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THE BRATTLEBORO DAILY REFORMER. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13; 1922.
Thoughtful Mothers ! "
Are You One of Them ?
"7S
All mothers bless
them are loving:
and devoted. How
n f ten we are led to
respect and admire
me mougni
ful mother" '
who provides
for emergen
cies and save3
her loved ones
from hours of
suffering and
herself from
needless anx
iety and sleep
less vigiL m
The season for colds, coutrhs. pneumonia, in
fluenza and catarrhal ailments is drawinsr near,
when the "thoughtful mother" makes up a full
, pint of pure, quickly effective cold and cough
j syrup; made at home by using pure concentrat
: ed Essence Mentho-Laxene (2Vi ozs.) mixed
with simple sugar syrup or strained honey.
' A pint of sugrar and a half pint of water makes
! the syrup in three minutes. The essence and
and the syrup are then poured into a pint bot
tle and is ready to use to prevent bad colds and
coughs getting worse. The very first dose gives
wonderful relief and in a few days all trace of
the congestion and catarrhal symptoms are
usually gone. The joy of 6eeing.the quick free
dom from co!d3,coughs and dantreroua compli
cations, the freedom from anxiety and sleepless
nights, to say nothing of the real economy of
. this home remedy is "worth its weight in gold"
! The drug store supplies the Essence Mentho
Laxene. Beet ever sold for cough or cold".
1 Send 5 cts. in stamps for trial bottle to
The Blockbura Products Co., Dayton, Ohio
Prize-winning
Cheese
We are distributors of
the cheeses which won
all the prizes at the Val
ley Fair.
This cheese is, of course,
the kind you want 'on
your table and is for
sale at all leading mer
chants in town.
If you have any trouble
in procuring it, call us
on the telephone and we
will tell you where to
obtain it. .
Mi
iilliiH
A Million Dollars
a Day
Fire loss in the
MEMItO
THE v
T T . . r-r
united states lh
this ve2r aver- CM nation ai
J (ASSOCIATION!
J f - r
000,000 daily.
Kerosene or makeshift heat
ing next winter due to coal
shortage won't reduce the
average.
A few dollars shifts your
worry to an organization
better able than you to stand
the loss.
Don't Worry Insure
Walter S. Pratt
Insurance Agency
Just Received
Anntripr .Shmmpnt nf
Pockescopes
The 4 1-2 Power Telescope
for
$2
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FRIDAY, OCrOBEK 13. 1022!
COLLEGE ARISTOCRACY.
1 Rather unexpected, in this age of hu
man quality, is the arraignment of
democracy by President Cuttenof Colgate
university. "Manhood suffrage", he la
ments, "has been our greatest failure,
and now we double it by granting uni
versal suffrage.''
He seems to think that "the people"
cannot rule themselves. He suggests, as
! the ideal system, government by an in
tellectual aristocracy, "an intellegentsia
which, while it might be found elsewhere,
is sure to be found in the colleges."
Most Americans will not agree with
President Cutten that manhood suffrage
has been a failure in this country. The
general impression is that we have got
along pretty well with it better, in
fact, than any of the European or
Asiatic nations have got along with
aristocratic government.
Few will question that college educa
tion is an excellent thing. Yet the influ
ence of the colleges on government is not
great, because college men seem to choose
their parties and cast their ballots pretty
much as do "hoi polio i'V Their superior
education enables them fo assert their
preferences or defend their prejudices
more skillfully, but their pratieal con
clusions are about the same. It is ques
tionable whether the decision of the college-trained
population regarding any
great public issue has even been much
sounder than the decision of the crowd.
The crowd is not able to think so
clearly or express itself so well, but it
Las a sort of instinct or intuition which
usually serves it in vital public matters
as well as the highly educated mind
serves its possessor. 1
P.ut if we grant that the best way is
to have a ruling class of intellectual
aristocrats, what then? There remains
the problem of obtaining and perpetuat
ing a sufficient supply of the "best peo
ple" to do the ruling. And that can be
done only by continuously replenishing
the supply of aristocrats from below, be
cause the highly developed stock at the
top always plays out. This means not
picking out aristocratic youths to go to
college but spreading college advantages
around in a democratic way to get hold
of the raw material for future aristo
crats, y
Samuel Spewack, an American writer
in Russia, says the American impression
of that country is that it is either the
millennium or hell let loose. But the
Russians themselves, he finds, don't
claim that the millennium has come.
And it hasn't. "People starve. Beggars
overflow. Grab and let grab seems the
philosophy of the masses in the city In
dustries are in desperate shape. And
yet, "the government is strong, and Rus
sia is rebuilding. A skyscraper in the
process of construction is not a pleasant
place." So it is not hell, either. Hell
is not constructive. Russia the new Rus
sia is rising out of the noise and dirt
and smoke. It may be a useful and dur
able structure wh"en it is finished, even
though the style of architecture does not
appeal to most of us.
There seems to bea growing impres
sion in this country that the first step
toward putting up with Europe is to put
up for her. 4 '
Maffy a boy who could not. be induced
to ekporce the. ynun ' ' J
pRDHiBrnor )s :fj
pi !
to put the family clothes line up is more
than eager to serve in the foot-ball line
up They're using snake poison now to
cure snake bites, instead of whiskey.
Maybe they'll get around eventually to
using the stuff as an antidote for alcohol
poisoning.
The trouble with a lot of these birds
who run for office is that they stand still
when they get it.
Farm Failures.
(Uarre Times.)
The increasing number of business
failures among the farmers of Vermont
is one of the most disturbing conditions
to develop in recent years. The farm
failures lead all others by a considerable
margin, whereas it might be expected,
perhaps, that farmers would be fully as
free from financial distress as merchants,
manufacturers and others more closely
related to commercial life. The reason
why more farmers are going into bank
ruptcy now than formerly would prob
ably be found largely in the personal
predilections of the iersons involved,
rather than from serious situation facing
the agricultural life of the state at the
present time. Farming is essentially
one of the most stable occupations, less
influenced by adverse currents of com
mercial life than many of the other more
common occupations; and failure to
make a fair-sized income or at least
to break even at the end of a year would
in very many cases be found to be the
fault of individual management and con
servation rather, than from marked de
Iression in the occupation. It is not
to be disputed, however, that the farm
er's outlook has been more or less
clouded by conditions relating to mar
kets for his own products by prices
charged him for things considered es
sential to carrying on a farm. It has
taken some close figuring in a somewhat
lean time, and those not good at figuring
or lax in hewing to the line of safety
have been caught in financial distress.
VERMONT NEWS.
Three children of Mr. and Mrs. Dorin
iceo Carangelo, who live in Pawlet but
only a mile outside of Greenville. N. Y..
have died within a few days of black
diphtheria. They were two, three and
six years old. The illness was not at
first " known and before the house was
quarantined the older children in the
family are said to have been about the
street and village of Granville, and milk
was taken from the place to the Gran
ville condensary. The sanitary condi
tions at the home are said to be very
bad. Vermont authorities toot up the
matter as soon as they were aware of it.
Burlington is to have an up-to-date
summer hotel on the lake shore south of
the city. Papers have just been signed
whereby the 40-acre esliite of George
Marshall Allen and his wife, Grace Fan
shawe Allen, of Morrustown, N. J., and
Burlington, will "be transferred to Ed
ward P. and Alice C. Woodbury of Bur
lington. The new owners will take pos
session immediately upon the passing of
the deed, though the property will remain
unoccupied until next spring when Mr.
AVoodbury will begin active operations to
fit tip the buildings on the property for a
first-class summer hotel. It will be
known as the Allenwood Inn. '-"
A petition for a receiver' has been
filed at the-office of the clerk of the
Fnited States court in Burlington hy
Herbert Higgenbotham of Somerville,
Mass., against the St. Albans & Swanton
Traction Co. The bill of complaint states
thaf the company operated 13 miles of
road between Swanton and St. Albans
bay prior to September, 1921, when the
service was stopped, the company owns
real estate, rolling stock and the usual
equipment. Lack of patronage was given
as the reason for the suspension of ac
tivities of the road. This was brought
about, it was stated, by, the increasing
number of automobiles, and the establish
ment of an automobile bus line over the
same route as the company's tracks.
There is no present or future prospect1 of
the line being operated at a profit, ac
cording to the bill of complaint.
He Ought to Get More Results for
I
The Meddler X
I "If
the cost fits yon. put it on."
The J?;tO,000 damage suit of the Ver
mont Valley railroad against the New
I England Power Co., an i
, high water of 1M20. has
outgrowth oX the
s ended (so far as
its present form is concerned) in a di
rected verdict for the defendant on the
ground among others that the railroad
(company had shown no liability on the
part of the power company. The offer
of settlement with the town of Brattle
boro for the loss of the bridge by the
same flood has been withdrawn by the
I power company. It would be unwise for
The Meddler t? say what he thinks of
the selectmen and their counsel for let
ting the town get into such a predica
ment; young children read the paper and
Tt portion of each issue is sent through
the mail. Of course, the railroad law
yers will take exceptions to the verdict,
thereby ensuring themselves of more fees,
but that doesn't make the outlook any
better so far as the town is concerned.
The Meddler has believed from the first
that the power company officials were
willing to settle with both town and rail
road on a fair basis. He is convinced
also that if the latter had shown the
same disposition all of the disputed
points could 'have been settled7 by agree
ment or by relatively inexpensive arbi
tration proceedings, thus saving thou
sands of dollars in counsel fees. " So far
as the town is concerned, there now
seems to be but one course, and that is
to settle with the power company on the
best terms that can be made. If the se
lectmen haven't sense enough to look at
the proposition in this light they better
turn the job over to someone who has.
1 In the course of approximately 300
miles of automobile driving over er
mont roads The Meddler had occasion
the past week to observe maintenance
methods in various portions of the state,
and the experience served, to strengthen
And He Did!
;AHQ HE DID-
GOSH
i MY
TBEE
tie Voot? HORSE WpSE
TO VtY TS?EE NO JftW
fc Gil
the - Money
Copyright, 1921, George Matthew Adams
his previous conviction that for some
reason or other the maintenance system
in this county doesn't begin to be a.s effi
cient as it ought to be. Traveling from
Stowe t Brattleboro by way of Water
bury, Waitsfield, Warren, Granville,
Rochester, Barnard, Woodstock, Spring
field and Bellows Falls a distance of
approximately 100 miles, after two or
three days of heavy rain, the worst road
of the entire journey in fact, the only
actually muddy road was between Bel
lows Falls and Brattleboro. The route
above mentioned does not lead through
a iopulous section of Vermont, much of
it, indeed, being along what might be
called the very backbone of the Green
mountains, yet there was hardly a mile
of it (north of Springfield) that did not
show the effect of constant attention
with a drag.
,
It was perfectly evident that dragging
was something more than an occasional
treatment of the highways of that , lo
cality, because despite the heavy rain
that had fallen there was no evidence of
deep ruts. Where drags were at work
and one came upon them every few
miles they were merely smoothing up
a surface that obviously had received
the same treatment a day or two before.
The roads were hard-packed. well
crowned and delightful to drive jver. Up
the Mad River valley, through Granville
Gulf anddown the White river valley,
through Barnard Gulf to Woodstock
and thence by way of Reading and Per
kinsville to. Springfield, the story was
practically the same to the- Charlestown
bridge. Then came a stretch of worn
out macadam for which New Hampshire
is responsible and one was in Windham
county. Getting back into Vermont, a
stranger might have expected easy trav
eling again and been disappointed. The
Meddler expected just what he got a
heavy rutty road over much of which a
scraper had cut so deep a slice as to
leave a continuous hillock of mud along
the center and make driving anywhere
but astride it an uncomfortable if not
dangerous occupation. From Putney
down it was better over the compara
tively new federal highway, but even
this bore no indication of the attention
roads up the state had been receiving at
a time when such attention does the most
good ; namely, in or immediately after
a rain.
'
What is the reason for the difference?
The Meddler asked himself that ques
tion as he neared home and has asked
it of several others since. . Various ex
planations have been advanced, most of
j them being based on the theory that the
siare nignway department snows favorit
ism Xo upstate folks. Of course, that
may Lave something to do with the sit
uation but as likely as not it isn't true.
More reasonable is the supposition that
towns which take the most pride in hav
ing good highways are most active in
going after-the money for them and by
that activity get niore state ;aid than
otherwise would come in their direction.
Whatever the underlying cause, it '.is
plain enough that highway patrol as it is
practiced in the vicinity of Bsattleboro
and as it is practiced in central ' and
northern Vermont are two entirely sep
arate and distinct processes the latter
highly efficient; the former merely a
method of extracting money from the
state treasury. Hereabouts there are
not only too few patrolmen but none who
apparently has an intelligent idea of
what efficient patrol Work is.
The project of a get-together meeting
of the Windham county legislative nomi-
pTu Rippl leg fliiiiisTM
TUB DOOMED SEVEN
My seven cousins used to drive before my cottage door, and they
seemed very much alive, but now they are no more. James Henry's car was
trimmed with brass, and blithely it would flee; he stepped too fiercely on
the gas and wound it round a tree. John drove a car with faulty brakes
he would not fix the same; we gathered up, with garden rakes, the frag
ments of his frame. Ned was a glad and smiling w iglij ;, where is that
springald now? lie ran without his lamps one night, and bumped against a
tow. Charles tried to cross a railway track before a rushing train; there
were itine fractures in his back, his head was rent in twain.v And Joseph
swung around a curve at fifty miles an hour; his monument you will observe
hard by yon old gray tower. Adolphus lit a match to see if he had gasoline,
and by the mere and on the lea he is no longer seen. Tbeophilus was prone
to race with other speeding boats, and o'er his q-uiet resting plae-e now graze
the village goats. No more their chugging vans I hear, no more their joyous
whoops; oh, other men have cousins dear, but mine have looked the loops.
Copyright by George
nees with the newly chosen county Re
publican committee and possibly Governor-to-be
Proctor is one of which The
Meddler heartily approves. The better
acquainted the prospective legislators be
come with each other before they get
to Montpelier the more quickly will the
work of the session get under way, and
with those of the , county already ac
quainted a considerable step in the right
direction already will have been taken.
It would be well, however, for the em
bryo law-makers to remember, when
they are listening as tliey may be called
upon to do to some silver-tongued ora
tor who has no chance 'of election to the
house or senate but is certain of admis
sion to the third house, that one of their
fundamental duties is to view each ques
tion not with relation to town or county
or individual interest but in the light of
its connection to the welfare of the
state as a whole.
BELITTLE
Me and pop was taking a wawk be
fore suppir, me asking questions and
pop ansering some of them, and we came
to a cigar store, pop saying, O, that re
minds ine, I havent a thing to smoak.
And we went in, pop saying to the
man. Let me have a half a duzzen liueen
Billie cigars.
Queen Billie. certainly, surely, but
bv the way. Id like to show you a re
markable value I have heer, spwia.l for
today, the man sed. Being a fat man
with thin hair, and he took out a box
of cigars and -opened it saying. Lord
Hamberg, 4 for 25 for today ony. look
at them, arent they bewtitill?
Yes, they remind me of the Grand
Canyon of Colorado in some ways, the
only trubble with them is. Ive tried
them allredy and theyre terrible, how
about those Queen Billies? pop sed.
0 yes, perhaps you"d be intristed in a
few Count de Tecdmonts the man sed.
Yes. the fewer the better, watW came
in beer for, if youll ixcuse me for men
tioning it, was half a dozen Queen Bil
lies, pop sed.
Half a duzzen? the man sed. And he
started to look erround saying. The
Duke of Nantucket makes a nice smoak.
So does bytuminous coal, have you
eny Queen Billies in stock or havent
you? pop sed.
Well to tell the truth I havent at the
present moment, would you care to look
at a fresh box of King Max perfectos?
the man sed.
On the contrary, pop sed. And he
wawked out, me following him saying.
I guess he wunted to sell you sum other
kind, pop, I sed.
1 don't know wat makes you think
so. I'm sHre. pop sed.
Proberly being sourcastie. '
VERMONT TEACHERS MEET.
Over 1,400 in Attendance at St. Johns
bury Yesterday's Speakers.
ST. JOHNSBURY. Oct., 13. The
.id annual convention f the Vermont
State Teachers' association began here
yesterday afternoon. Over 1.400 teach
ers are already in town and the entire
community has opened its homes for their
entertainment. The speakers of the
afternoon included Miss Etta Franklin
of Rutland, president of the association j
Rev. A. L. Hewitt, board of education ;
Commissioner-of Education Clarence II.
Iempsey, Gov. James Hartness and Dr.
Stephen Leacock, professor of political
economy."" McGill university, Montrael.
In the evening an entertainment pre
ceded a lecture. The Perils of Educa
tion, by Bishop E. II. Hughes of Boston.
The general and departmental sessions
contisiue until Saturday afternoon.
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Today's Events
Friday the thirteenth.
Centenary of the death of Antonio
Canova, one of the most famous sculp
tors of modern times,
Mrs. Langtry- (Lady de Bathe), for
merly a noted figure of the London stage,
is 70 years old today.
A bust of James Bryce, a gift from
the Sulgrave Institution, is to be pre
sented to Trinity church in New York
today. . .
The annual executive meeting of the
National Association of Real Estate
Boards will open in New Y'ork city to
day and continue over tomorrow.
Defying popular superstition. Lady
Doris Blackwood is to become the bride
of Captain Cecil Gunston at a fashion
able wedding in London today, on Fri
day, the thirteenth.
In the Day News.
John II. Puelicher, the new president
of the American Bankers' association, is
a native of Milwaukee and the head of
one of the big banking institutions of
that city. After finishing a public
school education he began his business
career in IHS-j as an office boy. In lSD-'i.
he became a discount clerk, in the bank
of which he is now the president. Mr!
Puelicher occupies a prominent position
among the nation's bankers as an aggres
sive advocate of sound education in
banking, finance and economics, both for
those engaged in. the banking profession
and for the general public. During the
war he took an active part in war fi
nance, acting as state director for Wis
consin of war savings stamps. In 1910
he was appointed" government director of
ssavings for the seventh, or Chicago, fed
eral reserve district.
Today's Anniversaries.
1819 David Greenleaf, who built the
first cotton gin in Mississippi,
died near Warrenton. Miss. Born
in Boston, Mass., March 0, 17(3.
1S41 British forces under Sir Hugh
Gough captured the important
Chinese city of Ning-po.
1S73 The new Macauley's theatre was
openedJn Louisville.
18S7 William Annand, former premier
of Nova Scotia, died in London.
Born in Halifax. N. S.. in 1S0S.
ISOOfjpnerai Rivers Buller left
England to take command of the
British forces in the war against
the Boers.
1009 Prof. Francisco Ferrer, accused
of revolutionary activity, was ex-
- ecu ted at Barcelona, causing great
excitement among Socialists
"throughout Europe.
1910 W. E. Stanley, former governor
of Kansas, died m Wichita'. Born
in Ohio in 1S4S.
1919 The cities off Broussa and Adri
anople sided with the Turkish Na
tionalist movement. s
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One Year , Ago Today.
Twenty thousand unemployed parded
in London.
New York Nationals won world's ser
ies from New York Americans.
Today's Birthdays.
Sir George Younger, leader of the
Unionist faction or "Die Hards' in Brit
ish politics, born 71 years ago today.
Edwin A. Itommel, Snfleher of the
Philadelphia American league baseball
team, born in Baltimore, 'Si years ago
today.
Ben W. Hooper, former governor of
Tennessee, now a member of the railroad
labor board, born at Newport, Tenn.,
"2 years ago today.
lit. Rev. Benjamin F. Keiley, for
many years, head of the Catholic diocese
of Savannah, born at Petersburgh, Va.,
75 years ago today. . .
HILDREtiS COLDS
6hould not bo "dosed." Treat
them externally with
Vapo Rud
Over 17 Million Jan Used Yearly
;pu put
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