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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-12
KEEP LOOKING YOUNG
It's Easy-f You Know DR..
Edwards Olive Tablets

The secret of keeping young is to feel
young - to do this you must watch your
liver and bowels - there's no need of
having a sallow complexion - dark rings
under your eyes - pimples - bilious
look in your face - dull eyes with no
sparkle. Your doctor will tell you ninety
per cent of all sickness comes from in
active bowels and liver.
Dr.. Edwards, a well-known physician
in Ohio, perfected vegetable COM
pound mixed with olive oil to act on
the liver and bowels, which he gave to
his patients for years. .
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets, the substi-
tute for calonel, are gentle in their action
yet always effective. They bring about
that exuberance of spirit, that natural
buoyancy which should be enjoyed by
everyone, by toning tip the liver and clear
ing the system of impurities.
You viii know DR.. Edwards Olive Tab
lets by their olive color. l0c and 25c per
box. AL druggists.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-12

The Y. NJ. c. A. in the army work
is not sectarian. 1t has been COM
missioned by the government to do an
important work in connection with
the army of the United States. This
was not because of its creed or lack
OF creed, but because it had a work
ing organization already at hand
which no other society or organize.
ton could offer. The present can
vass to raise money for the service of
the Knights of the Red Triangle is
worthy of the support of every patrio-
tic person, whatever their race, color
creed or religion.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-12
How's ThisF

We offer One Hundred Dollars
Reward for any case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure.
r.. j. CHENEY G. CO., Toledo, o.
We. the undersigned, have known +. J.
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in ali business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by his firm.
NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE..
Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system. Testimonials
sent free. Price rs cents per bottle. Sold
by all Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-12
FRANK E. HOWE, Editor and Pub
Monday, November IL, 1917.

The Burlington News is getting
many compliments on its improve
ment under its new management and
these good words are deserved Bur
iingtor1'is the largest town in Yer
mont and is surrounded by thriving
towns and rural sections and we be-
lieve the people in it's territory will
be prompt to appreciate the effort put
forth by the publishers and staff Of
The News.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-12
Telephone Grandeur.

whats your opinion of Bomnas-
teri"
well. when / first met him he inn
pressed me as being a leader of men,
a ten thousand-volt dynamo. IL clarion
voiced czar who would brook no oppo-
sition; but when met him the second
time / sized him up for pusillani-
nous mouse.
where did you meet him the first
timeT'
"On the telephone"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-12

We think prices are exceedingly
high and the necessities of life hard
to get but, as a matter of fact there
have been times when similar condi-
tons prevailed. H. A. Bottum of
SALISBURY has given The Banner a
market report from the New York
Independent dated Dec "a, 1874 This
was nearly ten years after the end of
the Civil war and after war condi-
tons had been removed. The south
was back in the union mostly, the
coinage of silver had been resumed
and it was proved beyond doubt that
the, war debt. which had scared the
country, was not even a burden. Some
of the prices given in this old news
paper of 1874 are as follows: Sugar
8 1-2 to 10 ~ cents per pound; West
India m6lasses, so to 80 cents per
gallon; tea. rs cents to s1.1O per
pound; -four $40 to sl1.50 per bar.
rel; kerosene OIL Sc cents per gallon;
rice s to 10 cents per pound; prunes
l3 cents per pound, On other things
prices We're much lower than today
Beef was from 8 to 16 cents per
pound and pork and mutton were
slightly lower; butter was from IS to
So cents per pound; eggs from "a TO
Is cents per dozen; apples, 50 per
barrel; potatoes We're 50 to $3.50 per
barrel; chickens, 10 cents per pound
turkeys, Ia to 16 cents per pound,
rifle powder, 5 Ia cents per pound;
shot cents per pound; nails 9 cents
per pound; alcohol, 81 per gallon;
whisky $1,25 to $3.50 per gallon. If
we are to Judge the future by the
past, high prices will not end when
the war is finished.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-12
Undertaking Too Much

whats your objection TO that An
glophobiacT'
I. :.He's too industrious in his ideas"
replied Senator Sorghum. He wants
simultaneously to quarrel with one
country and fight with another"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-12
Enlist

the service of life insurance. There's
no better way to add to the happiness
and commitment of yourself and fami
~ If you incure, it is easier to en-
dure National Life Ins. Co., of VT
(MutuaD. Earle s. Kingsley, General
Agent, Mead Building, Rutland, VT.
Adv.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-12
The Trouble.

Eggs are high"
"You don't have to buy eggs all the
time. There are nourishing cereals.
oatmeals and such.'
II do have to buy eggs. Trouble is
my wife doesn't know how to cook
anything else"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-12

And you can bet the Honeymoon Is
over when hubby shows up at his place
of business wearing suit OF clothes
he thought he had discarded three
years before he married.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-12
II was a Bio Niqht.

"S0me of Jipson's bachelor friends
gave him farewell dinner on the eve
of his marriage"
II presume he'll remember that q
long time
"He remembered 1t for two days at
any rate. His headache lasted that
long,"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-12
Anprehension.

II hope your son is marrying into a
good family" M
That's what I'm afraid Of"
Afraid orr
Eyes, that he's marrying the fam
ily."
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-12
True.

There's one thing i will say fox
our national anthem"
whats that?"
ITS good thing the tune isn't rs
hard 10 remember as the words are"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-12

1t is reported that Australia has the
unprecedented surplus Of 160,0G00o0
bushels of wheat for export, which
should tend to relieve the strain on
our patriotic farmers.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-12
Briuht Idea.

"The circus elephant got loose in the
.tation and started foraging,"
''What die they do?"
Just sent for the baggage master,
and he checked the elephants trunk"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-12

II anyone can really tell what is go,
Ing on in Germany ehis Is the time for
him to speak out. "
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-12

The slacker's idea of the best pro-
lection against shrapnel Is distance
of about 81 miles.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-12

Somehow it's hard to be ms enthusi-
ustic about hoeing potatoes as we were
about planting them. 50
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-12

1t is typicnlly American that the
first call of our boys in France is for
soap and cigarettes.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-12

to be a pretty good one 10 get 1t on
the monograph.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-12

This "rar is certainly leading to a
great deal of boat-rocking of ministries
on the stormy political waters.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-12
seekinn Inflammation.

Frank-Could you learn to love me?
Mazie--l don't know; what is your
particular system of instruction?
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-12

Germanys chief imports are ultima
tums from neutruls that have had
ships sunk by U-boats.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-12
Natural History.

Freddie-lt's always in damp places
where mushrooms grow, isn't it, papa?
Papa-Yes, my boy.
Predicts that the reason they
look like umbrellas, papa.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-12
Rain.

Little drops of water,
Failing with thud,
Take the blowing landscape,
And turn it into mud.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-12
Poetry Of Motion.

Unto the dance we don't allow
Its former lofty place.
A motion to adjourn is now
The highest form of grace.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-12
The PREVAILING Trouble

Mothcr--My dear what is the mat
ter with the horse? Isn't he walking
lame?
Small Boy--I know what's the mat
ter. pop. One of his hind tires has
come off.
The Washington times., 1917-01-23
A DOMESTIC SURVEY

In announcing their award of The
Times prize of $40 to the domestic
longest in the service of one mis-
tress in the District, and other
trophies for length of service with
families, the home economic commit
tee of the District Federation of
Women's Clubs has only made a
good start in helping solve the "ser-
want problem" in Washington.
One thing the committee has
proved is that the problem" may
not be as bad as it seems. More
than 1000 certificates were given to
domestics who had been in one posi-
ton for five years or more. Scores
of women wrote to the committee
that the problem" had no terrors
for them. They intimated that there
was an employer problem" just as
acute as the Servant problem" and
they opined that education was
needed as sorely among employers
as among the domestics if the prob
lem was to be brought any nearer
solution.
The work of the committee is val
liable as a survey. 1t provided data
upon which much constructive work
can be DONE Tomorrow evening a
meeting is to be held at which the
prizes will be given. A hall large
enough to hold the crowd could not
be found in the District if the en-
ployers of the successful contestants
were invited to address a mass meet
ing on how they kept their domes-
tics for thirty, forty, and fifty years.
The Washington times., 1917-01-23

of power" Plainly it must differ in
some occult way from a concert of
powers, which as Mr.. Wilson himself
inferentially if not directly shows
US is the surest way to competition,
jealousy, hostility, and belligerency.
No greater puzzle for the historian
has ever been placed upon the page
of time than this move of Mr.. Will
son, sprung without warning upon a
dismayed people and a disconnected
world. What was the genesis of it ?
Who prompted it?' What is the true
motive? What does Mr.. Wilson ex-
pect to accomplish? Conuidrums
to the ordinary mind without an
answer consistent with honor and
common sensei
The Washington times., 1917-01-23
THE CAPITAL AND CONGRESS

"' Should a bill pass the
two houses giving representation
Ito the DISTRICT, it is a question
with me. whether relieved of re-
sponsibility, Congress would not
lose interest in some degree, al
lowing the Representatives of the
District of Columbia to shoulder
the responsibility heretofore
theirs. Senator Wesley l. Jones
of Washington, speaking before
the Board of TrAde.
How would the citizens of Senator
Jones' own State greet a proposal
to withdraw its representation in
Congress so that all the members of
both houses might take deeper in
terest in the State?
Have any Territories hesitated to
enter into Statehood because it was
feared Congress would be less re-
sponsive to their demands?
How many members of the House
and Senate take any deep interest in
District affairs?
Senator Jones furthermore points
out that the Capital belongs as much
to the citizens of his State as to the
residents of the District. Will the
Capital be Invested in any way of its
national character by treating its in
habitants like other citizens of the
United States?
The Washington times., 1917-01-23
The Sweet Potato.

The sweet Potato.
1t is said that a number OF Ameri-
cans living in the suburbs of London
and their British neighbors will grow
potatoes and other vegetables this
year to supply the things they cannot
buy in the market. They will find po-
tatoes excellent diet, especially sweet
potatoes, which are richer in starch
and still more in sugar than the COM
mon potato, and in some OF the South
ern States have yielded as many as
500 bushels TO the acre. The English
people. especially those who have read
American history, have heard of this
remarkable esculent-ft was the pa
triotic sweet potato served on a plate
of pine bark with which Gen. Francis
Marion entertained a distinguished
British officer who about a hundred
years ago had called on the
swamp Fox to suggest his surrender.
With such a diet there is no reason
why any people who are fighting for
their principles should fail. II is only
when they are interfered with that
they are compelled occasionally to re-
tire before superior numbers, which
brings to mind the story told by a
high officer OF the Government who
was brought up in South Carolina.
"You know" he said, "there are some
persons still living down there, and
/ am not ready to say that / do not
agree with them, who believe that IL
the rest of the South hadn't inter
fered, we'd have whipped this fight"
That's how q sweet potato diet would
make any seIf-respecting man feel.
THE COMMENTATORS.
The Washington times., 1917-01-23
A movie" ACHIEVEMENT

The reasonableness of the Dis
trict Commissioner ruling against
the nude in motion pictures is at
tested by the action of the National
Board of Review in the ban it has
placed upon nudity in the pictures
it henceforth will approve.
The ideals of this board were set
forth not long ago by its officers in
addresses at a meeting in Washing
ton. 1t aims at cooperation, not at
censorship. 1t has no official powers.
Hence its action in barring the nude
in pictures does not preclude exhi-
bition of such pictures if the pro-
ducers make them, and communities
accept them.
More significant still is the boards
action in frowning on the overpro-
duction of sex problem plays. Plays
of this type, many folk believe, are
far worse than the mere display of
nudity, which may be offensive or
inoffensive according to the method
of treating it.
The action of the board, in both
cases, is said to have the approval of
the producers association. If this
be true a bigger thing has been
achieved than could possibly be
brought about by censorship, which
always has obnoxious features. The
National Board of Review seems to
have achieved, in this instance, the
sort of cooperation which Commits
sioner Brownlow has advocated be-
tween the Police Department and ex
hibitors here.
The Washington times., 1917-01-23
McCUMBER ON ExTRAvAdANcE

Senator McCumber Of North Da-
kota is so hopeess a hardshell that
he opposes an embargo upon food
Gin view," as he coldly remarks, "of
the present prices of farm labor and
articles, used on the farm" He also
charges many Americans with prof
legacy and extravaganza, says that
Americans spend annually thirteen
billions of dollars for liquor, tobacco,
automobiles, and other amusements,
and declares with proportionate dis
gust:
This revelry in eXtravagant habits
this unquenchable demand for amuse-
ments, for continuous mental intoxi-
cants, is undermining the sturdiness
of our younger generation. The
American people seem obsessed with
the idea that the main thing in life is
amusement, play, entertainment.
There he goes! A good, clear
headed man and Republican. at the
crown of a useful and honored life;
there he goes, sailing into the present
generation of young people because
they act as though this world was
made primarily as a place for play,
where the regular work of the day,
the days duty and the RESPONSE
bilities of human being to himself
and his fellows in the world are to be
resented as outworn superstitions
of a dead generation and pushed
aside as much as possible. Senator
McCumber says such ideas "seem to
obsess" the American people. What
an ungenerous term! We fear that
this poor old fogy will never be glad
in the new freedom or become learn
ed in the new philosophy of doing
what you like, anyhow, and seeing
how it will turn out
The people in Europe have seen
how things turn out when thorough
ly vicious and dangerous economic
tendencies are allowed loose rein
through the indifference or Hmidity
of any society which has anything to
lose. The calamity which over
whelms Europe remarks the char
acter of the people who pass through
such a furnace. Senator McCumber
may not be wholly right liz his judg-
ment that the sturdy quality of
American character is so undermined
and worm-eaten nowadays as to be
The Washington times., 1917-01-23
MODEL FOR EMPLOYERS

Those old-fashioned puzzles grow
ing out of the involved relationships
created by second marriages, which
make a mans son his own father-in-
law or something like that, are sim
'plicity compared with the situation
in the Washington office of the
American Federation of Labor. A
strike of the local help is threatened.
The employees are members Of the
stenographers', bookkeepers', and
other unions.
Now the federation in its external
capacity is constrained to uphold in
every way the honorable efforts Of
union members to secure shorter
hours and longer pay. >As an en-
ployer it must give some considera-
ton to questions of economy. The
balance is a nice one and calls for
the exercise of the most exquisite
powers of adjustment. A satisfac-
tory settlement will argue the pres
ence in that office of great states
men. --
The heads Of the Federation should
be aware that their behavior in this
crisis is of the highest moment.
They have often complained Of error
in other employers. Now is the time
for them to show how the situation
should be met. All humble minded
employers, eager to know what is
right, will look to Washington for
such illustration of sound practice
as shall be q safe guide in like df-
ficulties elsewhere.
The Washington times., 1917-01-23
SENDING BACK CARS
3. & o. EndeavorIng to Observe
Order Of \. C.. C..

order OF ]. z. z.
Officials OF the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad said yesterday that immed-
late steps would be taken by the
road to carry out the order of the
Interstate Commerce Commission,
compelling roads to return promptly
the equipment OF other roads which
may be in use on its lines. It is ex-
planned that this order is only seek
ing to compel the roads to carry
out their own regulations, which
have been seriously interfered with
by the unusual traffic conditions Of
the past few months.
The Baltimore and Ohio has been
returning q larger percentage Of
equipment to its Western connections
than 1t has been receiving from these
lines. This evidence OF good faith In
trying to solve the traffic problem
of the country has contributed to the
equipment balance against the Balti-
more and Ohio whereby the number
of revenue-earning cars on the COM
pany's lines for some time past has
been less than the total number OF
cars owned by it.
The coal-car Situation Is not re-
garded as promising at present, due
to delays in unloading coal and to
difficulties which lines connecting
with the Baltimore and Ohio have had
in accepting the traffic.
The Washington times., 1917-01-23
STILL FLOURISHING THE CLUB

Every little while the railroad
brotherhoods flourish the club which
they found so effective in getting, on
the eve of election, the eight-hour
law they thought then they wanted
but find now they didn't. But the
fiourishes grow weaker. Now it is
to be series of strikes, not nation
wide strike, with which they will
punish the country if the Supreme
Court and Congress fail to do their
bidding. Fortunately, there is time
for this program also to be recon-
The Washington times., 1917-01-23
JOHNSON FUNERAL.

The funeral OF Joseph E. johnson.
a resident OF Washington for over
forty years. who died at his resi-
dence, s43 Florida avenue northwest.
Sunday. were held this morning at his
home, followed by requiem mass at
st. Paurs Church. Interment was in
Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Mr.. Johnson
was formerly in the fish-packing
business in Virginia with headquar-
tiers in Washington. He was sixty
one years old. He was a member Of
Washington Lodge. No. Is. B. o. p. L.
He Is survived by his wife.
The Washington times., 1917-01-23
WHATS ON PROGRAM
Many Interesting Events Of Import
anee Are Scheduled.
To-day,

Rehearsal, The Bohemian Girl. {" Community
Singing Society. Thomson School, Twelfth
and L streets northwest, p m
Meeting. Gaelic Society Of Warrington. HEX
man Studio. $40 New York avenue north
Meeting. ohsve sholorn Bfblican club. vestry
rooms, Ohavs Sholom Temple, 100 p. m
Lecture The Law OF Vibration or What's
In = Name?' Miss Louise Cults Powell.
Hotel Portland, p. m.
Dinner TO President Ernest n Hopkfns Of
Dartmouth College. BY Dartmouth Alumni
Association OF Washington, Raleigh. D. m
Meeting. main COMMITTEES q the Federation Of
Citizens Associations on inaugural exhibit
in headquarters. 7:3o p. m
Meeting. general COMMITTEES on preparation for
the anniversary Of the sinking Of the battle
ship Maine, Ebbitt, .. m.
Smoker senior class OF Georgetown Unfvsr-
sity Law School. Raleigh. .. m.
Address, Home Economics" ConRre4snan
Addison T. Smith. before District Of CoIum-
bia Federation OF Women's Clubs, Ebbitt.
ProTrsn for the blind, Mrs. Richie Mecr.u,
and Miss Casselman. Library OF Congress,
Meeting, craftsmanship Club Of washin~ton.
Chamber Of Commerce rooms. 8 p m.
Meeting, North Capitol and lexington Citi-
zens' Association: Matthew q. Emery
Ball for benent Of Washington ward IN French
military hospital. old Masonic Temple, .
Meeting, committee on municipal leei,lat,on
Chamber Of Commerce. Chamber Of Com.
nerce rooms. $50 .. m.
Dinner. Masonic Veteran Association, Ebbitt.
D. m.
initiation and entertainment, washtnrton
Council, No. ga, Knights of Columbus. x.
of c. Hall $50 p. m.
Address Mrs Matilda Dunbar, Moth.r Of
Paul Laurence Dunbar. the Poet" befora
Bethel Literary Society, Lincoln Tsrnple
Congregational Church, Eleventh and r
streets northwest. p. m
No. l. e. A: Aeans. ~.
H. n. NJ; Takoma. No. - -'O-
Royal Arch-Mt. Horsb. No q; Potomac M
g.
knights Templar-De Molay, No. 4.
Scottish Rite-Robert de Bruce Couneu
Eastern Star-Bethlehsm, No. I; Friend.n,r
No. II.
Odd Fellows-Amity, No. q; washinxto, No
6; Golden Rule, No. Il.
D. Stuart. No. 7. de~r..
Red Men-Idsho, No IS: Waneta No
knights Of Pythias-websJer No. I: E-..l-
sior. No. IA: Capital, No. "a; Myrtle, No. =
The Washington times., 1917-01-23
EGG PRICES DECLINING
Believed Cost Of Fresh Variety Will
Fall to IS Cents.

There will be a continual decline in
the price OF eggs until they cost about
IS cents a dozen. dealers stated this
morning.
The best fresh eggs were selling at
from 40 to 50 cents a dozen this MORN
ing. Eggs. lime packed or cold storage.
may be procured as low at g cents a
dozen.
The few pleasant days that Washing
ton and vicinity experienced recently
had more to do with cutting the price
of the commodity than any other factor.
IL is believed.