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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-05-18
LIBERAL BANK CREDIT
Big Loan Will Not Affect Business
Credits.

New York, May 17.-Positive assur-
ances that the banks of the country,
while facilitating in every way pos
sible the purchase of Liberty Loan
bonds, would avoid curtaining bank
ing credits required for business pur-
poses, were given yesterday by James
S. Alexander, President OF the Nation
al Bank of Commerce and member of
the General Liberty Loan Committee
of the New York Federal Reserve Dis
trict. Mr.. Alexander had just re-
turned from Washington, where he
discussed banking conditions with Sec
rotary of the Treasury McAdoo. He
placed particular stress upon the fact
that the resources of the banks, sup
plemented by the enormous and yet
almost untouched resources of the
Federal Reserve institutions, would
be more than sufficient for all bust
ness demands and for the purpose of
the Liberty Loan Business, he said,
must be fostered and continued on
profitable basis, irrespective Of the
Liberty Loan, and the banks would do
their duty
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-05-18
Alexander Drysdale d Son
LIVES UP TO RECORD
Norwich Sends 35 Per Cent to Of
ficers Training Camp.

Mortified, May 16.-From all indi
cations, Norwich university, the
oldest military school of any kind in
the United States, West Point ex
cepted, which has furnished more Of
licers for the army for every war in
which the country has been engaged
since the war of 1872, West Point
again excepected will on doubt live up
to its past record Norwich is sending
So per cent of its undergraduates to
the officers training camp at Platts-
burgh and other points. in addition to
supplying number of officers for the
marine corps, navy and regular army.
In addition to this, Is undergraduates
are now engaged in giving military
instruction to home guards. high
schools and other military units Ten
undergraduates. who are too young
for the Plattsburg training camp
have left the university to take up
work on the farm in assisting in the
matter of food production.
Norwich university is attempting
to continue its academic courses, and
will carry out its full college schedule
for the year. The class attendance
has been greatly reduced. and some
classes have had to be abandoned as
there are no students for them. For
those who are still in attendance, no
part of the academic or military in
is being neglected.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-05-18
LICENSE 10 SELL

STATE OF VERMONT, District OF
Bennington SIS.
| The Honorable Probate Court, for
| the District Aforesaid:
To all persons interested in the es-
tate OF William Hawks Cone. minor
OF said Bennington.
WHEREAS. application in writing
hath been made to this Court by the
guardian of William Hawks Cone for
license to sell a portion of the real
estate OF said ward, viz: Situated
in the Village of Bennington on the
east side of North street. so-called in
said Village. Representing that the
sale thereof for the purpose of putting
the proceeds of such sale at interest.
or investing the same in stocks or
other real estate, or using the avails
thereof for the benefit of said ward as
the law directs would be beneficial for
said ward
WHEREUPON the said Court APP
pointed and assigned the 4th day of
June 1917. at the Probate Office in
bennington in said District, to hear
and decide upon said application, and
ordered that public notice thereof be
given to all persons interested there
in, by publishing this order three
weeks successfully in the Bennington
Evening Banner, a newspaper published
at Bennington in said District, which
circulates in the neighborhood of
those persons interested therein; all
which publications shall be previous
to the time appointed for the hearing.
THEREFORE, you are hereby no
titled to appear before said Court, at
the time and place aforesaid, then and
there in said Court, to object to the
granting of such license, if you see
cause
Given Under Ny Hand at Benning-
ton in said District. this 10th day of
May 1917.
Amy II. Harbour.
Register
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-05-18
BlLLlC; FOR WILSON
Urgent Deficiency Bill Gives Him
1855 ,252, 500 To SPEND

Washington, May l6.-President
Wilson is being given the funds of a
millionaire to spend as result of the
war.
When the urgent deficiency bill
passes, congress will have voted the
President 1865, 252 500 to be expended
lat his discretion
Here is how big allotments have
been made
National security and defense,
100000
Purchase of nitrates and other
fertilizers. $10,000000.
Purchase and construction of
ships, S750.000,000.
Operation of ships, 100000.
Total, 1865 ,252 500
The President also has been au-
thorized by congress TO act with Sec
rotary McAdoo in lending $3,000,O00.-
600 to the Allies
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-05-18
How to Save the Drinking Man

Give him scientific medical treatment the
sam AZ You would do if he had typhoid fever
The Neal Treatment. taken at the Manchester
Neal Institute gS2 Hanover Street. Manchester.
n II removes the CAUSE of continued m
diligence. Ask for free book Phone ,54 VI
60 Neal Institutes in Principal Cities
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-05-18
DOUBLE PAY FOR ARMY
House Insists $50 Minimum and
Measure is Adopted.

Washington, May 16,-After forcing
another change in the Army Draft bill
the House finally adopted the confer
ence report today. and il the Senate
acts tomorrow the bill probably will
be in the hands of the President to-
day
The House sent the bill back to con
ference today because the conferees
had changed the section relating to
the increased pay of enlisted men,
House conferees were instructed to
insist upon an increase of SIS q
month, which would make the pay Of
the average enlisted man $50 month
during the period of the war. He will
receive an additional 20 per cent. il
sent on foreign service.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-05-18
Responsibility.

What an empty thing life would he
without responsibility! The shut in
who is in life without the RESPONSE
bllities of life provides responsibilities
for others. His burden becomes light
or when he is made to feel that to an
other il is ala incentive.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-05-18

in drug stores everywhere. To avoid
Limitations and ineffective substi-
tutes be sure you get DR.. Caldwell's
Syrup Pepsin. See that facsimile
of DR. Calwells signature and his por-
trait appear on the yellow carton in
which the bottle is packed. \ trial
bottle. free of charge, can be obtained
by writing 10 Dr. w. b. Caldwell 455
Washington St, Monticello, Illinois.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-05-18
A Left Handed Compliment.

Ie-A handsome woman smiled al
me yesterday. She-Well, it is possible
for even Il handsome woman to have a
sense of the ridiculous.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-05-18
Tho SteelXarc.

The steelyard. u simple weighing de.
vice that is still in vogue, was used by
the Romans in SO y. c.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-01-07

Observation-Disclosures compensating type minus springs,
water jacketed.
Gasoline Systen-Vacuum feed type gasoline tank
TransDssOn-Un with motor seective type center control
Three speeds forward and Hardened steel gears
transmission shaft mounted on ball and roller bearings.
Gear Ra0-Touring Hip to roadsers 5l2 to l..
Ciutch-Ieather faced cone type.
DrueHotchkiss type through springs Tubular drive
shaft with extra large universal joints.
Rear Are-Full floating
Brakes-Servce brakes external contracting emergency
brakes internal expanding Brakes adjustable by thumb
SpringsFront semellipc. Rear, three-quarer elliptic
derslung.
Uphostery-Extra quality long grain French leather.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-09-28
GREAT ROBBERY , IS PLOTTED FOR
 LARGE FORTUNE
Many Wild Rumors Arise Concerning Wealth of
 Deposed Military
 Leader in China.

TIEN-TSIN, Sept. 2S.-Many wild
 rumors have been circulated in Tien- Tsin concerning plots to steal the
 great wealth which the family of
 General Chang Hsun, the deposed military leader is supposed to have stored in this city.
 Fabulous reports have been cfrcu- lated concerning Chang Hsuns for tune. It has been estimated at sums varying from $10,000,000 to $100,O00,- 900.
 | Many precautions were taken to protect the home of Chang Hsun in the German concession, after re-
 ports were circulated of the possi- ole attempt to plunder his estab- | lishment A gunboat was ordered to steam up the river, and make ready | to direct machine gun fire against any raiding party which might at tempt to enter the generals home. A resourceful official entrusted with the protection of Chang Hsun's residence posted placards on all the gates, announcing that it was an office for the collection of taxes. | After all these precautions had been taken, it was discovered that | Chang Hsun's wives and other rela- | ives were really not in their home n the German concession but had
 sought quarters in the British con | ,ession without advising the Chinese officials.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-09-28
RED CROSS DRIVE AMONG ESkIMOS
 IS PLANNED
One of the Few Native Teachers in Alaska to Begin Work
 in the North.

SEATTLE, Sept. 23.-(By Mail.) In the remote, snow-capped villag- es on the coast of Northern Alaska, almost completely cut off from the outside world the native Eskimo will soon hear the call of the Red Cross The drives for funds have long since been held in cities, towns and hamlets throughout the United States but the drive in the Far North is yet to come.
 Mary Westdahl, one of the few native teachers in the government service in Alaska, who was visitor in Seattle last week at the home of Dr. and Mrs. C. O. Lind, at 715 Bell vue Avenue North, has imposed the task upon herself She will lead the drive and she hopes to list hun dreds of native children and elders in the St. Michaels district among the contributors to the cause of hu- manity.
 Out of the far Northern post for the first time in four years, Miss Westdahl gained her first real know ledge of the war in which the Unit ed States has plunged. While here she learned of the work the Red Cross is doing and she became an enthusiastic member probably the only Eskimo member in the West. To Direct Campaign at Film
 There was not much work she could do in strange Seattle in behalf of the organization, but when she left last week to resume her work at Film, native village in the Der ing Sea district between Nome and St. Michael. she was determined to direct Red Cross campaign in that district.
 The Eskimo government teacher has an interesting history. Her par ents died when she was four years old and she was placed in mission at Unalaklik. Dr.. Lind was for years a district superintendent in the government educational service in Alaska and Mrs. Lind, while mak- ing the rounds with her husband, became interested in the child. When the physician left the service and came to Seattle he brought the na- tive orphan with him. Dr. and Mrs. Lind took the girl into their home and kept her as one of their fam il. although she was never legally adopted. The girl went through the public schools in Seattle and then took a special course in primary teaching.
 At the age of 19 she returned to her native land and received an ap- pointment as teacher in the govern ment service. She has been sta tioned at many of the most remote posts in the North and has proved an efficient instructor, according to her supervisors.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-09-28
CAMBLES S10O,000 AND THEN COMES
 OUT WITH A WAD
Alberta Farmer States His All on Profits for a Year at 6 to l
 and Won Out.

VANCOUVER, B. C., Sept. 20.-- By maiD-This is the, story of 8 100000 gamble-a six to nothing ,hot-that won $600,00O in the wheat fields of Alberta Within the week press dispatches have carried the news that the Nobleford wheat farm If 1,4OO acres had been harvested with a yield of fifty bushels to the ere. This patch on Mother Earth 3 the same one that-history record ed last year as the most productive f any in the worlds wheat areas. ,OO-acre patch carried yield of fif- bushels to the acre also stated hat R. c. Noble, owner of the No ,leford farm, had an additional 19,- 200 acres which would net thirty ,ushcls to the acre.
 The Canadian Grain Commission within the week has also placed the )rice of wheat at $2.21.
 The Nobleford crop on all these ,road acres has been cut and thresh- ing has begun.
 Here are the interesting details of he big gamble:
 Sinks Entire Profits
 R. C. Noble sunk his entire prof ts of last year on the prospects of BOG, O,OO0-bushel crop this year. This means first, food for a year for ,erhaps 10000 or 15,OO0 people.
 The record of last year, to some men, would have been enough, but not so with Noble. A 1,000-acre :rop was some gamble in itself even in the best of times. But the Noble Ian had an abounding faith in the oil and their abilities as farmers. 1000 acres of land was good hing 10000 acres was ten times 'etter. So another risk was Taken, nd 14,000 acres of wheat, nothing but wheat, was planted. Fourteen housand acres of wheat means a field a mile wide and twenty-two niles long. or g square about four and one-half by five miles.
 Summer Rick Bic
 
 It took money to prepare this and and put in the crop, to watch it through the summer, to cut it, harvest it and thresh it. But the fisk was the summer Hail, rain. drought, snow. fire, rust and cut worms were risks which had to be met It took all the money of the big 1916 crop and much besides to finance the huge wheat-growing en- 'erprise. besides ploughing. seeding, and other work. And if the crop failed it meant a heavy financial blow. It would have wiped out all profits of 1916. Still the managers of the Noble farm had the cour- age. They have won again.
 What their profits will be this year can be figured without paper and pencil.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-09-28
HOSPITALS OF
 ITALIANS ARE
 UP TO MINUTE
Praise Given the Bases at the Front by An American Watching
 Their Worth.
THOUSANDS TREATED

ROME, Sept 28-Lieut.-Coi. George can Red Cross commission to Italy, has just returned from fortnight s visit to the Italian front, where he travelled the whole distance from the Carso to the Tretnino, with a view to making report on the as- sistance which the United States can give in this hard-fought field. Speaking to the Associated Press, Colonel Baker said:
 "I saw the small advanced dress ing stations of two or three little rooms. Through one of these more than 11.g00 wounded passed in sev- enteen days. I saw many base hos pitals containing from 300 to 3,OOo beds. These hospitals often were installed in buildings of separate wards, where before the war no buildings existed In other cases. houses and buildings already stand ing were used I found, without ex- ception cleanliness, effective main tenance and most skillful doctors and surgeons.
 "The American commission visited a number of camps of Austrian pris- oners containing 5000 to 5000 men each. It was pleasure to see the camps so we'll conducted and such high regard shown for the prison CTS. Ordinary soldiers in the pris- oners' camps slept in tents and the officers were quartered in huts. The prisoners received the same rations as those given to the Italian sol diers"
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-09-28
lneompatabiIity

Fair Client-I cannot live happily with a man whose ideas are 60 contrary to mine.
 Lawyer-In what do you differ?
 Fair Client-Well. he doesn't be- lieve In debA-( (Exchange.)
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-09-28
FRANCE TO PUNISH
 DRUNKENNESS; LAW
 HAS BEEN PASSED

PARIS, Sept 2S-The chamber of deputies has adopted bill against drunkenness in public places, which, having already passed the Senate, now becomes a law
 The bill has been back and forth between the two houses for more than two years.
 The measure provides punishment by fines and Imprisonment Persons mourning four convictions within three years may be deprived of the right to vote or to be elected to office. to carry arms, to serve as jurors and may also be deprived of parental rights over children.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-09-28
CANADIAN COMPANY OPENING BIG MINE
 OF COPPER IN B. C.

NEW YORK. Sept. 2S.-The Can adian Copper Corporation, Ltd, will begin the erection of its 3000-tOL mill on it's property near Princeton B. C., immediately. Development in the mines is being pushed, that the mill may be run to capacity as soon as possible after it is com pleted.
 Anticipating operations on large scale. the company is building mod ern town on it's property and an ex tensive power plant is being in stalled.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-09-28
STRUCK ON HEAD
 BY GERMAN SHELL
 MAN IS DECORATED

AMERICAN FIELD HEADQUAR- TIERS IN FRANCE, Sept. 2S.-News has just reached the camp that an American Brigadier General has been awarded the War Cross by the French High Command. He was struck on the helmet by a piece of shrapnel during an action, presum- ably on the Verdun front He es- capped without injury The helmet shows the shrapnel mark.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-09-28

Phone t to The Empire. No. s7l,
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-09-28
$ AT so!

AMSTERDAM. Sept. 2S. The Berlin Vossich Zeitung declares that the recall of Captain Celery, Ar. gentine naval attache at Berlin which was announced yesterday had been contemplated for months, and is not connected with the Lux burg affair.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-09-28
CANNERY TENDER HERE

The big cannery tender l.. H. Sissons, of Klawack, west coast of Prince of Wales, arrived in Juneau last night. The Sissons brought home a number of fishermen who have been working at the cannery during the summer.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-09-28
SPAIN IS GETTING WISE

MADRID. Spain, Sept. 2S.-Three submarines which Spain ordered in Italy before Italy entered the war and which recently were completed have arrived at the port of Tar ragona after 2 forty-eight hour voy age from Genoa. It is stated that six mora submarines are under con. structiQn.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-09-28
HOLLAND NEUTRAL
 IF NOT ATTACKED

WASHINGTON. Sept. 28. = Moth ing less than an invasion of her soil will drive Holland into the war, according to members of tho Netherlands mission here to take up the matter of food exports with the American government.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-01
Licenses for Restaurants

The decision of the Health Department
10 license every eating place in the city,
from hotel dining rooms TO free lunch
counters in saloons, is admirable. II ought
TO mean protection for the public, in the
assurance Of wholesome and clean food,
prepared under sanitary conditions, such
rs the public has not now. At present the
;,cal,h Department makes inspections Of
eating places and cndcavors to compel the
proprietors TO keep them clean and SAM
tary and to serve only sanitary foodstuhs.
But the orders for bettermcnt arc easily
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-01
The Handicap of $75.27 a Day

You can buy everything for your chill
dren with money except the blessing of
poverty. That seems to be the chief moral
of Master John Jacob Astor's existence
upon S75.27 a day. Perhaps you could buy
even the blessing of poverty if human nat
ure were different. But even parents with
a great deal less day know how hard it is
not to make the way sheltered and soft and
fluffy and predigested. Courage to give a
child free room in which to develop and the
hard food of life to cut teeth upon is about
the most difficult contribution asked OF
fathers and mothers by relentless Provi-
dence.
The handicap is terrific when you swad-
die child in $4,000 year. 1t is almost
overwhelming. Life ceases to be life as
most fortunate humans know it-a thing
to wrestle with and fight against and re-
mould into something nearer to ones i'm
agined desire. It becomes something COM
plete and perfected and shiny, served up
on a silver tray, like a very complex and
wonderful mechanical toy. Fortunately
children have a saving wisdom which
makes them weary of such Celebrations,
and carefully smash them into little bits
to see how they run. Your poorest little
rich child will show pathetic preference
for a mud puddle as against $40 magic
fish pond. He may even improvise many
of the blessings of poverty in the midst
of his ermine coats and mink robes But
the handicap is there all the time.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-01

to compel immediate and unquestionlng
obedience. The department has never
taken advantage Of the most obvious means
Of enforcing improvement the making
public Of the results of the inspection.
Under the proposed licensing system the
authorities will be able to revoke any IL
cense the holder of which declines to obey
an order for improvement in the condition
Of his place Thus they will have a power
over the proprietors 'hich should enable
them to enforce standards which will war
rant the customers confidence. The ad-
vantages of revoking a license over bring
ing suit IN court to enforce an order are
obvious Even the stupidest or crookedest
proprietor of an eating place would appre-
ciate the difference.
This is an important and far-reachlng
step in the pure food campaign, though by
no means revolutionary or unprecedented.
Customers hereafter will have the right to
assume that any restaurant doing business
has the approval of the authorities and IS
what it ought to be. If it isn't the authori-
ties will be as much at fault as the pro-
prietor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-01
Abolish the Boxing Commission

Governor Whitman will do the state a
service and not impossibly serve the cause
Of clean sport also, if he brings about the
repeal of the law under which the so-called
boxing commission holds Office. The law is
an anomaly. There is no better reason
WHY the state should be in partnership
with prizefght promoters, taking part
of the gate receipts Of each exhibition,
than there is why it should declare itself
in on the profits of the baseball magnates.
But if the prizefight promoters are deemed
so bad and Enthusiastically that there must
be state regulation of then-the only ex-
cuse for the existence of the Athletic Com
mission by all means let the present
scheme be wiped out and decent, work
able one be substituted.
Since its creation this body has been
constantly involved in scandal. The hrst
fight held at Madison Square Garden under
the law produced a scandal with every pre-
sumption that the state was cheated OF us
legal share of The receipts. subsequently
a particularly disgusting and brutal night
caused Governor Dix, who had signed the
law 70 recommend it's repeal. The Assem-
blv. then Republican, passed repeal bill,
hut the Senate, under the same Democratic
influences which had pushed the original
bill to adoption, killed the repeal. The law
deserves repeating now even more than
then. because it has proved its futility more
conclusively.
Straight, clean boxing has its legitimate
place in the field of sport. The conditions
which have grown up under state regula-
ton are altogether vicious. It is time TO
have "A fresh deal.