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married Il cooking school graduate,
You snyy'
YES. but he's no fool
"No"
"rhe first household utensil he bought
was II can opener" birmingham Age.
Herald
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FOR SALE-A Pope-Hartford Tour
ing car, one OF the later types, re
finished and IN excellent condition
has not been run enough to need over
hauling or repairs, and has good tifes.
viii be sold at very low price. The
Bennington Garage, L. w. Williams.
63tf.
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WANTED BRUSH F.LLEBS-FX.
perienccd men can earn $3.50 a day
and over. Steady work. Apply Alpha
Brush Company, Second St, 4 Ninth
Ave, North Troy, n. y. Cts
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LOW PRICED ADVERTISING
WANTED

WANTED wood-workers.
Apply at once Arlington Refrigerator
Co., Arlington, Vt, 7tG
WANTED-The Monadnock Mills,
Claromont, n. IT,, wants help for its
weaving, spinning ana carding depart
ments Experience unnecessary. Good
pay and steady work. Mill has just
advanced wages ten per cent. Largest
town in New Hampshire. Write for
further information or come direct to
Mill Office. G. y. Tenney, Treasurer,
7t6
Observation-Disclosures Shop Help. OPP
orators; handy men; laborers. Deane
Steam Pump Co., Ilolyoke, Mass. ATS
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NOTlCE-WELL DRlLLtNG-Ma.
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Street Schenectady, n. Y. Telephone
connection. ste
NOTlCE-Read This! Judge Wood
bury, Franklin, n. H., was cured Of
deafness by magnetic treatments a
year ago and it has not returned Il.
Steadmon, Magnetic Healer l16 Pleas.
ant St. 7tGt
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WANTED--bady with child OF five
wants sleeping room and kitchen or
use OF kitchen with refined people in
vicinity of Bennington or North Ben
nington. Reasonable rent. Refer
ences exchanged. Mrs Nerder, %
Lincoln St, New Rochelle, n. Y. ste
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WANTED-To buy seven or eight
room house with modern improve
ments. Not more than minutes walk
from Main and Valentine streets. State
price and terms. Address b. Banner
Office. 5tb
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WANTED-Old false teeth wanted.
We pay up to $500 for old artificial
teeth, full or broken sets. Mail to us
and we will make offer If not salts
factory will return teeth city Tooth
Works, 40 Arcade Bids Rochester, N.
Y. 2tl2'
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FOR RENT--A furnished room, on
ground floor in the Levin dwelling No.
H. Pleasant street. This is a large
pleasant room and would be rented to
one or two ladies. Apply to Charles
N. Powers, Savings Bank Building.
92i.
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WANTED

TEACHERS WANTED - High
school and grade positions; rural
schools. Apply Hathaway Teachers
Agency, Bennington, VI, phone 226-
W. 55i
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FOR Modern double house
in good repair, now rents for ($5SD
per year. Located near Putnam House
square. A good investment. Price
s92O0 Nash A. Hutchins. 05tf
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FOR SALE-Timber lands, farms,
summer homes, elevation from five
hundred to fifteen hundred feet, stores
hotels and village houses. j. G. Mar
tin, Newfane, Vermont. 3toO"
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FOR SALE-The property Of the
late John Evans, consisting Of house
and barn and l. building lots located
in Allendale Park, so called; also a
pasture lot OF three acres with very
valuable water right thereon. Price,
S35o0 Nash & Hutchins. 05tf
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LOW PRICED ADVERTISING
FOR SALE

FOR SALE-Farm 90 acres, good s
room house, new barn, 30XlO and other
buildings, water at buildings and In
house, nice young apple orchard, 30
trees and other fruit. This place viii
keep ten cows and team, located on
main road, ? II miles from North Ben
nington. Price $500. Nash & Hut
China. Voll
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FOR SALE-Two seated station
wagon cut under, pole and shafts very
low price G. Worthington, Old Ben
nington. oto'
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FOR SALE-Handsom upright
grand piano used only three months
now at Manchester Center freight
house with only $129 due on it. Write
The Gibbs Piano Co., 1913 Main St,
Springfield, Mass. It-4
The Washington times., 1916-10-31

the case far more serious, in the
light of international relations. She
had been carrying horses from this
country, which is contraband traffic.
But on the westward voyage Of
course it was bearing no war sup
plies. The rule of international law,
when civilization still ruled, would
have protected the vessel from the
fate meted to It.
The Marina case suggests the
danger of letting a belligerent in
Germany's straits realize that the
Washington Government doesn't
mean all that it says in its diplo-
matte communications. Senator
Lodges revelations concerning the
Lusitania correspondence have
served at least to let the Berlin gov
eminent know--if it didn't already
understand perfectly, thanks to Mr..
Bryan's condolences to Ambassador
Dumba-that strong language from
Washington need not be taken too
seriously. Naturally, at a moment
when the Berlin admiralty was
anxious to test out American sus-
capabilities on this subject, such a
revelation was calculated to hearten
the radicals at Berlin. 1t is the COM
plete demonstration Of how a vacil-
lating and shifty policy may weaken
the national position.
That American lives have been
lost in this most recent submarine
operation seems to be almost beyond
doubt. The Washington Govern
meht therefore must, if the official
facts shall bear out present impress
sions, make plain very promptly
whether it meant all il said in the
Lusitania note. If there was a post
script, sent or unsent, taking the
teeth out of that communication, we
will know it before long, to a moral
certainty at~ieast, from the future
course of our State Department.
The Washington times., 1916-10-31
THE LAST SETTLING"

The last SETTLING down" of senti-
inent is what decides the results Of
campaigns. The closing week sees
vast number Of people make their
final decision how they will vote.
The campaign Of 1896 saw the most
impressive demonstration of this
phenomenon that has been noted
within the memory Of most political
observers now alive; but other cam
paigns have seen this crystallizing
process of the last week only less
manifest and palpable.
: Two weeks ago the Democrats
seemed to have the whip hand. They
were only praying that they might
keep it. They have lost it. The
question about the campaigns result
was simply a question whether there
would be another reforming, re-
shaping Of the crystals. There has
been. The last capitalization has
begun; it is in full process, and it
needs no seer to observe, to feel in
the atmosphere, to note from every
sort of comment, that it is pro-
Hughes crvstallization.
The Washington times., 1916-10-31
WORK OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS

Steady growth of Sunday schools
in the District and their increased
enrolment, as reported before the
annual convention of the Sunday
School Association of this city, now
In session. betoken a vitality and
vigor which may surprise those who
have passed beyond the stage of
first-hand knowledge of Sunday
school work.
Any group of organizations which
can attest strength of more than
$4,000 members holds great poten-
tial force for good. Such an en-
rollment, too, represents more
nearly the strength of Sunday
schools than would a similar state
ment of church enrolment, for Sun
day schools are not apt to continue
deadwood on their books.
Sunday schools of today have to
make an aggressive fight if they
would show increases in attendance
The Washington times., 1916-10-31

families where attendance of chill
dren at Sunday school is a foregone
conclusion. Parents now have a
habit of asking what Sunday
school has to offer, what 1t will
teach, how competent are its
teachers, and how much It's instruc-
ton relates itself to the vital knowl-
edge of living.
There are in Washington Sunday
schools where men of high rank in
professional, business, and scientific
work have classes Of young men who
are encouraged to be critical and
ask questions. In such schools
teaching long since has passed be-
yond the point Of instruction in
church dogma and doctrine.
Other schools have the services. of
public school teachers in handling
primary and junior departments,
and to the children in those depart
ments the Sunday morning session
is made interesting and not a routine
duty. There are schools where re-
ligion is tied up to civic and economic
affairs, and such schools have shown
themselves a force for civic good
and moral upbuilding.
The Washington times., 1916-10-31
MODELLING THE GOLD

The Federal Reserve Bank Of New
York has recently bought 100000
600 in gold bars that had been re-
ceived from Canada, and it is under
stood this is in line with a general
program of accommodating gold in the
possession of the reserve banks.
This is one of the functions for
which these banks were designed.
Doubtless there will be protest
from ignorant quarters against this
aggregation of basic money in the
possession of the great central insti-
buttons. It may be imagined what
Democratic campaigners would be
saying, right now, if the Republican
party were in power, if the currency
law were called the Aldrich act in
stead of the Glass-Owen law, and
il this accumulation Of gold were
part of the policy of Republican
Administration. But the Democrats
would be wrong in that case, and
other critics will be wrong if, now,
they protest this measure Of protec-
tion for the public against imitation.
When the war is ended there will
be determined effort by Europe to
restore such an exchange relation
ship as will make it possible 4 to
withdraw from this country much of
the gold that has been piled up on
this side. The gold will best serve
its purpose to this country, if when
there is demand for it the demand
can be met, and met, Of course, with
the least possible shock to our
financial arrangements. To keep
the physical gold in the reserve
banks for the time being does not
mean that it cannot be represented
in our circulation if there is need for
it; but it does mean, on the other
hand, that the metal will be where
1t can be reached most conveniently
in case of demand. Gold circulating
in the pockets of the general public
or scattered about the country in
small quantities in possession of
banks, is not in the most available
form or position.
In gathering the country's gold
stock into the most accessible boards,
this country is merely doing what
the countries of the old world are
being compelled to do by the
exigencies of the. war. Today, with
the trade balance heavily against
them and prospects that it will con-
tinue so for a long time, the great
European banks have need to con-
serve their stocks with the greatest
care. and to increase them in every
possible way. They were engaged
in this mobilization for some time in
advance of the war; especially Ger
many, which had a more accurate
impression, Of the war menace than
any other country. Now, the United
States is doing just what Europe
was doing then: preparing against
the time when there will be a press
ing demand for available gold re-
ao,,rcaa
The Washington times., 1916-10-31
Is THIS "RESTRICTED" SUB
MARINE WARP

The story of the Marina's destruc-
ton by German submarine is yet
incomplete. 1t is not known
whether warning was given; but for
all practical purposes it does not
seem to make much difference. If
warning was given, it was so closely
followed by the torpedoing that it
provided no insurance of safety, or
even reasonable opportunity for
safety, to the crew. The statement
that only thirty-four of the crew Of
1O4 have been rescued, stands un-
changed SO long after the disaster
that there seems small chance that
there will be a revision of it.
There were forty-nine Americans
on the vessel, which does not appear
to have been an admiralty ship. It
is measurably certain, in any case,
that if the vessel had been taken
over by the British admiralty the
Germans were no better informed of
that fact than were its owners; and
the British admiralty states that the
vessel was not under it's charter,
which must be assumed to be con-
elusive if the statement Is official.
That the vessel was outward
The Washington times., 1916-10-31
WHAT'S GOING ON IN
WASHINGTON TO-DAY

Lecture on the history OF styles and orna.
mentation. Zolnay Atelier- li26-ii3O + street
northwest. ( p. m.
Meeting, Association Of Oldest lnha bitants
Union Engine House, Nineteenth and II
streets northwest. $50 y. m.
Concert, Boston Symphony Orchestra New
National Theater. $50 p. m.
Halloween dance. auNiliaries OF the United
Spanish War Veterans Carroll Institute
Hall. sp. m.
Meeting, committee on bridges. Washinrton
Board Of Trade. In rooms of the board, I;So
Halloween masquerade ball Home Club. $50
Dance. Athedram Club. st. Peter, Han ,,s
Il street southeast. S y. m. "
Department OF Agriculture, Fourteenth .ns
u streets northwest, . a. IN. to D. m
Dance. Robert F. Lee Chapter. Daughter, n,
the Confederacy. Confederate Memorial
Dance. Kallipolis Grotto, New Willard Ho.
Meeting-The Washington Readers. Gin,
New Ebbitt Hotel.
Hall, Sixth and T. streets northwest
Dance, PhisAlpha Delta Law Fraternity.
Dance, Washington Lodge, No. Is, Benevolent
$40 ii street northwest.
Meeting to celebrate 3ssth anniversary OF the
reformation. Joint Mems Club Of TrinIty
and Christ Lutheran Churches, Trinity
Church. 1880 p. m.
Halloween dance, Georgetown Playground
club, Dempseys boat house, S D. m
Masonic-King David. No. 2s; East Gate, No
Odd Feliows-washington, No. 9: Go,d.,
Rule. No. q: Amity, No. "a.
Knights OF Pythias-ENcelsIor. No, Il. CAM,
tai. No. q; Webster. No. 7: Myrtle. No. rs
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Tomorrow.

Annual flower show Government hot houses,
Fourteenth and streets northwest. 0 a.
IN, 10 D. IN.
Annual meeting, United Hebrew Charities,
Eighth Street Temple, s p. m.
Meeting, Citizens Association of Chevy Chase.
Chevy Chase School House, 3 p, IN.
Dance. Fortnightly Dance Club, Studio Hall,
p. m.
Meeting, Wilson and Marshall Democratic
Association, white parlor, New Ebbitt. s
Meeting. Board of Education. Franklin School,
p. m.
Opening Night School. Maryland Agricultural
College. College Park. Md.
Exercises, Richard Arnold Chapter, ID. A. r.
Milestone No. !. Franklin Park. Va. 2:9O
o'clock p. IN.
Reception, board OF lady managers OF wom-
ans Christian Association. TO o'clock p.
m.
Tag Day, Benefit Holy Name Nursery.
Anniversary. thirtieth anniversary or found
salem, banquet TO be held 7OS o street
northwest.
Meeting, Cerciedes Precieuses Ridicules.
Lecture. History of Styles and Ornamental
tions" Zolnay Atelier. 1860 f street
northwest. I o'clock.
Masonic Washington Centennial, No. II. CO.
lumbia. No. l. OF the Royal Arch. Areme,
No. 10, OF the EASTERN Star,
Odd Fellows-Eastern, No. Z: Friendship. No,
II; Federal City, No. 20; Harmony, No. o.
Mount Nebo encampment, No. 8. Assembly
Home Circle of the Rebekahs,
knights OF Pythias-Mount Vernon, No. 81
Friendship Temple, No. g. OF the Pythian
Sisters, Past Chiefs Association, box party
The Washington times., 1916-10-31
Declares Improvement of Transpor-
tation Facilities VIII Serve to Re-
move Causes for War. Expects
Workers to Make II Impossible.

To the Editor OF THE TIMES;
After reading the statements Of ]. q.
p. Stokes and w. Z. Walling favorinE
national defense. permit me to say that
present conditions warrant II. but as I
understand Socialists, their object II
humanity above nationality, of which
the United States of America is a good
example.
Its different states have no fOrtinca-
lions or armies on their respective bor-
ders and yet contain probably every
nationality in them, and were Europe
a republic. with it's different nations as
states, the present war would probably
not have come.
The more transportation facilities arc
improved the less cause for war except
by ballot. and, to my mind. the aristoc-
racy of Europe Is chiefly to blame for
its bloodshed because the wage-work--
ers of Europe at present must do most
Of the fighting. and finally, as con-
sumers, pay the bills and suffer the
most. OSCAR TROMILTz.
~, 90 .>
The Washington times., 1916-10-31
Washington, Oct. 81. 1916.
Head of Citizens Association Favors
Wider Use of School Buildings by
Civic podiao

Civic Bodies.
To the Editor OF THE TINES:
Your excellent editorial endorsing the
wider use OF the public school buildings
is very timely and interesting.
The statistics furnished as to the
great number of activities now being
carried on in these buildings, such as
the. meetings of Parent-Teachers Asso-
ciahon. and of mothers clubs. OF cit
liens associations, of providing munich
pal Fairgrounds for our children and
the great number of night schools now
open, all of which have a great tenden-
cy to improve the parentage and cit
izenship OF this great and beautiful city:
I very mach favor the wider use OF
the schools under the proper regulA-
tions.
You query as to why more citizens
associations do not use the school
buildings as meeting places. Tho ex-
PLANTATION is simply this, that in most
Instances the membership of citizens as
sociations are limited to men only. who
like to enjoy their evening smoke dur
ing the meeting. This they could not
do In the school building, as there 10
very proper regulation prohibiting smok-
$40 A. ]. DRIsCoIiL.
Pres. Mld-City Citizens Association.
Washington, Oct. %. 1915.
The Washington times., 1916-10-31
THE "wET OR DRY" VOTES THIS
YEAR

If all the States that are TO vote
on prohibition a week from tomor-
row should go dry, more than half
the Commonwealths of the Union
would be in the prohibition column.
, Not all of them are expected to
carry the measure, but there is a
possibility that sufficient of them
will do so to make up a moiety of
the federation of States.
There are nineteen dry States now.
They are Alabama, Arizona, Arkan-
sas, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa,
Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, North
Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma,
Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee,
Virginia, Washington, and West
Virginia.
Those which vote on the subject
this year are the States of Califor-
MIA, Michigan, Missouri, Montana,
Nebraska, South Dakota, and Idaho,
and the Territory of Alaska. Idaho,
it is to be explained, has Statewide
prohibition by act of the legislature
already; a constitutional amendment
is being submitted, to write the pol
icy into the fundamental law so that
no legislature in future may repeal
it without vote of the people. 1.
is generally expected that the pro-
hibition amendment will carry.
The liquor question is. up toward
the top in all the Commonwealth
where it is under discussion. Cali
fornia has once rejected the pro-
posal, and by large majority. That
was at the November election in
1913. At that time the California
women possessed the suffrage, so
that there is no change in the sit
uation in this regard. Nevertheless
the prohibitionists profess consider
able hope Of carrying the State.
Three States are set down by the
"drys" as pretty certain to give ma
jorities for the dry measure. They
are Montana, South Dakota, and
Michigan, neither of which, in re-
cent years at least, has confronted
the square issue of Statewide pro-
hibition by Statewide vote. Ne
braska has for many years been
closely divided on this subject. Out
side Omaha the State is nearly all
dry at present, and there would be
no doubt of the measure carrying if
it were not for the hostility of the
metropolis. AS it is, chances are be-
lieved rather to favor the prohibi-
ton measure.
Missouri is counted altogether
likely to reject prohibition. One of
the most interesting elections on the
subject will be that in Alaska, where
lively campaign has been waging
in the somewhat extensive fashion
that things are done in Alaska.
There is a strong sentiment for
the measure, on the ground that
its adoption would make an APP
peal to the classes Of people from
whom Alaska hopes to gain immi-
grafton in the next few years. On
the other hand, the Alaskans with a
taste for their toddy shudder at
thought of the painfully long trip
that would be required, in case of
severe thirsts, to run over into the
next county" for a drink. Drought
in Alaska would be drought indeed.
The Washington times., 1916-10-31
The Ely in the Ointment.


Jennie loves her motor car. Jennie loves
to ride.
Jennie loves her chauffeur-I am he.
1 But Jennie hates the Blue Book with a
hate that's deep and wide.
and she would like to throw
all the Blue Books. with their
decimal system for indicating
distances. into
The deepest depths OF some far distant
sea.
We purr along the level and we roar
across a bridge.
We swing around the corners with a
whirr.
We dip into a hollow or we climb I'D
on ridge.
hut Jennie is porting over the
Blue Book trying to make out
whether II Is 8 miles or g
Of mile to the next fork In
the road,
So the landscape doesn't make a hit
with her.
The road becomes a little rough. the
letters seem to dance,
The breeZes blow the glasses from her
nose,
She grows exasperated-one can see II
at a glance
for having once lost the place
1t IN difficult to tell whether
turn right" refers to the next
turn or TO the last. and
How to keep the road then goodness
knows.
Jennie loves her motor car, Jennie loves
to ride.
Jennie loves her chaufreur-which is /.
But touring in the country has for her
| its seamy side.
for the the Blue Bird stands for
Happiness the Blue Book. to her,
stands for Misery, but
Perhaps she'll like It better by and by.
| E. J. w.
The Washington times., 1916-10-31

You veterans aided In preserving the
Union at a critical time, but In a very
true sense every veteran must preserve
the Union.-Hughes to the q. A. K.
veterans at Dayton.
We are compounded of all men and
dates;
All times. all peoples know our min
istry.
And at our beck and call the great sun
waits.
We must be strong or die, who hold
the fates
OF nations; there must be no mockery
In our large execution; we are free,
Yet freedom, only freedom venerates.
Once spake voice as OF tho sea and
earth
Across the waters. and 1t found US
dumb.
Dallying in golden nets and tipsy
That voice is merclnl and speaks
again
The world cries out to Free 1om in Its
pain;
Earl Simonson.
T. r. says that President Wilson,
Secretary Baker and Secretary Daniels
are all wearing spiritual pigtails" The
Colonel should SEND a ghost to twist
'em.
NEVER.
] never see a gondolier
Gondollng his gondola
But that l think
How rhythmical
Just like my BOnorola!
-Nurblieh.
The Washington times., 1916-10-31
Times Mail Bag
Suggested That Government Wages
Be Increased to Meet in Some
Measure the Increase in Cost of

Living.
To the Editor OF THE TINES:
High wages for all workmen and
low prices for all consumers. That
combination Is only a joke. Every
raise of wages is followed somewhere
by an increase In the cost of living.
II all wages are raised. II Is like trying
to lift yourself over the fence by your
boot straps.
II the wages of all are increased In
the same proportion, no harm Is done
TO other wage earners; but there Is no
net gain even then.
The great injustice comes when tho
cost OF living is about doubled. and
there Is no increase for some particu-
lar class. such as the employees in the
Government departments.
Most of the Government work requir-
ing expert knowledge and skill Ia done
by the Classified civil service. working
under a pitiably inadequate salary scale
made more than sixty years ago
THOMAS w. GII.MER.
waahin0ton a 1915