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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-04-28
A Mans destiny

Destiny is either the excuse men
give for their errors or the reason
they give for their successes. The
man who buys life insurance wisely
looks after the destinies of those he
loves. National Life ms. Co, of VI.
Mutual) Earle s. Kinsley. General
Agent, Mead Building, Rutland, VI.
ADV
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-04-28

Now is the time for all good men
to come forth and demand. Rhubarb
pie: one end of the porch hammock.
the privilege of using the veranda
railing for foot rest; a selected
corner in the ice box that can easily
be reached in the dark; berries
enough in the shortcake.-Rutland
News.
Add TO these demands. two hooks
in the family closet; no sarcastic re-
marks when fishing trip is under
consideration: arbitration before his
last years suit is sent to the rum
mage sale; no soap left on the stairs
during housekeeping. Votes for
men.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-04-28
F. Wednesday, April %, 1915.

After all the English talk about
going on the water wagon the sum
total of the reform seems to be to adj
wise the public to drink less. This
can hardly be considered radical
step and will hardly wrest any
honors from Kansas.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-04-28

day school services in draughty un'
heated meeting houses; they might
consider Themselves i'll used if they
we're called upon TO travel to school
in winter in oxsleds. Despite many
haldships. early life in Vermont held
many compensations,- the least
of which was the absence of Sunday
dailies and comic supplements.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-04-28

Every kid and most grown persons
will mourn the passing OF John
Bunny the moving picture actor
whose jolly face and fat form have
become familiar in every theatre in
the United States Although Mr.
Bunny is no more his infectious
smile will be feature OF comedy
films for many years to come.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-10
Pointed Paragraphs

But q girl doesn't necessarily love
the man she admires.
Failure to start may save Q poor
finish once In . while.
Poker Is not Q game OF chance
or al least the amateur has no
chance.
II the wolf had any sense he
would move around to the door of q
rich man.
Experience often provides q lot OF
raw material for unnecessary con
versation.
A woman with a shapely figure Is
as proud OF II as q man Is OF a mil
lion dollars.
No matter how homely a man Is
he always imagines he has a pleas
ing personality.
The young girl who paints her
face and bleaches her hair will be
old long before her time.
And Il Is sometimes said of a man
that he drinks like nsh--but he
imbibes a different fluid.
II Is said that familiarity breeds
contempt, yet q lot OF people seen
TO be on good terms with them
selves.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-10
How the European Piper Should Be Paid
BY HERBERT QUICK.

ment for which these men are fight
ing? Who IL benefited financially
by the German institutions for
which the war is waged? Who. in
short. would lose II any of the coun.
tries engaged IN the war should be
peacefully occupied and the calami-
ties to be expected in case OF de-
feat predicted by the various states
men should come upon the land?
Financially. | say. mind, not In
pride or moral shock.
Would the laboring people lose ?
Not a penny. All they make now
Is q living. and they would make
that anyhow. The people OF Bel
GUM would have been peacefully
working at their jobs now, getting
good wages and making the same
old workingman's living II they had
not fired shot when Germany per.
fdiously invaded their little king.
dom. They fought for great prin.
ciple. and | admire them for It.; hut
1t is a principle which pays them
not pfennig in money.
The money returns OF good gov.
eminent go to the owners Of lands
in the main. Others are fighting
for things more precious than
money. TIE land-owning classes
are fighting for all these things. and
fighting bravely. too: but they are
fighting. and they alone. for things
that mean money to themselves
lend titles, control Of the face OF
the earth. the privileges Of the In.
heritors OF feudalistic tenures.
Those who get the money hence
forth should pay tho money cost
since those who gee benefits In life
are paying the cost in lives.
Out Of these unearned incomes
should be taken the moneys 20 pay
the piper. Henry George points out
the way: and II the peoples follow
that great philosopher in the read
justment Americans may have the
Joy of knowing that an American
philosophy will make easy the yoke
and light the burden Of the bondage
Of which Lord Lansdowne spoke.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-10

into the stream. Burn or dit pit
for H. Cover all the waste which
goes into II with q sprinkling OF
chlorinated limo and then with a
light covering OF earth. This will in
sure a freedom from fly breeding and
noisome odors In the hot weather.
II mosquitoes abound. for the sake
OF comfort and as protection
against the possibility OF malarial
infection. screens or netting should
be used II conditions. will permit.
and IL not some anti-mosquito wash
should be used, such as oil Of citro-
nella. n bitten. q mixture Of one
part OF aqua-ammonia and three
parts OF spirits of camphor will de-
stroy the poison.
After reaching the age OF one
month. children derive much benefit
from sleeping outdoors in the day.
time. This should be encouraged
when the weather will permit, -espe-
cially In the summer time.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-10
This Grand Work Should
Not Cease for Lack of Funds

II is saddening to note the decision OF
the American Red Cross to withdraw It's
doctors and nurses from the European
battlefelds on October l..
OF the sixteen units all will return to
the United States with the possible ex-
ceptoin of the two in Belgium. the point
at which there is the greatest need.
The action of the Red Cross is neces-
STATED by lack of funds, as by the date
mentioned the general fund, aggregating
81, $50, 900, will have been exhausted.
At the beginning of the war many
American philanthropists, men and
women of great wealth. came to the
front with prefers Of aid to the war
sufferers.
Money and personal services were
freely rendered.
A number of individual relief enter
prises were launched, while scores OF
well known men and women Of America
volunteered as nurses, etc.
Fer lack of organization and expert
ence little was accomplished in this way
and these volunteers, or most OF them,
were compelled to reluctantly abandon
the noble work.
Now they have real opportunity to
give vent to their charitable inclinations
in a thoroughly practical way, way
that will be understood and appreciated.
The sum of $1.5OO,OOO, equal to the
amount which has carried the Red
Cross through long year of war, might
be raised by these same people in twen-
ty-four hours and never missed by them.
The Rockefeller Foundation, if so dis
posed, could alone contribute that sum
and it would be but bagatelle to that
pretentious body.
The work of the American Red Cross
ia too well known to need recounting
1t would be a grievous thing If it
were indeed compelled to cease opera
lions because of lack of money.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-10

In the house OF lords the other
day, Lord Lansdowne urged the
British people to economic. Some
OF the nations engaged in this war"
he said, will emerge from 1t with
increased territories. but none of
them will come out Of IL with re-
sources unimpaired."
Il believe" he continued, that
the traces Of war will leave, will
be in the form of the arrestation OF
progress. and of an immense bur.
den OF financial embarrassment"
In other words, taxes.
Having danced this CHASTITY Dance
OF Death. the peoples will have to
pay the piper. or course, The Peo-
pie, What people!
II these unheard Of taxes are al.
lowed to rest on labor and the cap
ital engaged In production. they
will bring national arrestation OF
progress. II they force the nations
TO adopt a system OF taxation which
will rest on unearned values Great.
ed by common activities. they will
be carried with an ease which will
surprise the world.
These taxes have been rendered
inevitable by q war for a national
collective. a common purpose
In Russia, In Germany. In France,
in every one Of the nations.
They should be paid out OF the
common property-the rental values
Of the lands Of the nations.
They may be so paid without
making 10 necessary for any person
to economize save those who. like
Lord Lansdowne, have been living
on the produce Of the labor OF
others. They may have to econo-
mize. but no man engaged in pro-
ductive labor. whether as laborer,
as merchant, or as manufacturer
will feel the pinch until every penny
Of the rental value Of British Tor
Germany lands Is used up.
Would this be just! Well. who
Is benefited financially by the ex-
cellencies Of the British govern.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-10

woodsman does not neglect. but the
city-bred amNeur who Is used 10
daily garbage collection and open
plumbing seems apt to lack SUFFICIENT
ingenuity to properly improvise
means TO make up for the lack OF
these essentials.
Cooking and eating out OF doors
Is an attraction n the process Is not
accompanied by swarms OF flies. and
these are sure TO appear II tho
wastes are not properly disposed Of.
II your camp Is near a stream. go
far enough back to be sure that
heavy rains viii not wash refuse
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-10

To the Honorable Common Council
City OF Detroit
mon council of the city OF Detroit In
ignoring the ruling OF the supreme
court namely. that private instttu-
tons cannot be maintained by public
zen. herewith register my protest
against the action of this body. so
called voice of the people" In ap-
propriating three thousand dollars a
Museum. q private institution. and.
at the same time. would call the at
tention Of the common council. repre-
sentatives OF the people. singly and
city which. II corrected. would serve
a triple purpose. namely:
1.-Beautify the every day sur
roundinss OF the public
supply much needed work to
3.-Save them from a last resort Of
with legaiized business Of murder
namely-"the army and navy"
We have within our gates. proper
ty owned by the city, which Is at
present in a shameful state OF
, neglect. and will name one instance
with which I am familiar--the prop
-rty bounded by Beaubien. Clinton.
Antoine and Macomb- which has
been covered for one year with the
fnal debris of buildings raised TO
make room Tor the municipal courts.
Hundreds Of people pass here daily,
and are treated to the "eye-feast" OF
destruction--yet we have no protest
from our city fathers: hundreds OF
people daily beg" for the privilege
OF making an honest living which IL
denied them. and we have the spec
tacle of recruiting officers soliciting
among the army OF the unemployed
according 70 press notice. for food
for cannon"
Can 4, he that our rhossn rspre
sentstives are so blind" to what
legally. three thousand dollars a
month to maintain a temple of ex-
pression,' while they permit the
temple OF the soul''--man. himself
TO feast the eye on debris and
Destruction In their every day sur
roundings7
As an individual citizen, I now re-
quest that this appropriation be TAX
en- under reconsideration. and that II
he utilized to clean up the city, which
will employ many and keep them
from becoming criminals under the
Iaw"--for which you have so boun-
teousiy prepared with a new penal
institute.
7 would recommend that you pu,
into expression the greatest Art OF
all--Good Government" whichever
must he Justice to all. not favorins
the few"
Respectfully yours,
AUGUSTA PETERS.
SO Maoomb-st
Aug. 8. 1915.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-10
re Are Startling Figures
From Russia to Reckon With

HAT curious old argument of the
|1re msA "A regard to depriving the
x - much money IN the matter Of
y 49, II the saloon were abolished,
- - (uashsd H-Quashing were
|1zy) ~ recent reports from the
tw q finance IN Russia.
selling Of vodka, the national
x ~ prohibited nearly year ago
~ TIE Russian soldier from him
lnd thereby make for the efficiency
! ~ Rn1Gian army.
" npsuia could do this was owing
xhct thAt the government con-
- ~ nQuor business.
= 1osult 81 suppression, the gov
NJ NJ IN revenue $500, 900, 900
49, whsn money is most badly
uinistsr and the government
~ 4hsy had made a gross
|, ~ ,alds from the improved
ngs IL savings banks
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-10
KDIroRIAL PAGE

of Russia showed, in the same length
of time an increase in deposits of APP
proximately $500, 100000.
The theory of some stand-patters that
if money is not wasted one way it will
be another and that you'll never know
the difference" has some startling tig-
ures TO reckon with.
Few ever believed them, but it is a
glib phrase that slips easily off the
tongue and finds comfortable place to
incubate in the minds of the young OF
foolish.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-10
Using Up a Yard
OF Ticket
COUPON u.


to San Barnadino. Riverside and
Redlands. II has long tale Of
luxuriance and fruitfulness.
Riverside has many delights. II
you can bring yourself to forego
for q few moments tie tranquil
charms Of her famous Mission Inn.
The spirit OF this restful retreat
Is written in the motto over the
desk of the Master OF the Inn. Mr..
Frank A. Mlller-"Next to love
Quietness."
II thS outspoken Irish girl who
served MS on the roof garden al
Long Beach MOULD go on duty In
the candle-lishted patio OF the inn
at tea time. everybody would rush
to consult the seismograph.
Mt Roubideau. which you ascend
by gentle windings, has a cross and
tablet dedicated TO the leading char.
acter in the Mission Play at San
Gabriel
II has also a view OF the resplen.
dent Valley OF Santa Ana which Is
worth motoring q considerable alti-
tude 10 see.
Redlands has mountain park
and an uncovered auditorium, show.
ing that they believe their charms
will stand comparison with heaven
any day.
Having the celestial concave for
canopy gives the Redlands Fourth
OF July orator some soaring room.
We gave a Redlands newsboy a
IS goIdpiece by mistake, and he re.
turned 1t as naturally as II II were
a Canadian quarter.
Proving how the true blue OF the
California sky and the gold OF her
succulent fruit get into the heart
and soul OF her boys.
You can get variety in the climate
OF Southern California. A Michigan
girl who got 1899 boxes OF oranges
last year, got 500 this year.
The progressiveness OF the Golden
States Is explained. Michigan col.
leges sends more diplomas out here,
accompanied by teachers. than any
other eastern state.
But II didn't get those magnificent
country roads either from Michigan
precept or example.
California considers II a good in
vestment TO pay from $4,000 TO &10,.
900 a mile for all the year round
good going.
II you stay long enough you'll
catch them having a day OF Michi.
gan humidity.
Ezra Kendall reported the sleep,
ing car problem 10 be: Shall pull
down the covers and get pneumonia
or pull them up and freeze my feet?
In journeying over the desert it's a
choice OF shutting the window and
/ suffocating or opening II and being
Generated.
You can't leave II TO the insin.
cere porter TO decide because he
makes up everything.
A young lady from stranded
transcontlnental automobile trip
joins us in the hot sands. and IL
grieved TO find all the lowers gone.
Again on my uppers." she mourns.
Between meals at Mr.. Harvey's
taverns, we ride In the Santa Fe
train.
The manager OF the Mission Play
nj San Gabriel. invited the gentle
men 10 remove their coats before
the curtain went up. The manager
OF the Harvey dining hall at Bar
stow commanded the gentlemen to
20 back and put their coats on be-
fore the dinner went down.
What Ia needed out here. next TO
rain. II uniform rule OF etiquette
until the sands Of the desert grow
cold.
The shirt-waisted suffragists ought
TO rejoice and be exceedingly glad
over the discrimination in their
favor at the dinner hour In Bar
stow.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-10
From Another Point of VielU
BY c. T. s.

Phyllis says those Charlie Chaplin
statuettes that are done in plaster of
paris ought to be made OF whacks.
The third consecutive day of sunshine
prompts CAD to observe: Isn't 1t just
possible our weather hoo-doo has gone to
Europe, land can't get back?"
The international Typographical union
has declared for peace. We expected this
when Przemysl first got into the dis
patches.
An actor once in theater
Told a Joke on bold aviator;
He wrote il himself, so he said.
A kid in the gallery shouted
The actor and joke were both routed
"Say, mister, that's over our head"
Correspondent wants to know If Will
liam Alden Smith, as president, would be
found responsive to the voice Of the
people. In reply would state that Will
liam Alden has in the past been respon-
sive to but one voice, and that one Will
liam Alden's.
A Pennsylvania minister has been fired
for dancing. He may not exactly have
gone over to the devil, but seems not
more than one-step removed.
We note in patent medicine ad. tes-
timonial from woman who says 1t cured
her three times. Well, well, well
No rain for two days.
Some drouth. ~,
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-10
A Poem a Day

A PATE.
some human hearts misfortune parts
That nature tuned together.
That they should cheer each other
here
In calm or stormy weather:
From breezes bright. rise storms OF
night.
Such trusting hearts to sever:
And torn apart. each loving heart
Seems doomed to bleed forever,
~, HowarU Vert
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-10
Trial By Battle, BY
Repetition of Formula
and BY Endurance
~ Or. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1915. by Frank Crane)

The mind Of English-speaking peoples
is vitiated by sport.
They conceive of everything in terms
Of conquest.
The whole world shares this bias.
War is settling international questions,
not by ascertaining what Is just, and
what Is the peoples welfare, but by see
ing which nation can whip.
Law is similarly corrupted, partic-
ularly in America.
The common people here have no faith
in law nor lawyers, and little in courts.
The reason is that lawsuit is game;
each side is to try to outpoint the other;
the judge is the referee.
Hence, American law is cluttered with
rules of procedure, loaded down with
old presidents, vitiated by possibility
of endless technicalities
We come by it honestly. The virus is
inherited.
In times past contentious were settled
in three ways; by battle, by repetition Of
formula, and by endurance.
BY Battle Two men, for instance,
having a difference over the boundaries
of forty-acre lot, would be given battle
axes, and the one who hewed the other
down would be awarded the verdict. OF
course, battle-axe efficiency had no con-
nection with surveying, but it was .
good sporting proposition.
Repetition Of Formula: The litigant
who could repeat certain formula with
the least mistakes was declared winner.
This again had nothing to do with JUS
tice, but 1t was fun.
Endurance: The man who could en-
dure the most torture, or eat the most
beef, or drink the most beer, won his
case.
European courts have pretty generally
swept aside the rubbish that encumbers
American procedure.
Twenty-one days after Crippen killed
his wife, in England, he was hanged and
under the ground in quicklime, and he
had appealed in the meap time.
Thaw killed his man in public place
in the presence Of scores Of witnesses.
His trial lasted nine years and now he
is free.
1t is impossible to convict wealthy
malefactors in the courts. Nobody was
jailed for looting the Rock Island nor
for wrecking the New Haven. 1t can't
be done.
All the most skilful attorneys are
grabbed up by the huge wealth units.
When a case comes up these are the
best experts in battle, in repetition OF
formula, and in endurance.
If courts were constituted with no end
in view but to get at the truth every
quasi-criminal wealth combination would
hunt cover before night. and every yegg-
man would seek an honest living.
But so long as a lawsuit is a game,
like baseball or chess, and is won by the
side that can juggle precedent and
shuttle technicalities the most skilfuJfy,
why should the sharpers fear?
The law in the United States is a
dirty Augean stable, and the Hercules
who will clean it out has not yet APP
peared.
We have too many liable lawyers" and
Learned judges" and too few men OF
plain honesty and sound sense.
American law is inefficient, and the
sooner we see why, and remedy the evil,
the better
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-10

should constitute
himself q health
omcer for his owr
protection a n 4
comfort.
There are &C.
tain niceties OF
camp life which
A n experienced
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-10
Let the People
Rule-and Write

A Voice For . Clean City.
10 the Editor Of TIE TiMss:
VIII you kindly print the en-
closed open letter 10 our common
council, and oblige.
Yours truly.
AUGUSTA PETERS.
&c Macomb-st.. Aug. 7. 1915.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-10

I{|I = = Senss the legal" hanging, with
Gp1ay u british instincts, seems as
% - lynching By . mob.
n naturally expect the conservers Of
- ordnr 10 do things decently when
hays tie power IN their own hands.
k y : significant fact that this crowd
spectators was not composed Of
koes but was rather equally divided
Cen whites and blacks.
q 1sdssippL the state where Booker
lnGton has toiled 20 loyalty for his
( md whsrs the Tuskegee institute
M 6pne such remarkable work. has i'll
~ this pubic bsnsfactor by the ex-
1ticn II permitted to take place at
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-10
0r Shame, This Gala Day
Hanging Down in Mississippi

AZ the reports of the double hanging
Nississippi are true, it is high time
lat the higher authorities of that state
u1e hand in suppressing such bar
B1kuus exhibitions of sensationalism as
&Gne allowed to occur at Fresco.
~ me hanging, we are told, was planned
ly1tk ! View to spectacular effects, a
|pta1hl amphitheater being chosen with
s1h1 1lllows In the middle.
The thing was well advertised and
rrASts and their families began ia
arrive the day before and bargained for
~ beSt places.
aoft Of continuous picnic took place
III a hours and wide-awake vendors
|t - shop ct the foot Of the gallows,
1Sonsinr the drinks and eatables which
nally accompany circus.
Political aspirants took advantage of
Z & occasion to make free speeches from
/ " platform Of the gallows, the con-
nd men sitting there for the greater
et3on Of the spectators, and were
INV eheersd: while religious emotion
runctuated the other proceedings
cnIy. with various hymns sung
cteet susto BY the assembled
NJ NJ tie frst legal public hang
llIieh had taken place in Mississippi
-. ~ 4 a =
os q the authorities Of Fresno, to
on away and treated with the re-
% With which the taking Of the lives
- human beings is regarded by the
lk this country.
y ~ the natural moral law Of man,
IN ~ nothing.
eeems 70 have been absolutely lack
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-10
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The Keep Well Column
CAMP SANITATION

Every fisherman. hunter or lover
" Nature who turns TO camp life