life in a wreck. According to the best obtain able information, there is one passenger killed for a little more than every 100, 000,000 miles of passenger travel. Therefore a man who has traveled his 100,000,000 miles may fairly regard him self as a candidate for extinction. Ev idently the danger is not very immediate, even in the case of the most inveterate commuter. At this rate a passenger might reasonably expect to travel 100 miles a day for about 3,000 years before meeting his fate. Anyone who started at birth and spent his whole life on American trains would die of old age about 4."0 years before he lPGf Trir" his norinaT-' allotment of safe mileage. March Winds A SIGNIFICANT MEMORIAL. On the second of August France will erect a monument to Corporal Peugeot, the first soldier killed in the great war. The monument will be erected at the spot where he fell, on t!TC road from Joncherey to Faverolles, in French ter ritory near the border of Alsace. The memorial will have double significance. It will be a lasting mark of respvet to tho dead, but the inscription which it will carry is of greater moment. It will read "Here, on Sunday, August 2, 1014, at 10 o'clock in tho morning, more than 30 hours before war was declared on France, and at a time when the govern ment of the republic, in order to avoid all cause for conflict, had withdrawn her troops to a distance of 10 kilometres from the frontier, the Imperial and Royal Government of Germany caused the first French blood to be shed." It is well for this inscription to have publicity before it is inscribed in bronze or marble, for just now it is essential that men's minds he kept quite clear as to the issues at btake, in settling the peace of Europe. Corporal Peugeot, schoolmaster and soldier, shot by a treacherous foe while parleys to avoid war were still being conducted, being dead, yet speaketh. Whatever may be one's political faith, now is the time to forget irty differ ences, if one really wants the country to get ahead. It is a time neither for rushing wildly to grab the spoils, as a member of the party in power, nor for shaking the head dolefully at the dire re sults sure to follow if one belongs to the party out of luck. This is the time to take off the coat and get to work. The differences between Republican and Dem ocratic administration get much of the notice because they are so obvious. The likenesses are in reality much greater. The schools, the farms, the banks, the industries, the routine work of govern ment, all run along much the same under one president or another. The ideals for these things are tho same under all pres idents only methods differ, and those less than most people think. 'All these things need honest attention, honest work, honest co-oieration. No one is too obscure to do his bit toward the gen eral good, too small to have his effowt count. (Voperation is the word. All together, then! Swanton, which topped the wave of war prosperity through the operations of the Remington ixiwder plant in that town, has been dragging along ever since the factory was closed fJiortly after the armistice. It cannot be blamed, there fore, for chirking up at the news that the old Remington plant has been liought by an auto truck concern which plans And He Did! GU ICK 50VJ SUH INTO THE WAaTlN' ROOM AM SEE IP 1 LEFT A SUIT CASE OH THE !?ADlATO!?.TWE TRAIN 15 ABOUT READY TO AND HE DID- Yes mistei 1 r l Yes miste: V ( it's THESES I 7 'J W7 r - ' t r r, the employment of several hundred hands. In a letter to the St. Albans Messen ger H. S. Wardner says the senators who voted for the repeal of the primary law did more for the good name of Ver mont "than any group of men sine1 twelve Vermonters in a Washington county jury convicted Horace F. Gra ham." Endorsement of the use of thi illustration will depend on the point of view not only as to the primary law but as to the Graham case. Now that the Dunham Sunday bill has passed both branches of the legisla ture and bids fair to become a law shortly, it might amuse some statisti cian to figure out the decrease of law breaking that it will bring about. Cer tainly, it will be considerable. Why is it that more presidents have not followed Lincoln's inauguration day plan and kissed one girl from every state in the Union? It sounds like a pleas ant one and there are now several niore j states than in Lincoln's time. Great Britain has given daylight sav ing several years' trial and likes it so well that it is going to be put in force again from May to October this year. It is now practically a permanent institu tion in that country. Senator Johnson has nodded his ap proval of President Harding's inaugural address but reports come from Rerlin that it is disapiointing. Well, it is hard to please everybody all the time. The city of Newport, R. I., takes time by the forelock and asks that President and Mrs. Harding favorably consider Newport as their summer home during the President's term of officer Only 21 states in the Union can boast of -more automobiles registered ier imp utation than Vermont and it .looks a though she had set out to try and beat the 21. It's a strange story we read of a fur nace exploding in a Windsor home and doing $10,000 damage. Now if it had been a keg of home-brew . The Hydeville pullet who laid her first egg one day, three more the next and then died, gave up her life in the great cause of lower egg prices. Glad to observe National Fish day to day, but the real day will be when the fish come from our own basket. Who's "Will"? (St. Albans Messenger.) Think of the pleasant sensation Presi dent Harding must have had showing his father around the White House. And think what the elder Mr. Harding must think of his boy Will. A Proposed Amendment. (Bennington Banner.) An amendment to the state constitution has been proposed permitting the governor to call a special session of the legislature to act on one or more specific things. Sev eral times in recent years governors have been deterred from calling the legislature in special session lest it prolong the gath ering to consider many subjects. Former Governor Allen M. Fletcher urged this amendment in a recent address. Governor Clement last year called attention to the need of such a provision, and the late Governor Fletcher D. Proctor supported an amendment of this character a dozen years ago.- The Banner can see no reason why such an amendment should not be added to the Vermont constitution. Another Suggestion. (Barre Times.) The St. Johnsbury Caledonian suggests A. H. Dinsmore. superintendent of the United States fish hatchery at St. Johnsbury, as Vermont's next fish and game commissioner in the event of the governor and the legislature failing to get together on the name of tb present incumbent, Linus Leavens. Dinsmore would have the advantage of having had considerable experience in both lines of activity in the department. No doubt Governor Hartness will take the sugges tion under consideration. First Aid. "I'm getting an automobile. What is the first thing one ought to learn about isnzitr -r,.. i .'r Tue telephone number oithe nearest repair shop." Boston Transcript. CLIPPINGS I I With Now a Comment and Then Only a Caption awmiMUUBnMHmmnMiimMimiuira Lending a Helping Hand to the Land lord. , The Senate passed " the teachers WANTED: Woman in dish pantry. Pavilicu Hotel. Adv. in Montpelier Ar gus. - We'll Bet 'Twas a Garage. The item in the Whitingham news two weeks ago, stating that Arthur Pike had built a wagon house: was incorrect. He has not built one. Deerfield alley Times. It doesn't take long to tell a man jut what you think of him but it sometimes takes a long time to recover. My Dear, You Should Have Seen Them! It all developed over a newspaper and the habit of a Burlington resident to step out upon the porch for the paper before dressing in the morning. The spring latch on the door, however, functioned unexpectedly Thursday morning and wifey being a sound sleeper could not be aroused. A sympathetic house maid in a neighbor's family came to the res cue attired in a bathrobe over her neg ligee apparel, and nought to lend aid. Alas for good intentions, however, for friend wife at last responded to the call and found ixwr hubby in distress, l or tunately, explanations were satisfactory, and peace reigns in the family. But no nore will the aforementioned citizen grab eagerly for the paper which the wind has whisked beyond reach. Too much is enuf. What? Where wfis the mailt w-hen the door blew shut? Out on the ireh in his night shirt, but His wife slept hard, and the echo'ing sound Brought a " neighbor's maid. There they were found! OMAR CAYENNE in Bur lington News. Clearing the Way. The United Irish societies of this city will hold a banquet on March 1U. Rev. Fr. Meechan of Ireland, who testified be fore the committee of one hundred, will be the principal speaker. Dead animals removed. Tel. 1031-3 Middletown, Conn., item. Gone Locney. Word was received today from Miss Clemmie Reid at Okmulgee, Okla., to the effect that she is married to a Mr. Loon ey of that place. Aurora Advertiser. Horrors! As the days grow- longer the skirts W , . " f 1. : . -: .1 ,mii M;urirr. .uu IK? 11 l it K'Hm milig after all we are not going to have day light saving. Burlington News. As Ezra figures it. it would mean the girls would be in ballet length about June 21. An Ultimatum. A. Swanson is leaving for the cities to recuperate. We wish to warn those who have been in the habit of carrying liquor and drinking "hootch" in his shop, that if this practice is continued upon his return to Courtenay that we shall fine and prosecute to the limit - the parties making and furnishing father with home brewed or other booze. W. F. Swanson, J. G. Swanson. Mrs. A. Swanson. Courtenay Gazette. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dreebsel spent Wednesday of last week at the pleasant home of Mr. and Mrs. Stinman, where they assisted in doing the, family wash. Paxton, Mass., Record. Any open dates? Watch Your Step. Hilary Vandergrift has purchased a Ford car. Look out girls! Route Three item. Proper Exercise for Business Men. Rise 7 a.m. Stand in the middle of room, raise arms slowly overhead, take deep breath md say, "Damn the taxes," lowering arms irn attitude of despair. Ten times. Extend body flat downward on the loor, cover eyes with hands kick heels, think of the railroads and weep, till dry. Kneel, wring hands, meditate on the unions and groan lf0 times. Assume sitting position, hands on hips, sway gently to and fro and concentrate m the postal service until a generous frothing at the mouth sets in. While cooling off try to get a number jn the telephone. Observe this tdmple regime every morn ing before breakfast and you will reach the office with most of the cares and troubles of the day already out of your system. Ding, IkHig, Bell! Baby's in the Well. Mr. Walter Batey's little son had the misfortune of falling in a well Sunday evening. Aurora Advertiser. What's the Matter? Ben Miller's houn dog Fannie did not make her daily trip with Mr. Miller downtown Tuesday morning. Parkers burg Eclipse. Dull Times for the Correspondent. News is scarce this week. Somebody ought to start something. It has been whispered around that the wedding bells have been ringing, but we can't find anyone that will acknowledge that they are married. Wo wish to correct a mistake in last week's items. Mr. Snow killed three hogs instead of one. Correspondence in Nevada County Picayune. Today's Events Centenary of the birth of Alfred Ord way, celebrated American painter. The United States Fisheries association has designated today for the first country wide observance of National Fish day. One hundred and twenty-five years" ago today took place the marriage of Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine de Beauhanais. Clersvmen and educators from many cities are to gather in Rochester today for the general convention or the Keligious Education association. The memorv of John Ericsson, inventor of the Monitor, is to be honored at a pub lic dinner in New York city tonight, on the occasion of the 39th anniversary of the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimae. ' . . In the Day's News. A man who is the father of several in ..utrlau ia ValM-nnl Ci. Aeheson. who cele brates his (With birthday today, but it is nu ti tinvrpr of carborundum "that he Iu mnct- ti wlulf 1-nmvn lr. Aeheson WHS f n uiuii. f i'ii ... . ...... - - fmnift Washington, Pa., and began his Vareef iis-aft' assistant Iri the" laboratory of Thomas A. Edison, when Ldison was developing his incandescent lighting sys tem. While thus engaged the young assis tant conceived the idea of testing the effects of the intense heat that could be caused by electricity upon a mixture of clay and carbon. These experiments led to his discovery or invention of carborun dum, one of the hardest substances known. and a perfect substitute for the diamond in many uses of industry. That discovery led to another a method of producing graphite artificially from anthracite coal so cheaply as to be commercially practic able. Today's Anniversaries. 1GG1 Jules Mazarin, the famous French cardinal and statesman, died in Paris. Born in Naples, July 14, 1002. 1759 Sweden and Russia sisned a treaty for the neutrality of the Baltic. 1S34 Rome was visited by a snowfall, the first in 240 years. 184G Kashmir was ceded to the British by the treaty of Lahore. 1847 American army under Gen. Win lield Scott landed at Vera Cruz. 18G2 Battle between the Merrimae and the Monitor in Hampton Roads. 1SGG Fenians threatened an invasion of Canada from the United States. 19141 Thirty lives lost in a fire that de stroyed the home of the Missouri Athletic club in St. Louis. One Year Ago Today.- The senate adopted the Lenroot resolu tion mollified by Senator Lodge giving the United States equal voting power in th league of nations. Today's Birthdays. Eddie Foy, a popular comedian of the American stage, born in New York city, 7 years ago today. Charles Warren, former assistant attorney-general of the United States, born iu Boston, 53 years ago today. T. Waldo Smith, celebrated as a con structive engineer and builder, born at Lincoln, Mass., GO years ago today. Edward G. Acheson, the chemist to whom the world owes the discovery of carborundum, barn at Washington, Pa., C3 years ago today. Little Benny's Note Book Dy LEE PAPE. Last week I started to save up rubber bands, and this aftirnoon in skool I decided to stop saving them, and I took them out of my pockit and started to shoot them erround the' room to improve my aim, and snddinly all of a suddin, Miss Kitty sed, Wats this, who shot this rubber band on my dek? Me thinking, G. gosh, I wonder if it was ono of mine? And nobody scd who did it, and Miss Kitty sed, Charles Sinikins. did you shoot this rubber band up heer? No mam. I aint had a rubber band this week, sed Puds Simkins. ' It came from someware in that direck tion, sed Miss Kitty. Reing my direck tion, and Miss Kitty sed, Sidney Hunt, did you do it? No mam, I aint had a rubebr band this munth, sed Sid Hunt. Benny Potts, did you do it? sed Miss Kitty. Mam? who, me? I sed. Anser my question,, please, sed Miss Kitty". - I dont know, it mite of bin me, I sed. Wat do you meen, it mite of bin you? sed Miss Kitty, and I sed, I meen may be it was. Was it or was it not? sed Miss Kitty, and I sed. Well I kind of think so, but I wouldent wunt to sware it, because I dident axuilly see it fall on, your desk. Did you shoot a rubber band? sed Miss Kitty, and 1 sed, Yes mam. Being glad she dident ask mej if I shot more than one, and she sed. Well you may remain after skool a half hour for shoot ing it and another half hour for trying to get out of it. Wich I did, making a hour altogether. Just One Long Joy Rido. (Barre Times. ) The retiring mayor of the new city of Newport told the voters that his term "has been one of continuous pleasure." Newport must be an office-holder's para dise. X Maryland has at least two state elec tions each year and in some years four. LOGICAL ADVICE! Strike at the root of weak ness is logical advice to those rundown in vitality. Scott's Emulsion nourishes the body, tones the blood and helps build strength. ft Scott St Bowne. Eloomfield. N. J. 20-21 When .Your. Liffle CttlM cries at nislit, tosses red lessly aud tautters iu it3 sleeps is constipated, fretful and feverish, or has symptoms of worms, you feel wornt l a::l have your night's rest disturbed by the little one's crying, or perhaps because of your own auxicty. Many thousands of mothers rely at such times upon a triod nul trusted remedy always kept in the house, - Mother Graj's -Sweep . Powders' for 'Children, T'sed b; mot'ocrs for over 30 years. These powders cleanse lUe stomach, tct on the J.ivcr and srive healthful sleep by resrulatinir thecUilu'ssvstciu. l.nsy to irive ami pieas a ii; for i he child to take. Happy mothers ia every community are using them with splen did results. Mother, if yourchHd has the symptoms here described you should try these powders. Tm.ie Biark. Sold hy druggists Don'l acrept everywhere. any substitute. lie sure you ask for, and obtain, f Mclher Cray's Swecl Powasrs - FOR CHILDREN.