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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-03-05

AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE THE
VARIOUS SCHOOL FUNDS AND
APPROPRIATIONS AND TO PRO
VIDE A MORE EQUITABLE DIS.
TRIBUTION or THE SAME.
1t is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Vermont:
Section /. The term legal school"
shall apply to any public school main
tanned at least one hundred fifty days,
including holidays and others allow
ed by law. during any school year.
unless It has been impracticable TO
maintain the same such number Of
days on account of the closing of
said school by the local health officer
because of an epidemic, and in which
the average attendance during ses-
sions thereof was not less than six,
and which was taught by a duly quail
flied and legally certifcated teacher,
and the register of which was kept
and returned according to law.
The term rural school" shall ap-
ply. in the distribution of school
funds, to any school in a separate
building and which furnishes instruc-
ton in no less than six of the nine
years of the course prescribed for
elementary schools, or to any school
of a system of not more than three
schools which together provide in
struction covering the nine years Of
such prescribed course.
The per cent of grand list eXpend-
ed by a town for the maintenance of
schools during any school year shall
be determined by subtracting from
the current expenses OF that year all
school moneys received, except such
as were received from taxes on the
grand list OF the town for that year
and from the surplus from a previous
year. and by dividing the difference so
obtained by the grand list of the town
for the year in which the tax Is raised.
The words current expenses" as used
in this act shall include all moneys
expended for school purposes. except
for the construction of new buildings:
and the words per cent" as used in
this act shall mean the per cent as de-
termined by this section.
Sec. .. A consolidation OF the re-
ceipts from the eight per cent state
tax. OF the revenue from the interest
on the permanent school fund. and Of
fifty thousand dollars hereby apprO-
priated annually. is. formed for ap-
portlonment and distribution among
the various towns, unorganized towns
and cores. for the encouragement Of
public education.
Sec 3. The consolidation formed
under the preceding section shall be
aDportioned as follows.
a. A town eXpending fifty per cent
and more Of its grand list for cur
rent expenses in the maintenance OF
public schools shall receive. from the
foregoing consolidation OF school
| funds. forty per cent Of its excess
above fifty per cent Of its grand list
50 expended: a town expanding sixty
per cent and more Of its grand list
for current expenses in the mainten-
ance Of public schools shall receive.
] from the foregoing consolidation.
| twenty per cent Of its excess above
sixty per cent Of its grand list 80 ex-
pended and IN addition 10 the forty
per cent Of excess herein provided.
and a town exDending seventy per
cent OF more Of its grand Est for cur
/ rent expenses IN the maintenance az
schools shall receive. from the fore
| going consolidation. ten per cent -
its excess above seventy PCT cent q
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-03-05
NO. 70.
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 1889
OF THE PUBLIC STATUTES. RE-
LATING TO INCORPORATED
SCHOOL DISTRICTS.

SChOOL DISTRICTS.
IL is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Vermont:
Section l. Section 1889 of the Pub
lie Statutes is hereby amended so as to
read as follows
Sec. 1888. The provisions OF law re-
lating TO the administration and main
tenance of public schools. school meet
ings and voting therein. to raising
and expanding school moneys. to shar-
ing In state aid for public schools. to
the election and appointment of school
officers, TO elementary and higher in
struction. to transportation. board and
attendance of pupils. to truancy. to the
furnishing of textbooks and appliances
and to other matters pertaining to
schools in town. shall, unless other
wise provided, pertain to schools main
tanned. and all matters pertaining
thereto, in Incorporated school dis
tricts; and the provisions OF law relat-
ing to the calling of school meetings,
and to the powers. duties and liabil-
ities Of school officers in unorganized
towns and cores shall apply to such
officers in incorporated districts. ex-
cept that the clerk of such district
shall not be considered a town clerk
for school purposes.
Approved December 4, 1912.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-03-05
NO. IA.

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE
TEACHING OF AGRICULTURE.
THE MANUAL ARTS AND DO
MESTIC ECONOMY IN THE PUB
Lie SCHOOLS.
1t is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly Of the State of Vermont:
Section !. Section l of No. 40 of
the acts of 1908 is hereby amended
SO as to read as follows:
Section /. A town maintaining
high school OF the first class may pro-
vide for and maintain courses or de-
partments in manual training domes-
Tic economy or agriculture. with
special instructors therefor, and IL
such courses or departments have
been submitted TO and approved by
the state board OF education. and if
for instruction In any of these courses
or departments in a school year. not
less than six hundred dollars has
been paid in salaries, the chairman of
the school board of such town shall
make statement, under oath. OF the
amount paid In salaries In such town,
and the auditor Of accounts, on GER
tificate Of the state board OF educa-
tion, shall draw an order for two hun
dred dollars for each course or de-
partment so maintained. The ap-
proval by the state board OF educa-
tion OF such course or department
shall stand until withdrawn by notice
in writing to the chairman Of such
town school board.
Sec. ?. Section ? of No. 40 OF the
acts Of 1908 is hereby amended so as
to read as follows:
Sec. .. The school boards in the
various towns in a supervision union
may unite and employ special instruct
ors in manual training. domestic
science, agriculture, singing or draw
ing, and, IN salary Of not less than
elk hundred dollars is paid an in
struetor in any Of these subjects dur
Ing a school year. the chairman of
the joint committee Of such union
shall make a statement under oath.
81 the amount OF salary paid for SUCH
instruction. and the auditor Of ac-
counts, on certificate Of the state
boari Of education. shall draw an
order for two hundred dollars in favor
OF such chairman. 10 be apportioned
among the towns comprising such
union. according TO the amounts Of
heir respective grand lists.
sec. 8. All acts OF parts % acts in
consistent With this act are hereby re-
psalsd
SEE. 4 This act shall take effect
July l. 1873.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-03-05
NO. 70.

AN ACT TO REPEAL SECTION 6
OF NO. 6S OF THE ACTS OF
1910, RELATING TO EXAMINA-
TON OF PUPILS FOR AID
VANCED INSTRUCTION.
1t is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Vermont:
Section l. Section of No. 6S Of
the acts of 1910 is hereby amended by
adding thereto;
But any such applicant who is dis
satisfied with the kind of instruction
provided in such academy, or who
cannot obtain the kind or course of
instruction he desires, may appeal to
the board of education, whose deci-
sion shall be final in regard to the in
stitution he may attend.
Approved February 10, 1913.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-03-05
NO. n.
AN ACT TO PROVIDE APPARATUS
FOR INSTRUCTION CONCERN
ING THE RESOURCES OF YER
MONT.

1 I
FOR INSTRUCTION CONCERN
ING THE RESOURCES OF YER
MONT.
II is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Vermont:
Section J. The sum of fifteen hun
dred dollars is hereby appropriated
for the purchase of lanterns and
slides to be used by union superin-
tendents for the purpose Of giving
instruction concerning the various re-
sources, manufactures, industries,
physical features, agriculture and
home life of Vermont and the world.
such lanterns and slides TO be selected
and purchased by a committee of
three elected at the annual confer
ence of union superintendent, and
the auditor of accounts shall draw an
order in payment for such lanterns
and slides upon the presentation of
an account thereof approved by the
superintendent of education.
Sec ,. Such lanterns and slides
shall be kept in the state house when
not in use. shall be in charge of the
superintendent of education. and
may be loaned by said superintend-
ent TO union superintendent who
shall receipt therefor. Expenses in
CURED in obtaining and operating a
lantern and slides shall be paid by
the town in which such lantern and
slides are used, and such expense
shall be charged 20 the school account.
Damage or loss incurred during the
time such lantern and slides are in
a town shall be paid by the town on
presentation by the superintendent
of education of a statement of such
loss or damage. Moneys received
from loss or damage shall be expended
by the superintendent of education in
repairing the apparatus and in pur-
chasing new equipment
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect
from its passage.
Approved February %, 1913.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-03-05
NO. rs.

AN ACT TO LEGALIZE SCHOOL
MEETINGS OF AN INCORPORAT-
ED SCHOOL DISTRICT, CALLED
AS PROVIDED IN SECTION 1874
OF THE PUBLIC STATUTES.
II is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Vermont:
Section /. All school meetings of
an incorporated school district here
tofore called by its clerk as provided
by section 1884 of the Public Statutes.
are hereby declared to have been legal
ly called.
Approved December 4, 1912.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-03-05

such sums being due the respective
towns or districts for advanced in
struction for the school years ending
June 30, 1911 and June 80, 1912, ac-
cording to the provisions of chapter
AZ Of the Public Statutes.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect
from its passage
Approved February q, 1918.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-03-05
NO. 76.

AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE THE
VARIOUS SCHOOL FUNDS AND
APPROPRIATIONS AND TO PRO
VIDE A MORE EQUITABLE DIS
TRIBUTION or THE SAME.
The Washington times., 1913-06-28

back of the regulations, and with or without State
cooperation, that will mean their enforcement.
Of course, where fory-eight States have had
fory-eght sets of game laws, the sweeping aside OF
all State lines in favor of two zones with a common
set of laws within each involves making startling
local changes. But the Biological Survey, which is
the bureau charged with the administration OF the
law, is not we understand, unamenable to argument
and will make exceptions where exceptions are clear
ly justified The main point however, is that un-
warranted exceptions will not be made, local favors
not be granted.
Protests are to be expected and will be forth
coming. But surely this is an occasion on which
we look squarely for the common good, and
forego seeking petty local advantages. A revolu-
ton-a revolution that will benefit the entire coun-
try-has been worked. 1t can be utterly undone
more if we look only at the restrictions it i'm
poses and insist upon their REMOVAL and to undo it,
after long period of mismanagement and failure
under the old system, and without even waiting to
ascertain its benefits, would be deplorable act of
unwisdom and shortsightedness.
The Washington times., 1913-06-28
ALOsT OPPORTUNITY FOR FAME.

What great chance was missed on Tuesday by
the weather prognosticator whose zone includes
Waltham, Mass! Had he predicted the snow which
fell there that day he would have rvaled the feat
of the almanac makers wife who forecast snow in
May to punish her spouse for contumacy and actually
hit the mark.
Until the science of meteorology becomes exact
we shall 60 on berating the weather man when he
gets things wrong and never realizing that as a
general rule he gets them right. When we think of
his own limitations we should not forget the limita-
tions of the field in which he works.
He can predict with considerable certainty heavy
storms, cold waves, injurious frosts and excessively
hot weather, for these things herald themselves
through the barometric reports in way that is not
easily mistaken His forecasts of rain or fair weather
based isobars and isotherms running over the
whole country. Experience has shown the difficulty
of anticipating local interference with their move
1ent with certainty.
The Washington times., 1913-06-28
SAN FRANclsco's PREDlcAMEkr.

San Francisco has inadequate water supply
purveyed by private corporation 1t wants to build
a great municipaly-owned water system, for which
it asks the privilege of daming fie Hetch Hetchy
valley, natural reservoir, and turningt into source
of supply Against this plan is advanced the argu-
nent that il would ruin the natural beauties of that
valley Further, the situation is complicated with
some water power aspects, and between the two ee-
ments the city has been unable to get what it most
seriously needs and by the best testimony, ought to
have.
fhe Hetch Hetchy case affords opportunity to
give demonstration of sensible conservation. Con-
servation that keeps natural resources from being
utilized where they needed is not conservation,
il is the worst sort of waste. The Hetch Hetchy
valley ought to be utilized for the needs of San
Francisco no sufficient argument has been presented
for refusing it. 1t is understood that the present
administration at the Interior Department is taking
a practical view and that after long delays which
have precipitated really grave situation in San
Francisco, the matter is likely soon to be settled in
favor of the real dominating interests that should
have consideration.
The Washington times., 1913-06-28
Learn One Thing
Every D ay
6.-WATER.

6.-WATER.
- OR . long time men thought
II water was an element. Ar
element is something composed
Of atoms Of one thing only. Gold
IL an element. Men thought water was
an element because they couldn't sepa-
rate 1t into two or more things.
But after q while 1t was discovered
that water was composed Of more than
one thing. Experiments were made and
at last 1t was announced that every
molecule ("molecule," from the Latin
meaning little mass) had three parts.
two Of them alike. The two parts that
were alike were hydrogen, the third part
was oxygen.
Both hydrogen and oxygen are bases.
They can be put together In many pro-
portions, four parts to one, or three to
six. But never under any condition will
they produce water or anything resem-
bling water unless there are Just two
parts Of hydrogen to one Of oxygen. The
chemical symbol! H2O means hydro
gen two parts to oxygen one"
II you take enough hydrogen gas and
oxygen gas SO that there'll be two atoms
Of the former to one of the later mix
them In q glass and allow an electric
spark to pass through them, the gases
will entirely disappear and in their
place will be a drop of water. So the
Idea Of water being an element was all
wrong. It is composition.
The Washington times., 1913-06-28
SHIPPING ARMS TO MEXICO,

: No purpose of bettering relations with Mexico
has been served iby empowering the President te
prohibit shipment of arms TO Mexico. 1t disadvan
tages the revoutonists who in the present case ha
pen to be the coHstitutonalists and who have the
sympathy of the vast majority of Americans. Thus
is sproduced Senator Fallsypoints out, situation
in which the masses of people in northern Mexico
are dsaffected with the United States, despite that
they know they have the general sympathy of the
American people.
The sooner the crisis is reached in Mexico, the
better for both countries That crisis impends is
very plain. The Huerta' government shows its i'm.
potence more and more plainly The United States
will not recognize it, and should not. The recent
widely-heralded loan negotiated by the government
proves to have been of for strengthening the
hand of Huerta. The longer the present deranged
conditions exist the more danger of complications
that might compel our iserfereece in force;-e con
summation altogether undesirable- AsnggesfisA
Of moving in and takiHg Slice Of
as security for Indemnity made from places,
and ought to be discouraged in the sharpest manner.
The Washington times., 1913-06-28
THE UNION PACIFIC SETTLEMENT.

:, No matter how fully it might be understood as q
merely formal proceeding with no implication agains
the financial condition of the great property, re,
Ownership for the Union Pacific road is the last thing
to be permitted Delays and differences in working
out dissolution plan have brought the matter to the
verge of such event.
1t is hard to conceive more bungling legal situ-
alton than this which permits such a menace to
business confidence by reason of proceeding under
the antitrust act European investors are in no
frame of mind to understand and excuse such gov
ernmental intrusion into already difficult business
situation.
There ought to be full provision of law for
handling such conditions have arisen in this Union
Pacific affair, and handling them with view to the
public concern about them. 1t is not at all certain
that a receivership would make the problem any
simpler; yet it might be forced simply for want of
any other course under the law. 1t is one Of the
finest demonstrations yet provided, of the necessity
for reorganization of the statutes under which the
great aggregations of capital are controlled.
The Washington times., 1913-06-28
The Bird Mans Triumph
BY Eugene Geary.

IT was q lovely motorist
Who turned on all the power
And scorched the winding country
lanes
At sixty miles an hour.
The whiskered rural constables
Tried hard with threat'ning shout.
To stop her course, until at last
The gasolene gave out.
"Ah. woe is me'' the maiden cried,
"Alas, why did / roam?
II seems to me that I'm, at least,
A thousand miles from home"
A bird man floating In the blue,
Observed the maiden's plight.
And right beside the stranded car
He calmly did alight.
whats wrong" he asked her tenderly,
"With this absurd machine1'
She nut her kerchief TO ner face
And sobbed out. "Gasolenew
"Nay, nay. don't weep" the bird man
said.
Tn tones OF mild reproor,
..Sten on my plane and soon you'll land
ITpon your fathers roof"
And when they wed. the blushing bride
meclared with eyes agleam:
..Tbere's nothing half SO sweet In life
As loves aerial dream"
The Washington times., 1913-06-28
Here's a Book

1T II Enoughf" by Harriet Russell
Campbell. published BY Hnrpsr and
Brothers Of New York.
A story Of music and love in New
FORKS Bohemia Married to q gsnius
when q mere girl. the heroine ID forced
to endure poverty. sorrow. dissllusion-
ment. and even neglect from the man
with whom she had elected to share
her life. or rather with whom she WAS
forced to become married
Success comes to him af last, after
all Of her best had been given him.
Long hours Of tediously playing
accompaniment to his violin muac.
years Of no love and less food. COM
plete subjugation Of her own person
ality and Accomplishments for the
furtkerance of his own. Jet when he
came to fame. he said, AT last have
come into mine own" Later-.Some-
times I shall hate you. sometimes I
shall make you very sorry. That is
not my business; my business n to live
yours Ia to love Il Il not
enoughr"
And her answer 10 yes!
And q woman wrote this book, VINO
perhaps doesn't believe In negro slavery
or white slave TRAFFIC yet-her book.
yes. It II enough.
The Washington times., 1913-06-28
GOOD STORIES
Circumstances.

HE was only a small girl. but even
little people can be naughty
sometimes. and this was one Of
the occasions when Mabel had
kicked over the traces.
Naturally. mamma was terribly angry.
and Mabel was dispatched to the region
aloft where. in her mothers bedroom.
she was bidden sit upon a certain chair,
pending further instructions from head
quarters.
The particular instructions were long
delayed, from Mabel's point Of view. and
after half an hour she ventured to query
in childish treble:
Mamma, may I come down now? I
promise I'll me good"
Headquarters was still huffy and
waited up the stairs this reply:
mo. you sit just where you are till
/ call you"
IAN right" came In sing-song tone
from the bedroom. "all right, mamma,
only I'm sitting on your best hat !'-
Gulf States Prssbytestan.
The Washington times., 1913-06-28
Why He Wasn't Playing.

"HAT when a small boy isn't play
ing there Is always a reason for
i 1t, was demonstrated by a story
told by Grand Exalted Ruler
Thomas B. Mills. Of the Benevolent and
Protective Order OF Elks, at Atlantic
City.
Rambling through the park one after
noon a gentleman took a seat on one
of the numerous benches. and while in
this restful position he noticed a small
boy lying In the grass close by.
What's the matter. young man?' he
kindly asked. addressing the youngster.
Why don't you play with the other
children?''
Il don't want to play" answered the
boy.
But why don't You want to playT'
insisted the gentleman.
I'm just waitin',' was the startling
response Of the boy. "A Teller painted
that bench about fifteen minutes ago.
an ! want to see you get up."-Phila-
uslphia Telegraph.
The Washington times., 1913-06-28

THE mans notion of ideal wre" a sleigto
/ hand artist who can furnish Rhz-CarHon
quick lunch pocketbook
all right for modern be in lone NTH his wfe
ne can't help but he values his reputation for hs
mont make the scandal public.
man seldom cares to nowadays unless he find
girl whose father afford to keep him the style which
unaccustomed.
Most husbands have charge account with their
they are credited With lot bad things than they did
lot more good ones than they dreamed of doieg.
Beginning of modern fairy tae AS the beautiful maiden
tered the street half dozen sprang forward offer
a seat" O..
husbands excuses like Wagnerian Whmans
poetry often be really much better they sound
From the double marriages that foow many divorces no
adays looks though the "eterna Triangle becoming
equlatera quadrangle
As long noman keep guessing, she
of riddle he will give up :.
fool and her money courted
The Washington times., 1913-06-28
THE FEDERAL GAME LAWS.

In game protection this country and Europe be-
gan at opposite extremes. In Europe the right to kill
was practically royal prerogative Every departure
from that restriction has been by way of granting a
little more liberty to the people. In this country
bird and animal life free for all to take Every
effort made since then to protect game has been by
way of curtailment of what was once an open priv
ilege, Today practically anyone in Germany or
France who likes to shoot can find opportunity to do
so. Starting from the other end, we have nearly
exterminated our game.
There is in this moral for those who see in the
promulgation of the Federal game laws denial of
their rights. Under diverse State laws, our migra-
tory birds have been slaughtered and the time had to
come when the United States would intervene
only to protect one careful State against its careless
neighbor.
The Weeks-McLean law does this in sensible
way. The game laws are not to be laws but regula-
TONS Their formulation is intrusted to the Depart
ment Of Agriculture, with all the necessary machinery
Of hearings, etc., at hand to guarantee quick and
equable adjustment of unfair unwse restrictions.
No more log-rolling, no more petty exemptions
of this county and that from general provision of
the law no more turning of the migratory birds in
this or any other State into victims of politics
and still more important, no more politics in the
administration Of the law! The Federal power is
The Washington times., 1913-06-28
Concert Today
By the q. S. Marine Band, White
House, at 500 p. m.
WILLIAM H. SANTELMANN.
Leader.

March, THE Grand Duke Of Ba-
den'' ..................-..... .Teike
Overture, "Di Ballo". "....... Sullivan
Inte-mezzo Characteristic. We'd
ding Of the Rose" ............. .Jessel
Two movements from Symphony
"Pathetique" ..Tschaikowsky
(a) ALLEGRO con Grazia."
(b) ''Lamentos."
Flute solo. Fantasia on theme from
"Oberon' .Demerssement
musician. Robert Seel.)
First Valse. (Op. .Durand
Hungarian Rhapsody "No. o.. .Lisxt
The Star-Spangled Banner"