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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-09-03
THE SOCIALIST VIEW.

The special committee appointed by
the Socialists a year ago to study the
liquor problem says In its report, pre-
sented May 13 to the national commit
tee in Chicago that total abstinence
Is the only absolutely safe and wise
course to pursue" in view Of the dis
astrous effects of excessive drinking.
Many of the authorities quoted in
the report in condemnation of beer
are German. Among alcohol's recorded
opponents are 500 German and Aus
trian doctors. One statement is that
beer is not the harmless beverage
many of the German people think It
ls."
THE Socialist party" declares the
report, cannot remain Indifferent or
inactive, but should take a definite po.
sition and active part in combating
the evils of alcoholism"
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-09-03
PROHIBITION PROGRESS,

CBy JAMES MIDDLETON. in Worlds
Work.
About two years ago Mr.. William
Jennings Bryan gave a diplomatic din
nerin Washington. distinguished par
ticularly by the absence of wine I'm
mediately the world burst into a roar
Of laughter; Europeans. especially,
hailed the proceeding as an amusing
Illustration of American provincialism
A few months ago the king of England
announced that he would himself ab-
stain from alcoholic drinks for the rest
Of the war, and that wines would no
longer be served in any of the royal
households. Nine American states
have adopted prohibition in the last
eight months. France has legally for
hidden the manufacture and sale of
absinthe, and the Russian empire is
dryer at the present moment than
Kansas or Maine ever were. Facts
like these testify to the progress that
the cause of antialcoholism has made
In less than year When the leader
of the most sophisticated society in
Europe follows the example of our
own somewhat homespun secretary of
state, the cause of teetotalism has
ceased to be ridiculous.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-09-03
WZERE MpxH, MS <zoo0<9AM Anp c2NT LqZL

twenty-five feet away in a low side chamber Is 10
be seen the place where the modeler scrapeu To-
gether the clay of the floor and kneaded II. Two
three worked rolls of his material stih lie
there. The whole thing looks as II done week
ago. and yet the bison has been absent from the
locality probably for thousands of years
The least suggestion of .skepticism is in keep
ing with the general impression that the visitor
retains from the painted caves. 1t Is most bar
fling experience When the investigation is con-
fined to the stratied deposits everything is beau
tifully simple. Art objects have definitely as
certainable place in the series and go back to
Aurignacian times. The cave proper is OF the
general style that of the stratified refuse
and must of course be of the same date: more
over. the animals represented are in nearly all
cases either extinct absent from the region.
And yet almost all the mural figures in the caves
within reach Of the hand. In other words,
the caves have undergone particular changes
since the artist did his work. Not few of the
paintings and especially the finer engravings
seem fresh II done yesterday. In the Pin
dal is the representation of fish incised
the wall and the visitor who examines II close
ly would swear that he could make line exactly
like 1t with lead pencil. but with Professors
Breuil and Obermaier standing behind him he
says nothing. And how did paleolithic man man-
age to get about in these caves? 1t is unsafe to
move ten steps in them without a light. 1t is
true that a very few stone basins have been
the Eskimo lamp. the artists right-hand man
may have carried torch; but there signs
of such torches of carbonzation on the walls
in the vicinity of the paintings, although smoke
spots made by modern lamps and candles held too
close abundant enough. The conviction that
this cave art is not old as some would have us
believe seems irresistible.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-09-03
Farrar upholds Safety Clause.

Denver.-The temperance bill for
the enforcement d statewide prohibi-
tion on Colorado beginning Jan. 1
next was properly passed, SO far as
the safety clause is concerned. accord
ing to Attorney General Farrar. The
statement of the attorney general was
made as result of an investigation
of the action of the General Assembly
on the measure in preparation of the
states defense in the manadamus
proceedings brought by liquor inter-
ests TO compel reference of the bill
to vote of the people in November.
1916
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-09-03
ILLINOIS GOING DRY.

Illinois had twenty-eight prohibit
tion counties when the women were
asked to assist in destroying the sa.
loon by their votes. They responded
by driving them out of twenty.three
additional counties at the first cleo
tion. Four more counties were made
dry this year, making a total of fifty
FIVE. Seventy county seats are dry;
1924 out OF 1870 townships in the
state have outlawed the saloon. Not
one foot of dry territory has been
changed to wet during the two years
from May l, 1913, to May !, 1916.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-09-03
1eliiIlel7lill!b 7lll!b
e. @~1EaN
Conducted by the National woman's
Christian Temperance Union.)
EFFECTS OF BEER DRINKING.

EffEN OF BEEN OHINNIN0.
The political strength of liquor is
furnished by the wine and beer drink
ers. Whisky interests may be better
organized than the brewers and inter
fere more actively in politics, but
the votes which make possible the
sale of intoxicants are not furnished
by whisky drinkers, who do not al
ways vote as they drink. The beer
drinker generally will vote to protect
his habit, because he is far from con-
vinced of its malignancy.-From Edi-
torial in Chicago Tribune.
And that is why the w. c. T. U. and
other temperance organizations are
bringing to the masses the truth about
beer and its malignant effects upon
the human organism. Concerning
those effects the Life Extension insti-
tute says in published statement:
"One-half of one quart of beer is
sufficient to distinctly impair memory,
lower intellectual power and retard
simple mental processes. such as the
addition of simple figures. This mar
cotic or deadening influence is first
exerted on the higher reasoning pow
ers that control conduct. SO that the
lower activities OF the mind and nerv-
Gus system are for a time released.
The everyday. well-poised, self-con-
trolled man goes to sleep. as it were,
and the primitive man temporarily
wakes up. Eventually, the nervous
system is narcotized. and the drinker
becomes sleepy. Muscular efficiency
is at first increased little. and then
lowered. the total effect being a loss
of working power"
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-09-03
STATE CAPITAL
NEWS
Newspaper Union News Service.
CROPS ARE FLoURlSHING.
Fruit Prospects Good and Sugar Bees
in Fine Condition.

Fruit Prospects Good and Sugar Bees
in Fine Condition.
Denver = Colorado's outlook for
late fruits is excellent, despite the abb
sence of rain on the western slope in
localities for many weeks, according
to the crop report for the week end
ing Aug. "a, issued by F. H. Branden-
burg, chief of the Denver forecast
bureau of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture. The bulletin fol-
lows:
During the week the temperature
was below normal in the central coun-
ties. On the western slope the temp
erature was slightly above the sea-
sonal average. Warmer weather
would be beneficial on the eastern
slope.
I'm most of the central counties the
precipitation was heavy, and in the
eastern counties the rainfall was
ample for all needs. On the western
slope, however, practically no rain Of
consequence has fallen in localities
for many weeks. The sunshine was
insufficient in most central and east
ern counties. retarding the growth of
corn and other crops.
"Haying. harvesting and threshing
proceed satisfactorily generally. but
in some central counties the wet
weather interfered with outdoor work,
and the second crop of alfalfa was
damaged locally in some central coun-
ties by heavy rains.
THE outlook for fruit, especially in
the southeastern part of the state, is
good. Small grains made good pro-
gress, and sugar beets are in excel
lent condition. Ranges are in excel
lent condition. except in some dis
tricts on the western slope.'
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-09-03
Board Lifts Ban on Hog Serum.

Denver.-The Colorado State Board
of Livestock Inspection passed the
following resolution sanctioning the
use of hog cholera serum: Being sat
isfied that hog cholera serum and
virus produced in certain sections Of
the United States may be used with
out danger of conveying foot and
mouth disease, 1t is hereby ordered
that hog cholera serum and virus pro-
duced in plants licensed by the United
States government located west of the
Mississippi river, except such plants
as are located in the state of Mime
sofa and the counties Of Butler, Sedg-
wick. Sumner and Cowley' in Kansas,
will be admitted into Colorado, pro-
vided that no such serum plant shall
ship virus into Colorado except to
graduate licensed veterinarians"
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-09-03
A CORRECTION.

Newspapers and magazines are con-
tinually publishing erroneous state
ments with regard to the number of
dry states. A leading weekly periodical
publishes a prohibition map showing
II. Iowa is omitted. A writer in one
of the June magazines gives the num-
ber as 16, Iowa and Idaho both being
counted among the vets. Up to Sep
tember 21. 1914. there were nine pro-
hibition states. Since that time nine
more have been added. The IS pro-
hibition states, in the order OF their
going dry, are:
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-09-03
Board Defends Coal Lands Sale.

Denver.-That the land was sold as
result of a sworn affidavit that it
contained no coal will be the answer
of the State Land Board to the suit
instituted by n. S. Walpole to knock
out the mineral reservation clause in
the sale of a section of state land in
Weld county. near Erie. which has
now been found to contain coal de-
posits valued at no less than $1,000
600. A decision unfavorable to the
state would apply to all sales of state
school land in which the mineral
rights have been reserved to the
state. and would mean a loss to the
school fund of hundreds of thousands
of dollars through existing and fu-
ture coal land leases.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-09-03
Each Family win Receive sa,soo.

Denver.-Accidentsa averaging TWEEN
ty-eight per day have occurred in Colo
rado since Aug. /, when the work
mems compensation law went into ef-
feet, according to figures compiled by
The state industrial commission. They
include a total Of seven fatalities
Were it not for the compensation law,
according to members of the commits
sion, the families OF three of the men,
killed would have received nothing in
the way of indemnity. Under the new
law. however, each family will receive
S2,5OO.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-09-03
Smith Named on Capitol Board.

Denver.-As the first definite step
toward the abolition of the board of
capitol managers and the turning over
of the building to custodian, Mar
hall b. Smith of Denver was ap-
ointed to the board by Governor
arlson. His appointment is to fill
he vacancy created by the resigna-
;ion of Jesse f. Fleming. 1t is an un-
derstanding that he viii vote with the
governor and Otto Mears to abolish
the board.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-09-03
Ey77SA/XZ 10 The
\ rms lHZX CHEk12N

borious journey, VIZ
the representations oi
two bison tmale and
female) modelled IN
clay. The figures, which
are about two feet IN
length, are proppeo
against the sloplng
side of a rock which
rises from the floor
and in front Of the AMI
mails on the floor there
are some tracings as II
the artist had here
sketched and impro'
yised before beginning
his real work. About
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-09-03
SIMILAR, BUT DIFFERENT.

Mrs. Graspit-You always growing about
the household expenses, yet you used to say that
| could make dollar go twice as far as you
could.
1t 80 so blamed far that I never even get a
glimpse of 1t again.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-09-03
N. E. A. Elects MRS. bradford.

Denver.-Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford,
state superintendent Of public instruc-
tion. was elected second vice presi-
dent, along with nine others, in the
fifty-third annual convention of the
National Education Association at
Oakland. Calf.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-09-03
TWO WAYS OF EXPRESSING 1T.

oh, don't worry about such triies' said the
Indianapolis girl. Just keep stin upper lip
and you'll come out all right"
But" protested her fair cousin from Boston
1T is a physical impossibility for me to main.
tain a strict labial rigidity."
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-09-03
HE WAS SilENCED.

Said She-After all you must admit that
better than men.
Said He-Oh. don't know. The good book
doesn't say anything about seven devils being
cast out of man.
Said She-No. of course not he has every one
OF them yet.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-09-03
IN POUlTRYVIlLE.

Il love that chicken. said the young red
rooster, but she gave me the frigid claw"
oh we'll" replied the old brown hen that
probably the best she could do Her mother
was a cold storage eEE."
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-09-03
FEMININE SHORT AND UGLY"

You say Mrs. Gadders and Mrs p'',,'- er
changed the short and ugly word?"
That's what they did"
Shocking! Was il liar: B"
No Cat"
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-09-03
MuEVZ4Zz2VhvLH GIT 70
SzZZZZZ2 EH/oLY /z4N

HERE are recorded at the presen,
time for the southern two-thirds OF
Europe, including Mediterranean
Asia and Africa, no less than four
hundred paleolithic stations. that is.
places where remains of one kind
or another have been left behind
by early man. This man was pri-
marily hunter and his chief center
OF activity appears 10 have been
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-04-09
CHASG.COLE

/ Speaker John w. Weeks has made
good He is not a SNOWY man but has
| kept the members at their tasks and
so far as possible expediated the 'rk
| of the session His success as speak
er is a fine browning of his career at
Montpelier,
The session will be closed without
the development of a real leade-
About twenty men have shown some
! influence in the house and have been
on the right side of nearly all the I'M
portant questions before the body but
they have not always been able to
swing the house to their support.
| Among the men are Redfield Proctor
OF Proctor, Warner A. Graham OF Be-
| lows Falls, Stanley A. Wilson of Chel-
sea, A. l.. Hewitt of Plainiield, j. Greg
DRY Smith of ST. Adams. NJ. G. Mores
of Hardwick. w. p. Russell of Kirby,
A. W. Foote of Cornwall, Charles F..
Black of Burlington. C. +. Hamblctt
OF Barton, +. 7. Caswell of Derby
George e. Chalmers of Rutland, b. a.
Demerritt of Duxbury, w. b. Mayo OF
Mortified, +. f. Perry of Brattleboro,
j. A. Stacey of Hartford, f, e. Moore
of Ludlow, ]. s. Easton of Woodstock,
H. P. McClary of Windsor and w II.
Fairchild of Fairfield.
In the senate not so many men can
be named but there was n larger p-3-
portion of leading men. Among them
should be mentioned r. w. Simmonds
of st. Johnsbury, H. B, Shaw OF Burl-
ington, II. e. Cady of Mortified. Viii
liam Noonan of Panton, c. II. Smith
OF Bridport, Edmund Lafranchise OF
Bennington, NJ. l.. Powell OF Burning
ton, d. 6. Conant of Bradford, II. j.
Roberts of Pawlet and ~ l.. DiVoll OF
Rockingham.
The legislature of 1915 will be ac-
knowledged as diligent body. III
though only two other legislatures
were longer in session, we 40 not re-
call another legislature that had so
much important business before ii as
the present body. The settlement OF
the court question. the direct primary
law, workman's compensation act, re-
vision of the school laws, general III
corporation law, revision of the stat
utes to comply with the amended con
stitution, the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
act, the proposal to simplify court pro
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-04-09

+ ceedings, acceptance of the great Val.
gift and the regulation of venereal dis
ease are all new and unusual matters
Not all OF them have been enacted bat
they were big subjects and the pass
age of any one of them would be cred
liable to a legislature In addition to
these unusual things there was : rail
road fight, woman suffrage, new fist.
and game legislation and the taxation
/ struggle required a vast amount OF
work
So it must be admitted that IT was
an honest. hard working body. 1t did
some things some of us did not want
it to do and left undone some things
that some OF us wanted done, but what
legislature has not? We may critic Sc
some things when the record is com
plete but we must say its record as a
whole is very creditable and the great
majority of the members will r9turn
to their homCs with the consciousness
that they have served the grand little
state of Vermont diligently and honor
ably-St Johnsbury Caledonian.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-04-09
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village ToIo
Briefly for Busy Readers

Neopolitan ice cream at QuInlan's
Pharmacy. Ady4Stf
Lace and muslin curtains soc Il
$500 at Novecks. ADV.
Dancing from until u at the hop
in the Y. w. c. tonight. Admission
% cents. Adv.
New Queen Quality Shoes, Pumps,
Colonials and Oxfords $3.50 to $4.5O At
Noveck's. ADV.
Remember the band concert and
excellent picture show at the LiDr1ry
the 18th for the benefit of the band.
There viii be special picture pro
gram and special music by the band.
Adv.
The Bennington city band viii give
concert at Library theatre the af-
ternoon of the 18th with special
moving picture program Watch pro.
gram in this paper Saturday. The
proceeds will be for the benefit Of the
band ADV.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-04-09
DROPS LOCAL OPTION BILL

Albany, April S.-xThe 1915 Le.is.
lature calendar was cleared of all TEN
perance measures when the Senate
today, by non-partisan vote Of 25 to
II, recommitted the esibnolln.te. "
II rec0mmitted the Jones bill. provld-
ing for local option by election dis
tricts.
This measure was sponsored by the
Anti-Saloon League. The same meas
ure was recommitted in the Asseub-
~ on Tuesday.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-04-09
The Lenlsla,urs of 1915

We had expected to be able to pre-.
sent our readers in this issue u fnc
obituary of the legislature of 1915,
but the best we can say is that the
end is expected most any day. No ac-
curatc or complete review of its work
can be undertaken until it has passed
into dissolution because as long as a
legislature continues to meet unknown
possibilities are imminent. Some
things can be said now, however.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-04-09
NORTH BENNINGTON

Ralph White spent Thursday in
Troy.
Mrs. Frank Ripley is confined to
her home by illness.
Mr.. and Mrs Edward Simouds OF
Han farm were in Troy Wednesday.
Alva Robertson of 'Sandgate has re-
Gently taken delivery of a 1915 Max
well touring car purchased OF W. NJ.
Marshall.
The news room has been moved
from Edward Simonds store into The
basement room at Hotel White and is
in charge of Martin Percy.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-04-09
The clear, brilliant crystals

found in rocks and caves are not tie
work of minute or q day. Life in
surance is more valuable the longe"
you have it. and brings more satisfac-
ton the longer you have 1t. Ma
tional Life Ins. Co, of VT tMutuaL}
Earle S. Kinsley, General Agent,
Mead Building, Rutland, vt. ADV.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-04-09
Cash Paid for Wool.

We are always in the market for
Fleece Wool If you have any to Of
fer write us for prices before selling
elsewhere
Carroll S. Page, Hyde Park, Vt.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-03-16
GERMANS ARE CHECKED
rA.,r Inactivity Prcsages Failure.
rctroxr rad Relieves.

Npr'tfi ffhie Despatch t TIE StNN
IoSpoN. March l6.-Correspondents
- London newspapers at Petrograd
.~-.rllAte In their dispatches published
..s morning on the remarkable inactiv-
y ~ the Germans. The Daily Matt
correspondent says;
The Russian army occupies q strong
POSITION running east and west OF Frzas-
and to the frontier and they are
EN- awaiting the German attack The
.-s~y INDIGESTION is difficult to under
.-ad Apparently the Germans are ex-
.,rc troops from the interior Of Ger
ry. from the Bzura and Rawka dig
.o's. and perhaps also from the Pflitzi
con 10 replace Zen. von Eirhorn's
PM, slras. which has been sen into
he forest of AugustoN".
The Germans have everything To lose
y .iown.~S in beginning the crushing
y t. Russians. Already the frost is
o.,r.rs md when tho thaw comes the
We. WHl overflow. the roads will dis
per-. the iislis become hogs and
.r,u troubles will increase a hun
.i,pld'
Tn, 1uu.V correspondent indicates
-r '1, German offensive has been
o ,ri r, the Russian initiative. and
|rt. mo tltw in view miljtirt critics
%. .lr,td> taking positions along tho
~ Trus~iau border. This would
,ro,01uslv l,ugthcn the German front,
r their serious disadvantage.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-03-16
MUST SAVE ALIENS.
american Ambassador Wakes Vr
gent Demand on Turkey.

NIfftNt ' HFf W 49, fN'
ATHENS. March l5-A despatch from
Salouica SAYS that Henry Morgcntnhu'
the United States Ambassador to Tur-
key. tas demanded assurances from the
Turkish Government that foreigners IN
t'onstantinople will be protected ana
order maintained II the cliN ~ bonl-
barded. Mr.. Morgenthau has urged all
foreigners to leave the capital, but the
exodus is hanpered by the congestion on
the railways.
extreme measures for the protection OF
Christians. as an outburst Of fanatlcisin
il feared at any time, Daily services
arc hcing held in the mosques, and the
people are there assured that tonstan-
tiuople is not threatened and mat the
Dardanelles are i~mprcgnable Despite
this trenches are being dug around the
city and especially at the railroad STA
ZION. where a great NUMBER OF troops
are concentrated Fear that the british
and French will land an army are
openly expressed,
Other despatches received here from
~Constantfnoplc say that the Young
Turks are beginning to ind their posi-
tlou serious and tina some OF them are
contemplating flight, Many German
military officers are in the city superin-
,endening the work % defence, although
their families have been sent 10 places
Of safety.
IT is stated tina the sultan Selim for
mcrly the German battle cruiser Go"bon'
is ont ~ commission by reason OF The
fact that a Turkish mine tor" "A mol"
ntty feet long IN her side, Her gum
have already been taken of ana placed
in the Dardanelles forts.
TIE French hospital ship Canada ar
rived here to-day To take on supplies
ana will leave at once for the barda-
nclles. II is said that sh" has Sixty
convalcsCents aboard, but that none oi
them was wounded bN s%uushuts. In his
connection it is asserted that not u
single French sailor has been hit since
the bnmhardment began, hut this record
is not likely TO continue, AZ the Turkish
runuers are admittedly becoming more
: proficient.