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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-10-28
A Lawless Nation.

The outcome of a Rutland county
case in which jury acquitted a
man who shot his wife because he
suspected her OF infdelity, the ac-
quittal being on the ground that he
| was insane at the time the murder
| was committed leads the Burlington
| Free Press to deplore the prevailing
laxity with reference to our IDEAS OF
the stage OF insanity which inables
| person TO commit murder with i'm
punity and immunity.
This insanity idea is merely a cloak
| for crime. The Free Press says
"One of the chief banes of Ameri-
can life is the east with which crime
| defies the public and escapes just
penalty A man kills his wife, and
twelve men acquit him because he
was not responsible by reason OF in
sanity Another man kills fellow
| man because he suspects the latter
Of talking with his wife, and he
shields himself successfully behind a
brainstorm. \ wife kills her hus-
band because she had suspicious
and she escapes the penalty of her
crime because of temporary aberra-
ton of mind. And so it goes All
of these men and women were APP
parently normal just before they
committed the crime and as soon as
they had escaped the gallows or the
electric chair following the shedding
IF human blood. Yet we go on de-
Llofing the multiplication of crime
in avig .,,
utter helplessness.
AS the Free Press says, the Ameri-
can people seem to have reached that
stage of sentimentality or have al
lowed their sense OF Justice to de
generate to a point where any per
son has only to feign insanity to com
nit murder with entire immunity
and the point has been reached where
we need to undergo a course of train
ing in a moral kindergarten school.
Some training that will bring about
decided change in the prevailing
American attitude in this matter is
certainly needed
Statistics bear out the charge that
Americans are the most llwless peo-
pie in the world and that in this ma
ton human life is held in very light
regard Not only along the line
above referred to but all crime. re-
lating either to person or property,
seems TO be regarded with in creasing
indifference. and disrespect for law
and legal restraint seems to be
growing evil in American life.
a quickening of the American
conscience in this matter is needed
to preserve the social fabric of the
nation and redeem the country from
its reputation Tor lawlessness.-E
burg Standard
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-10-28
christmas Trees

The Rutland Herald invariably has
spell" about this time of the year
regarding the annual Christmas tree
cut. 1t broke out in the following
words this year:
The annual Christmas tree slaugh-
ter is about to begin. in Orleans coun-
ty, which according to the Barton
Monitor, is excellent business If we
happened to own pasture adjoining
a woodlot, we should prefer to have
the trees grow and become timber.
The Monitor needs to add little to
what the Springfield Reporter has
said in answer The Monitor does not
believe in all OF the Christmas tree
cutting it has seen, but it does be-
lieye that the great majority of it
as practiced in Vermont, is best done.
Land suitable for tillage or grazing is
best cleared of growing trees, spruce
or other species. All other areas are
best left to grow timber. Our obseT
walton leads us to believe that most
Christmas tree cutting is done in
pastures where the land can best
serve man by grazing cattle The
Springfield contemporary well says:
Surprising that was the only pasture
you had, and every spruce tree made
that less pasturase for your stock,
and few years of letting " ,he trees
grow and become timber" would make
1t impossible to pasture any stock
and thus render your farm worth so
to rs per cent less what then? In
many cases it is shortsighted policy
to sell the rapidly growing spruce
trees for a song, just as the Herald
thinks, in others it would be better
to give them away than to allow them
to grow and spoil otherwise good pas
ture. This the writer knows, having
been born and bred on a farm where
just this has since happened to an
otherwise excellent grazing field
Barton Monitor
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-10-28
Used il Eleven Years

There is one remedy that for many
years has given relief from coughs
colds, Group and whooping cough II
is probably the best known family
cough medicine in the world and be.
cause it contains no opiates is strong
ly recommended for children as well
as adults. Mrs. Charles Rietz, Allen
Mills, Pa, writes: 81 have used
Foley's Honey and Tar for eleven
years and | would not be without it,"
1t promptly relieves hoarseness, tickl.
ing throat, bronchial coughs, inflamed
and congested membranes and per
mits refreshing sleep, Sold Every
where.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-10-28
S1N0 Reward. SlNO

The readers of this paper will be
pleased TO learn that there Is at least one
dreaded disease that science has been
able to cure IN all it's stages and that is
Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure Is the only
positive cure now known to the medical
fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional
disease, requires a constitutional treat
ment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally. acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system, there
by destroying the foundation OF the dis
ease, and giving the patient strength by
building up the constitution and assisting
nature in doing its work. The proprietors
have so much faith in its curative pow
ers that they offer One Hundred Dollars
for amy case that II fails 10 cure. Send
for 'ist OF testimonials
Address: II. J. CHENEY G. CO. Toledo. o.
Sold by all Druggists he
Take lIalrs Family Pills FOR constipation
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-10-28
oentle-But Sure

A powerful cathartic sometimes
does as much harm as good Foley
Cathartic Tablets are mild and gentle,
but sure in action. They are a whole.
some physc that thoroughly cleanse
the bowles, sweeten the stomach and
benefit the liver. For indigestion.
biliousness. bad breath. bloating. gas
or constipation, no remedy is more
highly recommended. They cause no
gripping, pain or nausea. Stout per-
sons recommend them because of the
light feeling they bring. Sold Every
where.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-10-28

Howard d. Hadley, o trained news
paperman, who has travelled 10000
miles in SO states in the past four
months investigating political condi-
tons, is of the opinion that the com.
ing election will be the closest the ma
ton has known in 80 years. He be-
lieves that Hughes will win, but in
several of the states the result is IN
doubt. There never was a time When
conditions were so generally mixed.
There are several big bodies OF men
who will cast their votes almost Who'll
ly regardless of party lines.-Brattl.-
boro Reformer
All reports from the middle west in.
dictate that Wilson is gaining steadily
there and largely on the ground that
he has kept us out of war and will
keep us out no matter what the prove.
cation. If these reports are true, and
they are too many and too frequent
to be entirely without foundation, it
shows that with the example of the
European war before them a large
part of the American people are earn,
est in their demand that this country
at least keep the peace. 1t is fairly
evident, however, that a similar senti.
ment does not exist in the eastern
states. 1t is possible in Vermont all
ether eastern states to find Republi-
cans who are fer Wilson because he
is a pacifst but the same investiga-
ton will disclose more Democrats
who will vote for Hughes becaus.
they do not like the presidents stand
in relation to the foreign war and the
situation in Mexico All the reports
go to show that Hughes will moi have
the walkover that seemed likely
few weeks ago. Republicans may as
well accept the manifest truth that
the election is in uoubt.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-10-28
Saturday, October %, 1916.

Potatoes have taken another iump
and are now 1925 per lushel in many
places in Vermont With -four above
SO per barrel and going up the pros
pect foI people CT small income is not
very bright. At the same time there
are probably ten thousand good farms
in Vermont either not cultivated o. 50
nearly dormant that they produce
little. These farms are mostly in the
market at a very low price. AS The
Banner has often remarked the best
opening in the country i)r a !nan OF
moderate ability is on a farm If he
knows something about the business
and is willing to work as hard as he
would in shop or factory.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-10-28
A government bond

is a sure thing. So are our annuity
bonds, which pay a fixed income as
long as you live. as true as you live.
Send for rates. National Life Ins.
Co. of VT. (MutuaL) Earle S Kin.
sley, General Agent, Mead Building,
Rutland, VI Adv.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-10-28
Eoreian Missinns.

The first foreign missionary society
was established at London July -.
1919, being Il corporation under the
title of The Society For the propaga-
ton Of the Gospel In New England and
the Parts Adjacent In North America. -
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-10-28
IMPROVING OF
BAD ALLEYS
How q Small Town Bothered
lis Narrow Ways.
LIGHT IN DARK PLACES.
The Mayor Of Dyersburg, Tenn, Tells
Hcw AiIeys Have Been improved Un.
der His Administration and VIII Fur.
nish Plans and specifications 10 9th
er Municipalities.

nish Plans and specifications 10 9th
er Municipalities.
On assuming Office Ia january. 1914
we found that all the allcys adJacen;
TO the public square were being kept
In very inSanitary condition, says l..
Il. Carnc. mayor OF Dyelsburg, Tenn,
In the American CITY. II is true that
Dyersburg had garbage collection
service, but this cove cd cnly one cali
every seven days. Garbage cans were
usually filed IN one or two days and
from flat time unl,l the date Lxed for
the call Of the garbage wagon all
refuse WAS piled close to the cans
with the result that il was scattered
by the wind and tralic TO such an ex
tent that lie whole alley always pre-
sentcd very unsisLtiy and nsanitary
appearance.
We at once established daily gar
bage wagon service This. of course,
gave some relief: bur, owing to the
fact thar he alleys are only sixteen
feet wide. it was impossible for much
sunlight 10 reach them and they were
always damp aud insanitary
BY consent OF the property owners
one alley was paved with concrete, tbs
owners paying two.thirds of the cost
and the city one-thid out OF the gen
eral fund ~ the time this work was
done two feet on ode side was left TN
paved for the purpose of Installing a
water main later on This has now
been done and the wing of the alley
completed
After the paving Of this FIRST alley I.
was found that its slightly appearance
induenced both property owners and
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-10-28

Thales. who ilouriShed in 600 Il. c..
taught that the moon shoae with a
light borrowed from the sun.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-23
Charley Chaplin

Charley Chaplin in his new play, a burlesque on Carmen created some ex- citement in Cincinnati at the Grand the atre," said pr. H. M. Edmonds, the we'll kI-own Presbyterian minister. 'The Grand theatre has seating capacity, I under stand, of 2000, and is situated on one of the prominent streets there The crowds were so big that the sidewalks were blocked, and people were actually stand ing in the street waiting to buy tickets The press reports say that this is his greatest picture, and the way the Cin- cinnati movie fans were Hooking to see him, everything they say about it be- ing his best picture must be true.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-23

and her folk rather than for any dreams of her dominion. That her daisies should be untrodden of hostile feet her folk un- vanquished by cowardice or weakness or self-contempt, is his main patriotic prayer and expectation. But this carries the germ of democracy.
 Whatever the present anguish ana crisis may mean to English life or em- pire, the issue must be not weaker public spirit nor a lesser patriotism. De- mocracy has still to come into it's in- heritance The England thatShakespeare knew, was moving forward to become the England of his visions. Not yet has she attained, but her most hostile critics must admit that her soul is reaching forward and she is following after the vision that her poets have so constantly kept before her eyes. She is yet to be the Merry England" of a free and con tented, but active and aggressive people. Shakespeare is not in the tomb, lying there in the old gray church at the heart of England, but Shakespeares spirit is the heart of England
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-23
By GEORGE EAvEs, D. D.

of Shakespeare's life was crowded into such, a half-century. It was the half century that saw the Spanish Armada broken on the sands of time and the stage set for democracy and liberty in England. When Shakespeare died the English Bible was less than. five years old and was still struggling for popu- lar approval over the Genevan yer sion. His years had seen the latter pe- riod of its gestation (quickened as long ago as 1525 in William Tyndale) Milton and Cromwell were children, re- spectively, of 2 and IF years in 1616. The Tudor house had ceased with good Queen Bess in 1903.
 Just as now, so then, the vision of an imperial unity had deluged Europe with blood and tears, national pride was rear ing it's hydra head above the playground of the new civilization. In league with church or heresiarchs, it even then be- fooled the people with the great word
 greatness, as 1t does now. The mas- sacre of St. Bartholomew was in 1572 That young Hercules, democracy, had not begun to strangle serpents in his cradle, but his infant croonings could be heard booming through many cottage in the daily reading of the law of Moses, and in the psalms of David, and in the talk of those who would presently side with Rupert or Parliament. For commerce had been born, and the sea was a high way, and ideas were the new and strange commodity in which trade was keenest.
 Shakespeare was both more and less than an immortal, for he was racy of his own time and soil. He depicted real man because he knew men and had searched his own soul. His honeyed words concerning kings are offset by the confessions he puts into the mouths of kings-himself the creator of kings and he knows alike their grandeur and their feet of clay. Into his half century he crowds all kingliness, all wars all of Hercules and of Eros. Therefore he is not hurried. His cataclysms sweep courts and armies from the scene, but they move with speed, not haste.
 His love for England IS for her daisies
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-23
STIAKESPEARE,S HALF-CENTURY

Being, I suppose, the one and sole at the same time a native of Shake speares town, I, on this tercentenary of his death. render an oblation of piety' somewhat befitting the occasion in these words:
 The old town is today thronged with notables who have laid down for a moment the cares of statecraft, though the days are pregnant with crisis, and they sit in the old Trinity church, or in Guild chapel, eblow to elbow with great and famous editors, actors, au- thors and dream of the personality that entered the stage at that unex- pected doorway S52 years ago. They will gather at the Memorial theatre. they will visit Shotteoy and Charlecote park and the villages of the Crabtree legend and the ruins of Kenilwortb castle; they will saunter by the river and perhaps take roach and Dream and dace and perch and chub from it's quiet waters, where the aroma of a great name mingles with the scent of violets, primroses and hawthorn, with whom my spirit also wanders and at this dis tance lays my offering on that tomb whose heart may be Stratford but whose edges parallel the confines Of the world.
 As a very little boy, shared in the abilities of Shakespeare tercentenary in 1864 There was a. shining medal with the face on one side and the house on the reverse. There was a blue ribbon that went around the neck of all Stratford children and there were pyrotechnics, the piece de resistance being the outline of the familiar house done in glowing fire. There were tables spread ip the chief streets, at which all the inhabitants were fed by the gener- was popular presentation of Merry Wives,' with local celebrities on the stage with the greatest living actors. Half a century has passed and all
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-23
COMMENCEMENT IS ON
Marion County High School Com
 pletes Fourth Year

Guin, April 22.-(Special.)- 1.-The fourth session of the Marion County High school closed yesterday and the commencement exercises began today with the following programmes:
 mencement exercises and address by Prof w. c. Blasingame of Auburn.
 Il a. m-Confederate memorial address by Senator Frank s. White of Birming- ham.
 12 noon to 4 p. m.-Joint Sunday school picnic.
 1 to 2 p. m.-Maypole dance, an outdoor scene from Shakespeare's Midsummer Nights Dream
 p. m.-Japanese operetta. "A Princess
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-23

are a disgrace in an enlightened com munity.
 Tt will be observed that the plan of dealing with the negro schools calls for numerous consultations, all of which are made in the interest of economy, as we'll as to assure the high est degree of efficiency.
 With this presentation of the, large, needs of the schools, your two boards submit the issue to the people of Bir- mingham, confident that they will, by voting for the school bond issue on June 5, make the provision that should
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-23

'New building for the accommodation of the children in the vicinity of Thomas furnace and the plant of the American Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry company. No facilities whatever are provided in this territory at this time.
 New building and site for the King ston school, the new structure to be large enough to care for East Bir- mingham school, now occupying rent ed structure.
 Tn every instance these negro schools are frame structures of the flimsiest character and many of them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-23

be made for the education of their children.
 GEORGE B, WARD, BEEN M. JACOBS, "SYDNEYs J. BOWIE, MRS. D. A. ECHOLS. "E. P. HOGAN,
 y. B. GIBSON. Members of Board of Education. GEORGE E. WARD, JAMES WEATHERLY, "ARLIE BARBER,
 sJ D. TRUSS,
 "J R. IORNADY, Members of City Commission"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-23

Chrysanthemum' under the direction of Miss Gray.
 Sunday, April s2s, Il a. .m--C Commence ment sermon by the Rev. S. E. Shrygley of Nashville. k s p. m.-Sermon by the Rev. S. B. Shrygley.
 Monday, 10 a. m.-Graduating exercises.
 Il a. m.-Annual address by the Rev. W. H., Mansfield of Fayette.
 p. m.-Play, "In a College Town" directed by Miss Gatchell. 7cs
 The graduating class is composed of Pauline Springfield, Selma Altman. Bar bara Watkins, Walter Adkins, Uriel Weeks Marvin Wright, Claud Sizemore and Garvin Pope
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-23

Commissioner John R. Hornady, head Of the department of health and educa-- tion, completed his report on the needs of the schools of the city yesterday and on the manner in which the $2. .ooo, ,O0o school bond issue will be expended. if acted on favorably by the voters. The report of Commissioner Hornady is heartily cop- cured in by the members of the board Of education and the city commission.
 In his survey of the situation Commits sioner Hornady cites the fact that the school needs have multiplied with alarm ing rapidity in the past few years, while il is matter of record that for the past six years. not single school build ing has been erected in Birmingham.
 As to how the funds that will be avail able for use if the school bonds are sold will be disposed of, the joint report of the board of education and the city com mission recommends the construction of two high school buildings one on the Southside, and one in the eastern sec- tion of the city. The building of sub- stantial negro building is also recom- mended.
 The report also dwells on the fact that the passing of the S2o00,00O bond issue will not increase taxation, as under the present law about S500000 from direct taxation goes into the interest and re- demption fund.- This money will ade- quately take care of the interest of the school bonds without the imposition of an additional burden on the taxpayers.
 The school survey of the board of eau cation and the city commission as pre- pared by Commissioner Hornady, follows:
 THE REPORT
 The school needs of Birmingham have multiplied with alarming rapidity during the past few years and the time has come when positive measures must. be adopted in order to meet the situation
 During the past six years no new buildings have been erected. let, in the meantime, the school census shows the school population has increased at the rate of more than 2o0o per year. The census figures are as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-23

and buildings to be provided with nee essary sanitary equipment.
 New building for the North Bir mingham school, which is now occupy ing rented building of six rooms.
 AT AVONDALE
 The Avondale and Patterson school. to be consolidated on a site approxi mately midway between the, present sites and an adequate building pro- vided.
 "A new building for East Lake ne gro school which now occupies rented property.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-23

New Structures Will Be Placed in All Parts of Greater Birmingham to Care For Rapidly Grow ing School Population Many of Present Struc- lures Need Repairs Single School Build ing Erected in Birmingham During Past Six Years
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-23

(Note: Of course. the increase in 1910 was largely, though by no means en- tirely, due to the extension of city limits)
 The county census figures. where there has been no change ill the lines, are as fellows:
Evening star., 1916-08-02
.WASHINGTON-A ANNAPOLIS
ROAD WILL BE URGED
Business Men From Here and Balti-
more to Attend Hearing Set
for August 10.

Many Washington and Baltimore
business men are expected to be pres
! ent at the hearing before Commissioner
Zouch of Maryland state roads in Bal
timore. Md. August 10, regarding the
construction of national defense high
way between Washington and Annap-
oils. Among those who have signified
their intention of attending and urg-
| ing the construction of this road are
| Thomas 2. Littlepage. Representative
Mudd of Maryland, C. c. Magruder,
Osborne 1. Yellet. Eldridge E. Jordan
| and Frank NJ. Duvall.
The Maryland Legislature has made
an appropriation OF s125,000 for such a
| road, and Maryland's pro rata of the
SSo.000.000 for federal help in road
building this year is $4,000. The busi-
ness men hope to have the building of
this road ordered. as it will form a di-
rect route between the capital of
Maryland and the capital of the ma
ton.
1t is said that the route over which
the road is to pass goes through a sec
ton of Maryland greatly in need of
good roads.