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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-26
CHILDREN IN THE WAR
How Canada Takes Care Of Soldiers
Families-Biq Pensions Given.

Washington, June 26.-How Canada
provides for the wives and children
of her enlisted men is described in a
report by S, Herbert Wolfe, of New
York prepared at the request of the
| secretary of labor and just published
by the children's bureau of the United
States department of labor.
In presenting the report, Miss
Lathrop, chief OF the children's bu.
reau, says:
In the so years since the Civil War,
legislation affecting the family and
its economic status has shown mark
ed growth Mothers pension laws
and minimum wage laws are recog-
nized examples, and it is acknowl.
edged that their result has not been
to pauperize but distinctly to i'm.
prove the power of the family to pro-
tect itself In view of this tendency
it is to be expected that system of
compensation for soldiers and sailors
can be developed whereby the GOV
eminent will make possible for their
children. the home life and parental
care which are the common need of
every child
The report points out thatrin Can
ada two notable elements haNe been
added to the government PROVISION
for soldiers and their families First
insurance on the lives of soldiers is
carried by various Municipalities.
and. second, the Dominion. has under.
taken as part of its military system
the re-education, in a suitable occu.
patton, of the disabled soldier so
that he can assume again, in whole
or in part, the care Of his family
The Canadian compensation for the
soldier and his family includes not
only sS3 CT monthly pay for the pri-
vate in active service but a separa-
ton allowance to his dependents of
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-26
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NORTH BENNINGTON

All members of the Baptist church
and Sunday school. who wish to at
tend. thel County picnic Wednesday
can. procure their tickets at the
church, Wednesday morning.
Remember the rehearsal of the pic
mic music tonight at the Congregation
al church. Prof, Chambers Of North
Adams will be there All North Ben
nington and South SALISBURY singers
requested to be present.
Automobiles will start from the
postotiice at North Bennington at all
hours Wednesday TO convey those who
wish TO attend the County picnic in
South SALISBURY. The schedule of
prices given in Monday nights paper
was not correct The fare for adults
will be 10c. one way and for children
sc.
The meeting of the Woman's Mis-
sionary society of the Congregational
church, which will be held with Mrs
BIZ Henry at Riverside, has been
changed from Wednesday to Friday
afternoon at o'clock. The leader
will be Mrs. G. H. Farnsworth. All
members are requested to carry their
money for the golden anniversary gift
to this meeting.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-26
NEW MIRACLES OF STEEL.
What the Laboratory Has Done For the
Automobile Maker.

! Writers of historical fiction perpet-
I uate the notion that the art of the
old armorer has persisted. And yet in
cars sold for only u few hundred dol
lars aXles and crank shafts are to be
found infinitely superior in texture to
the weapons of famous swordsmiths.
The tales of supple yet tough blades
that could be bent into circles without
swapping are eclpsed in the less art
fully phrascd reports of tests conduct
ed with crank shaft steel in the metal
lurgical laboratory Of any large auto
mobile factory.
Could the old swords be twisted
through six complete turns before they
broke? An axle shaft can be so twist
ed. What was the tensile strength of
the mace that Godfrey of Bouillon or
Richard of the Lion Heart welded?
How far, In other words, could 1t have
been stretched lcngthwise before it
parted? No one knows.
But the automobile Inetallurgist is
sure that it was not the equal in that
respect of a modern valve stem-a
slim little member that can be extend
ed half Its length in testing machine
before it snaps in two.
AS soon as the metallurGist discover
ed that the properties OF steel could be
subtly changed by the addition of very
small quantities of such elements as
chromium, carbon. manganese nickel,
tungsten or vanadium-as soon, in 9TH
er words, as the problem of making
the automobile durable and safe had
been solved by research-the designer
Vcntured to consider the economics of
motoring. Heavy automobiles endure,
but they consume much fuel, and they
wear out expensive tires very rapidly.
Light automobiles are more cheaply
maintained. And so new demands
were made on the laboratory in the
effort TO save weight without sacrific-
ing strength or safety.
Is gear required with teeth on the
outside as hard as tool steel and yet
with a core that shall be soft and
tough, gear that shall not weigh
more than a given number OF ounces?
The metallurgist is asked not only TO
discover the formula for a steel out OF
which a part can be made and which
must be examined with the microscope
to detect the wear to which 1t has
been subjected after having run 10000
miles, but also to indicate the methods
that must be followed by the furnace
men In heat treating the metal.
Without the laboratory the designer
would be helpless. There would be
little progress from year to year.-Wal-
demar Kaempffert in Harper's Maya
zine
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-26

| 500 a month from the Dominion gov
| eminent and further assistance Of
| special cases from the Canadian pa
| triotic fund.
| The example, the wife of private
| soldier with three children between
| the ages of 10 and Is may receive
either SIS or 500 from the assigned
Fay of her husband, $50 separation
| allowance. and $25 from the Canadian
patriotic fund, or in all $50 or SOS a
| month.
If her husband is killed. she will
receive $40 month for herself, and
an additional So month for each Of
her children until her boys are l6
years of age and her girls are IL
years OF age In addition, If she lives
in Toronto or one of number or
other cities, she will receive life in
surance This will be paid to her in
monthly installments unless she
shows that she needs the entire
amount at once to pay off a mortgage
or to make start in business.
If her husband is disabled, she will
receive n special maintenance allow
ance while he is having medical
treatment and learning a new occu-
patton, and when he is finally dis
charged, if his physical disability
continues, pension will be paid &C
cording to the extent of his Disability
and the number of his children under
10 or II years CT age.
Mr.. Wolfe is an actuary of recog-
nized authority and he has analysed
especially the municipal provision
for life insurance by which certain
Canadian cities have supplemented
the pensions provided by the Domin-
ion for dependents OF deceased sol
diers. In Toronto, the municipality
has not only purchased s10,00O,0O0
worth OF insurance from private COM
panies, but it is itself carrying more
than $32.000,0O0 worth Of insurance.
A municipal insurance bureau has
been organized aud $4,000 900 worth
of bonds have been issued of which
the principal and interest are charge
upon the general taxpayers of the
city. Every officer and enlisted man
residing within the city limits of To
ronto who volunteers for oversee SER
vice. has from the date of his enlist
ment been protected by life insur-
ance policy of $1,000, the protection
running From the time of his enlist
ment to his death or six months af
ter his discharge or resignation.
The report refers also to the fact
that each of the European countries
makes government provision for the |
families of private soldiers and sail |
ors. In Great Britain. France, and |
Germany the amount of the govern |
mental separation allowance depends |
,ipon the size of the family which /
must be supported.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-26
"Clearinu the PIate.v

Some gray headed men who grew up
in New England remember the custom
That prevailed in many families of max
ing boy or girl clear the plate" or
cat what was left at another meal be-
lore getting anything else. That was
not irrational or cruel. The child was
permitted to help himself or herself.
If too much was taken the discipline of
having to eat it sooner or later was
wholesomely educative. We may get
back to it. Waste is never justified in
prosperous families or other families.
1t is a big element in giving children
an utterly false idea of what makes
prosperity, at least in binding young
sters to the vitalism of thrift on which
all accumulation is ased.-Brooklyn
Eagle.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-26
MINTING OUR DIMES.
rb Way the Silver Coins Are Made,
Counted and Packed.

| The process OF dime making is an
Interesting one. The silver bullion Is
first melted and run into two pound
Jars. These In turn are run through
immense rollers and flattened out to
The thickness OF the coin. These silver
strips are then passed through a ma
chine. which cuts them into proper size
for the presses. the strips first having
been treated with kind of tallow tu
prevent their being scratched in their
passage through the cutters.
The silver pieces are then put into
the feeder OF the printing presses and
are fed to the die by automatic ma
chinery AZ the rate of 100 per minute,
5000 dimes being turned out IN a
regular working day Of eight hours.
As the smooth pieces are pressed be-
tween the poHaerous printing dies they
receive the lettered and figured i'm
preston in manner similar to that
of paper pressed upon form Of
type. At the same time the piece Is
expanded in slight degree, and the
small corrugatioas are cat into Its rim.
The machine drops the completed
coin into receiver, and 1t is ready
for the counters hands The instru-
ment used by the counter is not Il
complicated machine by any means, az
one might suppose. 1t is simple cop
per colored tray, having raised ridges.
running across its surface at dis
lance apart the exact width OF dime.
From the receiver the money liz
dumped on the board or tray, and MS
it is shaken rapidly by the counter
the pieces settle down into the spaces
between the ridges. All these spaces
being filed, the surplus coin is brush
ed back into the receiver, and the
counter has exactly 1850 silver dimes,
or 1925. on his tray. which number Is
required to ill the spaces. The tray
is then enptied into boxes, and the
is ready for shipment. Louis
Globe Democrat.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-26
THE EVENING BANNER
BENNINGTON - VERMONT
Tuesday June 20, 1917
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of The Town and Village TOLD
Briefly for Busy Readers "a

NOTICE--Second, First Aid to the
Injured class will meet tonight.
E. l.. Nichols is in Albany today.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Spargo were in
North Adams Monday.
Prof. A. de Pierpont is greeting his
many friends in town today.
James McClaren of Ohio is spending
a vacation with his parents in Ben
nington.
Miss Ella Lyons OF Rutland is spend
ing three weeks vacation with rela-
tives in town.
The regular session of Bennington
Lodge of Elks will be held Tuesday
evening, June 26th, at p. m.
Mrs Simeon Sorossen and Miss
Maria Hogan of Division street were
recent guests in North Adams.
Gregware's famous banjo orchestra
will be at Foresters hall Wednesday
evening, dancing to /. Adv
The meeting of the home missionary
| society which was to have been held
| at the Methodist church tonight has
been postponed
| Decorations, automobile flag hold
err, allies flags, American silk and
| bunting flags for July 4th patriotic
parade at Evans. Adv.
| e. s. Casselman, who was in town
to attend the Bennington County For
est. Fish and anne dinner, returned to
| Dorset this morning via the auto bus
line. ira
| y. Il. ingalls,, state leader of girls
and boys club work will be in Ben
nington Friday afternoon. He will
| meet all the leaders of the garden
clubs in the high school that after
| noon at o'clock
Mrs. Il. w. Gibson of Brattleboro
| accompanied her husband, Captain
Gibson, who is making his headquart-
ers in town while making series of
enlistment lectures in various parts
OF Bennington county this week
A surprise party was given to
Francis Kelley at the home OF his
parer's on Gage street extension Fri
day evening by his friends. A lunch
con was served on the piazza which
was decorated with Japanese Ian
terps very enjoyable evening was
spent.
There will be a public meeting in
front of the courthouse tomorrow
Wednesday evening. June q at 745
o'clock to encourage enlistment This
is the last call for volunteer enlist
ments in Bennington and the recruit
ing office in Bennington Will close this
week. There will be three or four
five minutes addresses -.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-26
Wants a Rainy Wedding Day.

The Swedish girl prays for rainy
day on which to get married. Then
before she goes TO the ceremony at
tired in her wedding clothes she milks
the COW, feeds the calf and steals q
breast feather from the hen Thet is
to bring her husband good luck. The
Swedish bride wears loose shoes, un-
buttoned and united. at her wedding
In one is a silver coin, in the other
gold one. This is 10 bring her the nee
essaries and luxuries of life.--Chicago
Tribune.
The alien population of New YORK
state is estimated at 100000.
The rail journey from Constantinople
to Bagdad requires flfty-fouT hours.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-26
Always a Fighter.

In Lloyd George, the Man and His
Story" we are told that Lloyd George
was fighter from the beginning and
that one of his earliest foes was the
Established church. AT twenty-five he
beat out the clergy in their effort to
keep an old Nonconformist father from
being buried beside his daughter in the
churchyard of a village at the foot of
Snowdon. Take the coffin in by
force" said he, ''if necessary. If the
churchyard gates are locked against
you break them down." 1t was done
so, and the chief Justice at London up
held the local jury which decided that
the action was within rights.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-26
Retort Caustic.

A tourist was having his boots pol
ished by an Irish shoeblack. and as the
latter was administering the finishing
touches his patron rudely tossed two
coppers Oh the pavement as a reward.
This insult, added to no doubt by the
fact that the reward was the mere rec
ognized twopence, caused the shoe
black to eSclaim:
Thank We. sir. The only polish You
have is on your boots, and | gave You
that. london Telegraph
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-26
MakITiu a Marine.

II 1t takes longer to make an efficient
marine than to make an infantryman.
This because the marine is n man of
many specialties. He is. of course, in
season and out of season, an interna-
tional policeman. That's his job in
time of peace. But when he fares
abroad to fight his country's battles he
may be called upon to do almost any
kind of work. He may be an artillery
man. signalman. an airman. He may
he. and usually is, anything that his
country needs mt that particular time.
And he is trained to meet the emer-
gency.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-26
Lime In the Garden.

Lime will speed up garden crops. 1t
is particularly beneficial on new land.
For both flower and vegetable gardens
bydrated lime is safest to use. Sprinkle
II around the base of the plants and
along the lows close to the plants, but
not touching them, and work IT in the
soil.-New York Sun.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-26
Rnihnr IInnIeasant.

q won my wife W saving her from
drowning"
"Ah. that was romanticr
1T seemed so once. But now every
time | do anything that doesn't suit
her she tells me she wishes l had let
her drown Kansas CITY Journal.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-26

Secluded in suburb is Young man
contemplating matrimony. Last even
ing he went 10 his father for advice.
Dad" he said, do you think "A man
should be the boss of his homer
well" replied dad guardcdly, the
husband is credited with being the
heaC OF his house. hut I've not met Il
man who had good recipe for bossing
a WIFE Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tele-
.rranh
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-26
SETTING Her RIGHT.

Freddie Ind Just proposed to Mile
NO, Freddic' she said, Il cannot
marry you. The man who gets me must
be grand man. upright and square"
my dear girl" said Freddie, you
don't want a man; you want piano"
-Pearson's Weekly
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-26

Small. Irregular shaped, transparent
spots in negatives are known as PIN
holes. These are usually caused by par
ticles Of dust resting on the film during
development
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-26
FOR SALE
Extra Good Quality Horses

At astonishing low prices. We have
l pair Of bays 2900. pair of blacks 2700.
6 extra good single horses. Call any
business day. We allow trial. Money
refunded If not satisfactory. Hicks
Bros. Flag Stables. North Adams.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-10-27
"ENEMlEs WITHIN"

The Public of New York, foresees
an end of pacifist- baiting and intol-
erance as soon as the nations fight
ing spirit finds an outlet on the bat
tle-front. 1t says editorially:
students of war psychology who
were ia England during the months
subsequent to August, 1914, were pre-
pared for the cyclones of public opin-
ion that are now expanding their en-
ergy in this country. There was the
same repression of discussion, the
same pacifist batting, the same en-
deavor to focus national antagonism
upon some person of national import
ance. And more is to come We
have so far been spared the shame of
anti-German riots, like those that
took place in London after the sink
Ing Of the Lusitania. But we are do
ant for the enemies within It
might have been predicted that lead
ership in this crusade of persecution
would arrive in due time from Oyster
Bay. But The Foes of Our Own
Household leaves grave doubt as to
whether Mr.. Roosevelt is a good citi-
zen loyalty cooperating to win the
war. This kind of petty civil war
must be- highly pleasing to the Ger
mans. But 1t will soon end. 1t
means that the war is not yet a real
ity to Americans. When our energy
and our antagonism find their ma
tural outlet on the front in France
there will be less inclination to find
goats here upon whom to work off
our battle fury. Some people are 80
loosely corked by nature that pre-
mature explosion is their inevitable
rule of life But it is a waste Of en-
ergy. Let us save it for the titanic
task that confronts us. Let La Foil
cite alone. No matter how wrong
headed he may be, it is no reason
why we should be guilty of shallow,
senseless mania of persecution. Let
US get to grips with the real enemy
on the real battlefield. Let us not
prepare for an effort of deadly seri-
BUSINESS by being merely childish"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-10-27
THE ARMORY AGAIN.

Within the past week the old ar
mory, completely remodeled so that
it bears not the least resem blance to
the old building, was formally thrown
open for inspection to the Shriners,
who purchased it from the city.
As one peruses the account of the
celebration, the thought occurs, how
much better would it have been had
all the citizens of this city been re-
joicing over the benefits to be de-
rived from the ownership of such a
splendid building instead of the
members of just one organization.
1t is needless to relate how press
ing is the need for a public building
and social center such as the old
armory would provide, especially
when it is considered that but for the
lack of foresight and common sense
on the part of a few city commits
sioners, who apparently held alleg-
lance to a society above that to the
people, the property would not have
been disposed of for mere pittance,
and would still belong to all the peo-
pie.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-10-27
FEARED BY The POLITICIANS
(From the Mesaba Ore)

Many of the leading weekly news
papers Of the state have refused to
accept the "scare'' sent out by the
politicians because the entrance Of the
Non-partisan league into Minnesota
political affairs, and have, instead,
gone into the merits Of the undertake
ing.
The Non-partisan league is farm
ers' organization, and notwithstand-
ing all of the vilification, misrepre-
sentation and wilful lying done by the
politicians and newspapers of North
Dakota, the league recently elected it's
congressional candidate and gave
North Dakota a real peoples repre-
sentative in congress.
That's what our politicians are
afraid Of.
The farmers of the state have come
to realize that they will never get
anywhere by following the old party
leaders, and in the operation Of the
league they have found the means
for gaining the representation they are
justly entitled to-and they are en-
titled to great deal.
The effort to blow down the Nom
partisan structure by declaring it a
disloyal and unpatriotic organization
will not accomplish its destruction,
because the subterfuge is so thin that
anyone with a grain of common sense
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-10-27
The ]: Lab R WORLD
TRE:FLAe AND ALIvlNG /.
". !, . WAGE FOR WOMEN
(From Detroit Labor News. )

?
(Froms Detroit Labor News.)
Does the flag on the roof of the
store or factory justify keeping the
girl working at less .than a. living wage
in the basement? -. -
dollars. A living wage to employees
may cost thousands during the year,
out It il right, and just as called for
as the flag:
the American flag means moro
than willingness to die on fields Of
battle. 1t means justice tt men.
women and children, at home and
abroad. Less than a living wage is
neither Just nor in keeping with the
American flag.
The question Of an adequate wage
for women engaged in the war indus
tries cannot be kept hidden and must
receive more than scant attention.
The labor movement demands that
women called to take the places of
men be paid equal pay for equal
work.
1t is the most elementary justice that
labor be paid on the basis Of value
and not on the basis Of sex. Personal
interest and welfare nemand it. If the
wages OF a. trade are lowered in one
place, the whole industry is affected
and the standards of thousands of
women must suffer. Duty to the
fighting men dictates it. When the
men return from the front at the
close OF the war they must not find
that their standards have been broken
down by the women who have taken
their places in a war emergency.
The government recently called for
a large number Of women workers to
go into munition factories. The wages
offered to them were much below the
standard paid to men for doing the
same grade Of work, the maximum
Tor the women being the minimum for
the men.
The question cannot be evaded in
this country, no more than other
countries could dodge it. France and
England had to settle this question
satisfactorily to themselves and the
women.
It Is in the best interest Of national
life that human material be conserved.
The national conscience must stand
behind all workers who demand a liv-
ing wage in war time, and especially
behind the women. Requiring work
ers to show their patriotism by aban-
doning standards which do not admit
of lowering without injury to health
is the sheerest folly.
Furthermore, women should not be
put to hazardous tasks which endan-
ger their lives or undermine their
physical we'll being. Remember, they
are the mothers of the coming gener-
alton, and during the period Of recon-
struction that will follow the war, we
will be hard pressed for physically fit
men to do the necessary work.
Women must not be exploited be-
cause of their sex.
Equal pay for equal work" is a
good American patriotic slogan and
it should embellish the employment
offices Of every industrial establish
ment.