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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-03-29
IMPORTANT BLACK HAND MOVE
United States Detectives TO Break up
Reign Of Terror at Chicago


Reign Of Terror at Chicago
Chicago, March 29.-United States
secret service operatives are about to
explode n black hand bomb that Is
expected finally to bring TO justice
officers and members OF that body
that In little more than one year
has claimed nearly forty lives and
caused n reign OF terror In the ltal.
ian district.
The threat upon the life Of Judge
X. NJ. Landls OF the United States
district court was but one feature OF
a program OF threats and blackmail
that has been carried into the midst
OF the governments department OF
justice In Chicago.
The threats resulted In the recall
ing of members Of the +. q. Alongi
Jury which disagreed after hearing
evidence In n black hand case week
ago an d the discovery that members
OF the jury had been terrorized and
that their inability TO reach a verdict
probably was the direct result OF
these threats. The recent threats up
on Judge lands upon jurors and yes.
terday upon the life OF a member Of
Assistant Chief OF Police Schuttler's
stan, are expected to hasten the sche.
duled arrests II Is known that nu.
merous Italian secret service men. i'm.
ported from New York In order to
prevent them being marked by the or.
ganization which is being lnvestigat.
ed are at work seeking evidence to
be used In the scheduled move OF the
government
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-03-29
VERMONT NEWS
Items of Interest from Fourteen coun
ties of State

Items Of Interest from Fourteen Coun
ties of State
Announcement is made that the di-
rectors of the Fort Dummer Mills
had let the contract for the construc.
ton of the new textile mill on Fort
Dummer Heights in Brattleboro to j.
w. Bishop and Co., of Worcester,
Mass, at about 100000 Work begins
at once and construction is supposed
to be completed August l. About the
same time the necessary tenement
houses will be begun.
Norman r. Chase who owns farm
near Woodstock on the Pomfret road
is framing a new building which will
be one OF the largest dairy barns in
the county If not in the state The
main barn will be so x 100 feet and
the stable, running at right angles
with it, making letter T of the struc
ture, 40 50 feet The stable will
hold 40 cows and there will be plenty
Of light and good ventilation.
Burlington is TO have an army of
young home gardeners this coming
spring and summer and some time
next fall it is expected that the upper
floor OF the city hall building will
blossom forth with a display OF flow
ers and vegetables that have been
cultivated entirely by the school chill.
dren of the city The work is to be
conducted under the joint direction
of the civic committee Of the Klifa
Club and H. S. Howard, secretary OF
the Burlington Commercial club with
the assistance of the teachers in the
schools and the cooperation OF par
ents.
A plumber at work in the bach
room of the Chinese laundry in Wood
stock last week found a fuse-like ar
rangement that seems to have beer
intended to FIRE the building 1t fail
ed to work, and first class blaze
was averted A piece of twisted
cloth partly saturated with oil lay oil
the floor, and one end was charreC
as II it had been ignited and had fail
ed to burn. The last occupant OF thu
laundry left several months ago dis
appearing suddenly. A few week
ago a former laundryman here VIII,
was seen in Ashburnham. Mass, salt
that the missing Chinaman told hin
he left here because the buildings hat
burned up.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-03-29
PRIEST TALKS SOCIALISM
Philosophers Many Beliefs, Speak
Of God Given Rluhtsn

EHilOoOpfl[Co WdUy DCllGIof OpcdkS
Of God Given Rights"
The Lenten course OF lectures on
Socialism, conducted by Rev. DR.
James J. Fox, of Washington Catho-
lie University, at the Catholic club,
Central Park South. were continued
last Saturday night. The subject
chosen by DR.. Fox, The Fundamental
Errors of Socialist Philosophy" was
handled in the same manner that
he treated previous subjects.
No attempt was made TO misrepre-
sent or exaggerate Socialism.
An exception a Socialist could take
to the lecturer was the title he sell
ected. For instead of pointing out
errors OF Socialism, Or. Fox told his
flock the fundamental difference be-
tween a materialistic collective SOC
iety and an individual society colored
or shaped by benevolent ecclesiastic-
ism.
He began with a definition of the
materialistic conception OF history
and explained what was meant by the
economic Interpretation of history as
generally understood. He thought
that too close application to such
doctrines was contrary to the stan
dards of the Catholic and other
churches. He fastened to explain
that the acceptance of the economic
Interpretation of history was not nee
ssarily a part of the Socialist phil
osophy. and did not need to be accept.
ed in the movement for the general
advance and welfare OF the working
] class, such as reduction OF the hours
of toll. or an advance In the wages
OF the toiler.
The lecturer said Socialists laid
too much stress on economics. and
by so doing had a tendency TO elm.
mate all ideas OF future life and prac,
tically set aside the importance OF re-
ligious ideals He exonerated the SO.
cialists from complete acceptance OF
this theory.
DR.. Fox next tried to define morals
as understood by the Socialists. He
said one was moral or immoral as one
did we'll or III Of society or his neigh,
Dor A social act that was to the
good Of the community was moral, an
unsocial act immoral
Here" he said, lis where the Soc.
ialists came in conflict with the Cath.
Ollie and other churches who hold that
n man has individual responsibility
rights. and duties given him by God.
He added that God.given rights
were not to be ignored of labor to the
worker and pursuit Of happiness were
lGod.given.
"The state is a means to secure
those rights. say the Socialists, but
they should remember that man lived
and had rights antecedent to the
state, such as regulation Of home and
welfare OF the family"
When he mentioned free love many
expected the usual SANDER but they
were surprised when he said Social
ism was not free love. nor were Soc
iallsts free lovers. The movement
should not be held accountable fol
the acts OF few individuals DR. 70,
disagreed with Roosevelt, and he add
ed Socialists are not atheists. There
was no connection between atheism
or free love end Socialism, he said
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-03-29
WHEN UNCLE SAM BUYS CLOTH
Fabric in Uniforms Has to Undergo
Some Severe Tests

The men of the United States army
come nearer knowing to a certainty
what they are buying in the way of
cloth than do any other consumers in
the country, says Mary Heaton Worse
in Success Magazine" When the
government gives out million dollar
cloth contract, it sees to it that il gets
material according to specification.
The specific contracts for various
sorts of cloth are elaborate and go
into the technical side of the matter;
the number of threads to be used
to the yard, the kind of wool to be
used in the manufacture-for the
United States soldier has to be well
dressed in clothes that will stand the
strain of weather and work. On Gov
ernors Island, New York City, there
is a testing laboratory for cloth. A
specification of the weight per linear
yard OF each kind of cloth is men
toned; each bolt of goods is weighed
and If It falls short of the proper
weight it is thrown out. Next the
question of wear and tear is consid.
cred and again the specification is
stated that each special kind of cloth
will stand a strain of so many pounds
to the inch filling way. SO after
weighing, the next test is to cut q
sample and try in machine the
strength of the cloth. II it won't
stand this test the cloth is thrown
out.
After the cloth has been pronoun
ced perfect for weight and strength
the dye tests are made; 1t must stand
two acid tests for perspiration and
the material must stand boiling fol
ten minutes in a certain soap solut
ion, showing that 1t will stand wash
ing with strong alkalis; and finally
comes the weather test, the materia
being exposed thirty days on the roo
without changing color appreciably
| If the cloth has passed its examina
tons successfully, each yard of eacl
piece OF cloth is inspected, being ruI
over machines for the purpose, while
inspectors watch for any imperfec
tions in the weave An eighth of I
yard for each imperfection is charged
to the manufacturer.
So when the cloth is finally sen
to the contractor to be made into uni
forms. Il is known to be OF really goot
material. Each spool of thread, eacl
button, each lining. each filling useC
lin the clothes of soldiers has Its owl
Especial test
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-03-29
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
iews of the Iowa and Village Told Briefb
tor Busy Readers.

Special meeting of the Foresters.
Court Bennington, No. IL, at 8 o.
clock sharp this evening.
Mr. Mills talk tomorrow evening at
the chapel service will be upon "The
Bible in English" II is expected that
an exhibition can be arranged of fac
smile editions Of the early English
Bible.
The members of the N. E. o p.
lodge will meet the financial secretary
at the lodge rooms every Tuesday
and Friday nights from 1880 until 8
O'Clock. Lodge meeting nights from
z until the close of the meetings
This will give all an opportunity Of
meeting the financial secretary regu-
larly so that the time will accommo-
date all members.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-03-29
Or. WASHINGTON MlsouoTEo
Never Said That UlrIeh Was Justi-
fed In Attacking Him.

Philadelphia, March 29.-Booker
T. Washington did not say Ulrich
was justified. as some OF the morning
newspapers assert lie said, accord.
ing to John s. Durham, his host while
here:
Il would see no necessity to prose
cute the man for the personal Injury
done me because OF mistaken identi.
~ but when he sought to excuse the
attack by declaring that was a
would.be kidnapper, had peeped
through keyhole and had acoosted
woman, | was compelled TO deny the
assertions to protect my reputation
and my work.
Washington never said to anyone
here that Ulrich did right to beat him
and the inference that he said the at
tack was justified could not leglti.
mately be drawn from his remarks.
Washington is now In Tuskeegee.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-03-29
TO PRorEcT PACIFIC EAuNA
Great Britain, Japan, Russia and the
United States to Confer In May

Washington, March 29.-The con
ference between Great Britain. Japan,
Russia and the United States for the
negotiation of an international agree
ment for the protection and preserva-
ton of the fauna of the Pacific ocean
will be held in Washington during
May, according to an official an
nouncement made by the state depart
ment today.
First consideration will be given
the protection and preservation of
fur seals, threatened with extinction
unless international restrictive meas
ures are adopted.
The conference will take up the
question of the adoption of an inter
national game law to protect sea OF
ter and other mammals of the sea
and also plumage birds and their
breeding grounds.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-03-29

Many Socialists in France were anti
Christian, but so were the bourgeois
lie.
DR.. Fox paid tribute to the Social
lists for their zeal and devotion to
the movement. He told how the So
cialists of Milwaukee and other cities
went about distributing literature ad-
vocating their theories. without re-
ward or benefit.
The Socialists receive very little
outside support, nearly all the funds
coming from the members themselves
He admitted that many crimes may
be abolished by the introduction Of
Socialism. In support of his many
statements on Socialism, DIR. Fox
read extracts from books by Pearson,
Karl Marx and Lawrence Gronlund.--
New York Call
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-03-29
LEAVES $1,000 TO HER CAT
Boston Woman Wanted Pussy to Live
In Regal Manner

Boston. Mass. March $50 that
her twelve year old cat could live in
luxury the rest OF her life $1,000 was
left by the late Mrs. Julia X. Barber
of Boston. This pet, now sleeping on
the softest of cushions, drinking the
choicest OF cream and in every way
being handled with the care which a
trained nurse would dispense TO a
dangerously III patient, is to be found
at the home OF Mrs Margaret Hurley
in Worcester who is pussy's guard.
an.
The $1,000 Is to be disbursed ac-
cording to the will, in sums of S125 a
year thus making It possible for pus.
sy TO live In regal manner for eight
years to come.
Mrs, Barber throughout her life
was a lover of animals and had al.
ways taken much interest in move
ments tending to further their cause
She had many pets.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-03-29
NORTH WHITE CREEK

Harold Luke was home over Sun.
day.
Edward Bailey has been sick with
pneumonia.
Charles Bennett has returned from
Lake George on business.
William Luke has sold his place
here and purchased place OF Hugh
Martin OF Ashgrove.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-03-29
Sick Headache

Is simply urgent notice from Nature
that your digestive organs are foul.
clogged, diseased.
HOODS PILLS by speedy. easy,
soothing effect thoroughly cleanse,
purify and invigorate. 25c.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-03-29
MoRRlsrowN ACCEPTS OFFER
viii Appropriate $500 a Year TO Sup.
port a $4,000 Carnegie Library

Morris,llle. March 2e.-Morristown
will accept the oIer OF Andrew Car
ncgie for new $4,000 library building
and will appropriate $500 each year
for the support Of the library.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-03-29
c. JAY DYER
Graduate Electrician.

Interior wiring. door bells. annun-
GATORS. motors etc. installed and re-
paired. All supplies and work at re.
asonable prices. DR.. Lewis Office
Near Y. M. c. A Tel. S7.l2 Benn-
ington Vt.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-03-29

An eAtcrlcuced domestic nuue, making a
,nsrinlty OF confinement cases Mrs. II. III.
Amo sar- II A. J. Knapp, at the rscrvoir.
The labor world., 1911-01-28
VICTIMS OF "PHossY: JAW"
HELP MATCH TRUST
Continued from Page 1.

consists Of the manufacture of
matches with the use of poisonous
phosphorous. There are sixteen fac
tories in the United States. y Aa in
tensive investigation by DR.. Andrews
in the homes of the work peoples Of
three factories yielded a. total: .ssof
eighty-two cases Of phosphorous poi
soning. !, Records Of more: than one
hundred cases of the disease; were
discovered in a very short time. In
two factories at east, eight perfectly
authenticated serious cases are known
to have occurred during the year inn
mediately preceding the investigation.
and references were found to- Others
just as recent. The disease seems to
be equally prevalent where expensive
and laborious efforts at sanitation
and prevention are employed, and
where management and employees
both operate In ignorance Of or fndif-
ference to the disease. 49, -
Nevertheless, eall of this death and
misery, caused by phosphorou poi
soning, like that caused by most Of
our occupational 4 diseases, is easily
The labor world., 1911-01-28

nails are up for the serious minded
for it Is a hilarious comedy that pre-
cludes the idea of serious things. Still
there Is much human interest in the
story-the parental love the father
bound up in his two sons, toiling for
years that his boys may reap the
benefit of his efforts, however the
man who gave the stage 'The COL
lege Widow" and "The County Chair
man. wrote this play, and wittier
lines never flowed from his facile
pen nor did he ever conceive a char
acter that fitted an actor to a nicely
better than the old wools merchant
does Mr.. Turner
1t is play of American people of
now. Each of It's several characters
is of distinctive type and each
scene and situation was conceived
for the fun of it and Mr.. Turner and
his company are said to be alive
to the idea that their mission is to
The labor world., 1911-01-28
W0MEN's VOTES MAY HELP
CHILD LABOR ENFORCEMENT

illinois has child labor law.
Twelve firms were arraigned in court
ir one day for violation. The lowest
fine five dollars, was laid against
each by the judge. Immediately fol-
lowing. in the same court, a man
was fined fifteen dollars, the limit,
for having ON sale a bottle Of ginger
ale with an illegal label. Is it three
times as great crime to trifle with
a bottle Of ginger ale as with the
health and development of children
Writes J. N. Hurry in the journal
of Education"
United States Commissioner of
Education E. E. Brown, backed by
Secretary Garfield, asked congress
for an appropriation of $4,000 with
which to study scientifically a GER
tain phase of child life, to the end
that child life might be better con-
served. The appropriation committee
laughed it down When, however,
the pearl button makers asked the
same committee for $4,000 to pay
the cost of a scientific study Of clans,
to the end that more clamshells for
more buttons might be obtained, the
committee passed ii unanimously. Are
clans worth more than children?
when the bee-keepers and fruit
growers asked the Indiana legisla-
ture for $4,000 annually for pro-
tecting bees and fruit trees. the
amount was voted by a big major
ity When the state board of health
asked for $4,000 with which to print
and circulate health circulars teach
ing the health of infants and school
children, not more than ten of the
one hundred members of the legisla-
ture voted aye; and two representa-
tives cried out loudly: Kill it!' 1t
was the bill, not the children, they
wanted killed. However, killing the
appropriation keeps the infant and
child death rate in Indiana at the
old figures
Is it likely that these things would
have happened if the mothers Of the
children had voted?
The labor world., 1911-01-28
In the case of phos-

preVentable. In the case of phos-
phorous poisoning the prevention con-
sists in stopping the use of poisonous
PHOSPHORUS in the making OF
matches in this country, as it. has
been stopped III Germany, France,
Luxembourg, Italy, Switzerland, Den
den and Great Britain.
Years ago the government of
France conceived the idea for reve-.
nue. purposes of making a govern
ment monopoly of the manufacture
of matches. At the time all known
processes of the manufacture of fric-
ton matches involved the use of poi
sonous phosphoreus. The French
government found it's revenue expec-
tations from it's match monopoly de-
feated because of the expense incident
to the care and compensation of en-
ployes in the government factories
who fell victims to the poison of
white phosphorous Whereupon the
government set about to find and did
find non-poisonous substitute for
this ingredient to be used in match
making. 49,
This substitute discovered by the
chemists of the French government
is known as sesuuisulphide. It is
said that the cost of match manu-
facture with this substitute is slight
ly increased over the cost with poi
sonous phosphorous Whether this
increase in cost is as great as the
expense of some Of the elaborate
efforts now being made by manufact~
tn h1 of
ployees while using the poisonous
PHOSPHORUS and which would be
necessary if sesquisulphide were sub
stituted, we doubt.
1t is true that the match trust
owns the American patent on sesqui-
sulphide. This patent the trust has
that if the government shall prohibit
the use of white PHOSPHORUS in the
manufacture of matches in this coup-
try. the trust will allow all manu-
facturers of matches upon paying in
proportion to it's output towards this
price of the sesquisulphide patent, to
use the sesquisulphide formula an
equal terms with itself. The price
thus placed by the trust on the ses-
quisulphide patent is less than two
per cent of the value of the annual
product of the match factories Of
this country. 1t is no consideration
which should stand in the way of
the demand for humane legislation
upon this subject.
If the Esch bill should require
amendment to perfect it in some de-
tails, it should SO amended. But
bill of this character should be
passed by the present congress, and
with the least possible delay. Write
your senator's and congressman in
Washington to see to it that this leg
islation is passed as matter of pub
.lic duty, in the name of humanity,
or better still, send them petition
to that effect signed by yourself and
your neighbors. +
The labor world., 1911-01-28
FIRE POLITICAL LOAFERS
FROM MILWAUKEE FAT JOBS

MILWAUKEE. Wis.,, Jan. a.
Fourteen city employees have been dis
missed from the city payroll for the
good of the service. Six of these
were discharged by the health COM
missioner, including in the number
Chief Sanitary inspector ]. NJ. Cal
ligan, three other sanitary inspectors,
a license clerk and a milk inspector.
The health commissioner charged
the men with excessive use of liquor,
inattention to duty and discourtesy
toward the public. He emphatically
alleged the existence of a ring which
gave it's allegiance to some one other
than the general public.
This is the second ring" the
Socialist health commissioner has
mashed. The first was a medical
ring, broken in it's domination of the
health department by the discharge
Of three deputy commissioners.
The labor world., 1911-01-28

Summons In Application for Reglstra-
tiou of Land.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
st. Loufs.-ss: District. Court. Ele-
venth Judicial District.
In. the, matter of the appiicat tions Of
John p. Geistman to register the title
to the following described real estate
situated I'm St. Louis County, Mime
sofa: namely Commencing at the
Gsffes1 sSsreer eNWM Fsee Of Section 10 TWo e.
Township Forty mine (4s) North.
South IS Forty (4o5 rods, and thence
West .cw) Forty (4o) rods to place
Leva Peterson, Lena Magnesson. St.
Louis County, Parlan Senple. Roscoe
w. -Gilkey. :, Frerker Brothers and
schleb. The Western Land Associa-
tion Of Minnesota, a corporation, Juho
Kivisaari, Harsham Shoe Manufactur-
ing Company. corporation, Sharood
other persons. or parties unknown.
- claiming any right title. estate, lien
or interest in the real estate de-
scribed in the application At q herein,
The State: OF Minnesota to the above
named Defendants: r. ,j:s-.- :
You, are hereby summoned and re.
quired to answer the application Of
the applicant in, the above entitled
proceedings and to file your answer to
the said application in the office. Of
the Clerk Of said Court, in said County,
< within, twenty l2o) days after the serv-
ice Of this summons upon you. exclu-
sive aof. the day OF such service. and,
IL you fail to answer the said appltca-
tion within the time aforesaid. the APP
plicant in this proceeding will apply
to the Court for the relief demanded
therein. 81 S,S .@, n
Witness, ~ p. johnson, Clerk Of said
Court and the seal thereof, ut Duluth,
The labor world., 1911-01-28

a beautiful girl. which. has been lost
by lieutenant at the army post,
who is much in love with the original.
Ermine subsequently meets the
woman, shows her the picture, de-
clares his love and pleads that she
accompany him to his home in the
mountains as his wife. Believing him
to be an Indian, she refuses, and,
in despair, he returns to his old
home, but not until he has murdered
the lieutenant in self-defense, who
has demanded the return of the pic
ture. He is hunted by the entire post
with a reward hanging over him. He
tells his experiences to his foster
father, who understands better than
he. His faithful guide. arrives from
the post with a letter from the young
woman, in which she begs him to re-
turn. He decides to do her bidding,
and is about to start when a captain
from the post reaches camp, bringing
the girl to remain forever.
VIM. H. Turner in George AIDES S
best comedy "Father and the Boys
is the announced attraction for the
Lyceum Feb. .10-11, and warning sig