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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-03
RUSSIA WILL
NOT DESERT
HER ALLIES
Secretary Lansing Sure of
His Position
ADDITIONAL LOAN MADE
kerensky Government TO Be Given
$s1,ooo,ooo BY United States to
Help Russia Recuperate.
LOAN MADE

Washington, Nov 2.-Premier
Kerensky's warning that Russia s
allies will have to bear her burden Of
the conflict while the war-weary Ma
| tion regains its strength, exhausted
| In three years of fighting enemies
without and within, has aroused new
expressions of confidence in Russia s
future and assurances OF support
from the United Government and the
representatives Of all the Allies.
The Russian embassy made the
Premier's statement of Russias posi-
tion the occasion to reiterate that she
has no intention of quitting the war
and the State Department in an au-
thorized announcement declared that
in no way could the Premier's state
ment nor any Of its official advices be
construed to mean that Russia seeks
seperate peace.
Our own advices," Secretary Ian
sing said, SHOW that the Provisional
Government In Petrograd is attacking
with great energy the problems con
fronting 1t. Reports received from
Petrograd by mail and telegraph
show that Premier Kerensky and his
Government, far from yielding to dis
couragement, are still animated by
strong determination to organize ali
Russia's resources in whole-hearted
resistance and carry the war through
to a victorious completion At the
same time this Government, like
those OF the Allies, is rendering all
possible assistance
Russia is not out of the war, an6
has no intention of quitting" salt
the Embassy statement. mo WORD
in Kerensky's interview gives war
rant for any assertion of that kind
AS matter Of fact the Premier
stated the exact opposite.
"A cable received lately and which
is given out to the press today, shows
the real military conditions ON the
Russian front. The best answer tc
the malicious assertion that Russia
is out Of the war will be the fact Civ
en- by this cable that we are holding
at the present time on our front 147
divisions Of enemy troops"
AS another mark Of confidence in
the Russian Government the treasury
today authorized the immediate ad
vance of 31,700000 out of the credits
of $325.000,000 already authorized
The total paid the Provisional Govern
ment is 190,900,000.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-03
NO PLACES FOR OFFICERS
Many Of PIattsburg Men viii Be SEN
Back to Their Homes.


Washington, Nov. 3.-Although fully
qualified for commissions, several
thousand OF the men In training at the
second series of officers training
camps will be compelled to return to
their homes when camps are closed
this month, because of lack OF vacan-
cies in the present military forces o.
indicated that 1t was possible that ap
proximately half of the $4,000 men al
the camps would be placed on the re
serve list, not because the men are in
sufficiently trained but because there
are no places open for them.
Officials are postponing a formal
announcement knowing 1t will be
followed by flood Of complaints. One
official. however, described the condi-
tons, his statement making 1t evident
that not more than four thousand or
five thousand of the men will be as
signed to the National army, National
Guard and regular army. An attempt
will be made to divert some of the men
to the signal corps and to the avia-
tlcu btIfICo. uo oi6udi toiPo Sdh
handle from two to three thousand
men. Four thousand of the embryo
officers can enter the aviation service
as junior aviators II they care to do
SO.
1t is expected by officials that the
department will be criticized. 1t is
probable that the department will be
charged with failing again to meet
and gauge conditions properly. The
officials have made no explanation yet
TO say the least, it is unfortunate
These men have worked night and
day for commissions and the most
have done exceptionally we'll. 1t will
be natural for them to feel disgrunt
led.
Not only will enthusiasm be damp
ened by the failure Of the department,
but the mems usefulness as officers
will be impaired. With few weeks
out of training men go stale. and
months of work are required to gel
back efficiency. The failure OF the
department also means a financial los
to the men. While at camp they have
been receiving 800 a month, witt
which many have supported depend
ents. Most OF the men gave up their
civilian positions when they went
to the camps. Now that they must re
turn to their homes they will have tt
find new employment.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-03
THANKSGIVING DAY
Talk OF Making II More Fast Than
Feast

For many years it has been mat
ter of regret that Thanksgiving day,
instead of being religious festival,
suited to the harvest season, was de
teriorating into an excuse for over
eating. The original significance of
the day had been overlaid with foot
ball games to such an extent that
the Pilgrim fathers would have had
hard work to recognize 1t.
This year Thanksgiving day will
be a solemn time. We have been
asked to make II day OF fasting
rather than day of feasting. With
many of us this will be making q
virtue OF necessity; but few thought.
ful people will feel disposed to make
the day one of hilarity. This is a
grim and gray time, like the month
in which Thanksgiving day occurs
Being at war is drain on the ma
tion's spiritual forces, and such an
anniversary Is time to renew those
forces from which peoples moral
strength Is drawn.
This will be the fourth Thanksgiv.
ing day since the war started. For
the previous three years it has been
matter OF Thanksgiving that the
con1agration had not spread to our
shores. Now the day must mean a
renewing OF fortitude to meet what
must be met and bear what must be
borne.--Boston Globe.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-03
Village of Bennington
Office OF the Clerk
and Trustees
Bennington, Vermont
Notice to the
Public

BY direction of the Village Trust
sss, notice >is hereby given that from
ana after November 1st., 1917, the
provisions Of No. 13o of the Public
Acts Of 1917 entitled. An Act Relat
ing to Vehicles on Wheels carrying
Lights at Night on Public Highways
will be strictIy enforced within the
limits of the Village of Bennington.
Said Act provides in part as fol
lows:
Sec. 4. A person who violates the
provisions of this Act shall be nned
not more than Five Dollars.
All Police officers are hereby di
rected to arrest. at sight all persons
violating the provisions of the afore
said Act.
BY order Of the Board of Trustees
A. w. Braisted,
Village President.
Attest:
w. p Hogan,
Village Clerk.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-03
FOOD PLEDGE
CAMPAIGN IS
NEAR ITS END.
Canvassers Have Not Yet
Finished Work
EXPECT 1000 IN TOWN
Maximum Quota For County 10 5000
But Estimate is Probably Too
High.

The pledge card campaign drive is
supposed to end tonight. but in Ben
nington the canvassers will not get
their work completed and will keep
ct it until every family is reached.
The minimum quota of 1900 is ex-
pected to be reached tonight, but the
maximum quota is 1000 and there are
certainly that number Of women in
Bennington who have some part in
household work.
The committee wants those who
have not signed to do SO at once and
to put up their window cards so that
other canvassers will not call. The
maximum quota for this county is
5000 which is probably too large.
Up to last night there had been 972
cards signed in Bennington. 1863 in
North Bennington and 80 at Old Ben
nington. The report of the county
should be 67 per cent OF the county
minimum.
The local canrassers have had a
few refusals. but not many and most
of these merely had to have the need
explained to them. Any woman,
who has been missed, can get card
by telephoning to Mrs. George NJ.
Hawks, 406-M, or to Mrs. E. B. HUI
ing, 551-Mr
Some may say what little we eat
doesn't matter" which is very true,
but look at these figures sent out by
the government
If we can secure allegiance to this
national service in our 20,00O,000
kitchens, our 2O,000,0o0 breakfast,
lunch and dinner. tables: If we can
multiply an ounce OF sugar or fats or
what not per day by 10OO00,0OO peo-
pie, we have saved 130,O00,00O pounds
in G month
If we save pound Of white -four
per week, by substituting rye and
corn meal, we save 125,000,000 BUSH
els Of wheat per annum.
1T is this multiplication of minute
quantities-tea spoons not shovels
full-slices, scraps by 100,0O0,00O
and S65 days that will save the
world. Is there any one in this land
who cannot or will net deny himself
CT herself something? Who cannot
save some waste? Is not your right
to life and freedom worth this
service.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-03
The knitters.

They knit in the sun. they knit in the
rain,
The knit on the trolley, they knit or
the train,
They knit on the beach in a bathing
suit,
With look intent and lips that are
mute;
They knit at the table, they knit in
bed.
They knit when they're dying, they
knit when thy'ref dead.
They cit and they knit and they knit
and they sit.
And tney knit and knit and knit and
knit,
Till you'd think their nerves would
give them fit,
But they don't seem to mind it, not q
bit!
rhey just keep on and knit and knit,
And wherever you go, on this earth
below,
You can't escape 1t, it's the same old
show
They knit while they watch the kettle
boil,
They knit while the beans come up
from the soil;
From mansion to hovel. wherever
you roam,
They sit and they knit till the cows
come home.
The needles ply and the needles fly,
And when you ask the reason why,
Red Cross"-they briefly then reply,
AS over their work they knit and
pore,
And when they are done they-knit
some more.
1t may be sweater or cholera band,
Or some other thing that comes to
their hand,
A helmet or scarf, or Just plain
nit,
That they deftly fashion and form
and knit.
But back of the scarf, as the needles
ply, s en
They seem to see, with deeper eye,
A standard against the clear, blue
sky, is
A flag that is proudly floating there,
And beneath, a country broad and
fair.
With the breath OF freedom in the
air;
A country so good to lad in France,
In trench or plane or ambulance.
AS he wears the helmet or sweater or
nit,
That he Is willing to die for it,
And that is the reason they knit and
knit,
And whatever the fashion or form
may be,
Through the web and the woof, if
you look, you will see
{ The golden thread of loyalty
To the country they love, the land of
the free!
To the boys at the fore In khaki or
blue,
No! 'tis not the matter of helmet or
nit.
And far be it the foil or satire or wit,
AS they patiently sit and knit and
knit
'Tis enough to know they are "doing
their bit"
And the question is this--ARE YOU?
J. w. Harper,
Hartford, August, 1917.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-03
EDWARD BUSHNELL DEAD
Native Of Bennington and Veteran Of
the Civil War.

Edward Bushnell, native of Ben.
nington and an old time printer, died
Friday night at the home of his son,
Jaoon in Brattleboro where he has
lived for more thar half a century.
He was 76 years old.
Mr.. Bushnell learned the printers
trale in Bennington and worked for
the late Charles A. Pierce who died in
Waltham year or two ago. His
father, Jason Bushnell was also a
printer and was associated with VIII
liam c. Haswell on the old Vermont
Gazette. After Mr.. Bushnell went to
Brattleboro he worked in the ofiice
of the Household, published by
George C. Crowell, and which was
one of the leading magazines of the
United States 40 years ago. Mr.
Bushnell became foreman. of the Of
fee and held the position for many
years.
Beside the son with whom he resid-
ed he Is survived by another son,
Alfred, also of Brattleboro and a
daughter, Mrs. Harry Freeman of
Chicopee Falls. Mass. Mrs. Bushnell
died in Brattleboro two years ago.
He is also q brother-in-law of Mrs.
A. w. Haff, Mrs. l.. l.. Armstrong and
Miss Mary Welch OF Bennington. The
funeral services will be held from the
house, 9S Elliot street, Brattieboro,
Monday afternoon.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-03
6ERMANSST|R
SOUTH BRAZIL
INTO REVOLT
Strike There Has Tied Up
Railroads
ARMY IS TO ACT
In the Three Southern Provinces Of
ARMY IS TO ACT
In the Three Southern Provinces Of
Brazil Business 10 Largely In
Hands Of Germans.

Buenos Aires, Nov. ga Germai
uprising is in progress in southern Br;
zil. completely paralyzing railwa.
traflc, according to private reports
received in railway circles here. Th'
strikes started In this district ART
Brazil. 1t is reported that only the
said to be spreading to other parts o.
strictest military measures are max
ing the movement of any trains pos
sible.
The dispatches continue to report
''the severest military measure
against Germans" in southern Brazil
where there are large German colon
les. Details as to these measures
and general conditions are withheld
by the censorship.
1t is reported that all Germans
have been dismissed from the GOV
ernment service.
Washington, Nov. 2.--Washington
officials have been aware that Ger
man uprising in Southern Brazil was
being planned by Count Luxburg. for
mer German Minister to Argentina
md other German agents.
Anti.German feeling is now run
ming at its highest crest in Brazil and
there is no doubt here that the Brazil
ian Government will adopt the sever
est military measures against the
members OF German rife clubs in
the States OF Rio Grande. do Sui and
Santa Catfiarina in the southeastern
panhandle OF Brazil, where the upris-
Ing Is in pr r)gress
The southern States of Brazil,
where the Germans prevail, are Rio
Grande do Sui, Parana, and Santa
Catharina. They lie between Para
quay, Argentina, and Uruguay. and
the Atlantic Ocean. or Rio Grande
do Sul's population of 1,6S2,736, the
Germans number 100000; of Parana's
EB4,sS4. they number 10000; OF San.
Ia GATHERINGS total of 463.997, they
number $4,000
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-03
SOLID ALCOHOL IN SURGERY
II is Used at the Front as a sterIlIz
Ing Agent.


DR.. T. Nogier describes in the
Presse Medicale the method of pre-
pairing solidified alcohol, and tells of
It's uses in war surgery. This sum
mary appears in the New York Medi-
cal Journal:
"T. Nogier describes solid alcohol
as a special form of soap containing
considerable alcohol, liquid at so de
grees centigrade, but constituting a
pastelike solid at ordinary tempera.
ture. Hitherto used largely In the
trenches as fuel, the product is al
so an efficient and rapid cleanser of
the surgeons hands and instruments
and of the operative field. Wnen a
piece the size of a walnut is placed in
the palm of the hand and few drops
OF water added fatty substances are
quickly dissolved off, even from
hands soiled with grease, and the
well-known ascepticizing effect OF al
cohol is obtained. Soiled instru.
ments are placed in a dish, few
pieces OF the alcohol and a little
water added and the Instruments rub
bed with the hand or brush, then
rinsed, and boiled.
For the operative field Nogier
. deems the use of the alcohol better
than any other procedure. Upon
light rubbing with the hand II
promptly whitens and escepticizes
the most soiled integument. 1t is
neither irritating nor caustic like
iodine.
I'm preparing the product, Nogier
places 500 cubic centimeters of dena
tured alcohol In one-litre bottle
adds 15O grams of Marseilles soap
finely scraped and as dry as possible
and then twelve grams Of shellac in
scale form. After stirring the mix
ture the bottle is heated on a water
bath and moved about to help solu-
ton of the shellac in the alcohol, a
dark brown liquid resulting. The
fluid is then merely poured into tins,
which are at once carefully closed.
Four or five drops of oil of lavender
cinnamon, or geranium may be added
before the fiuid is poured out, these
oils reinforce the antiseptic action of
the product, but are of no Importance
in war surgery"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-03
sHELLeo A SINGING CANARY
British Had to Destroy TeIltaIe Bird
Escaped From sappers.

Washington, Nov. 3.-How one
little canary bird caused consterna
tion among the entire division oi
British troops and had to be killed
with artillery is told by DR.. Robert
Davis, recently arrived in the United
States to lecture at the officers train
ing camps on activities Of the Red
Cross in Europe.
For more than month on a north.
ern sector of the line the British had
been secretly mining beneath the
German trenches" said DIR. Davis.
THE work was almost complete. Dur
ing the operations several canary
birds were, as usual, kept in the ex-
cavation to warn the workers of the
presence of fire damp. which is fatal
to the birds. One little songster,
however, escaped from its job, few
into the middle of No Mans Land,
and, alighting on bush, began to
sing.
CONSERVATION reigned in the Brit
ish lines. If the bird should be dis
covered by the Germans, the work of
weeks would go for naught. as the
enemy could easily interpret the
meaning of its presence and prepare
to combat the sapping operations
The infantry was Immediately order
ed to open fire ON the canary to des
troy it, But 1t seemed to bear
charmed life Even the sharp-shoot
ers failed to bring 1t down, as 1t fit
ted from twig to twig. Finally the
artillery had to be called on. A
trench gun with well-timed shell
blew the bird and the bush and the
song into nothingness.'
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-03
otate Library
MoN'T.PELlsp'
RoLAr. llNEux DEAD
Convicted and Acquitted Of Murder.
ing Kate Adams.

New York, Nov. 2.-Roland B
Molineux, fifty-four years Old, defend
ant in the celebrated Kate Adams
case, died of paresis in the Kings
County State hospital today. He had
been there since November, 1918, fol
lowing q mental breakdown owing to
overwork in writing a play. which
David Belasco produced"
Molineux was charged with the
death Of Mrs. Adams, who died OF
syanide Of mercury poisoning, De-
cember 2S. 1898. She drank the drug
from bromo seltzer bottle, which it
was alleged Molineux had meant for
Harry Cornish. a fellow member OF
the Knickerbocker Athletic club.
The trial was sensational and Moli-
neux was convicted Of murder In the
first degree He passed two years in
the death house at Sing Sing before a
new trial was granted. Molineux was
then acquitted.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-03
Why the Weathsr Bureau9

Why the weather bureau? THIS
question Is likely to be asked, in more
or less querulous tones, whenever the
local weather prediction fails, as 1t
often does, says the Popular Science
Monthly. The inquirer overlooks the
fact that the weather bureau has much
more important things to foretell than
ordinary changes of weather. 1t pre-
diets with certainty great windstorms,
destructive floods, severe freezes and
other atmospheric visitations that en-
danger life and property on a large
scale and collects climatic statistics for
scientific agriculture.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-03

SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE
Letter from charIes r. H. crathern
Jr, In French Canton Service

Jr., In French Canton Service
Dear folks at home:--I have more
or less news to tell you now as a good
deal has happened in the last few
days.
The first thing Of any important
was the Citation OF our section-the
first canton section to be cited. All
the three sections here at camp were
called together the other day and lined
UP forming three sides OF hollow
square, our section facing the Captain
and officers who formed the fourth
side. The captain then read us let
ter which he had received as follows;
Armees du nord ct du nord est eliot
Major General.
Direction des services automobile,
"The Chef d'Escadron, directeur des
services aux armees, extends his con-
gratulations to the members OF the
third peloton (pelotonc) OF the sec
tion groupe Americaine under the
direction Of the Chef de Peloton, H.
Il. Cox for the sang-froid and cour-
age displayed on the night of July 23rd
1917 during the process OF unload
ing shells and ammumitions at de-
pot which was subjected to violent
bombardment"
(Signed) Doumeinc
OF course our section Is proud to
be the first American section men,
toned In orders etc.
That took place on California
Plateau and while the drive
along the "Chemis de Dame"
was going on 1t was not half
so bad as that letter seems to
put 1t for II they called that violent
would like to know Just what they
call 1t along the front line.
The other exciting bit Of news is
that OF a camion smash up In which
three cars took part, mine coming out
the worst for damages. No one hurt
In the slightest so don't get excited
The first ram OF our section had
delivered their shells at the Battery
Depot and was returning with empty
shell boxes. My car (No. 10) and No.
IA were In that ram.
Car No was the leading car in the
second ram which was on It's way to
the same depot to unload It's shells
passing, his rear hub hit the front
hub of No. 3. This turned the wheels
of No. 3 and headed 1t strait for my
car which was about twenty yards
behind. Neither car could stop so we
crashed.
In trying 10 avoid collision turn
ed for the ditch side Of the road and
just as was going into the gutter the
car hit me and turned my wheels back
again. No car was badly damaged
and my car had both front springs
broken and the body of the car ripped
entirely loose of the front axle. the
mediator was smashed the motor
knocked three inches out of place and
the fly wheel, crank case and water
pump so seriously battered that the
mechanics at the repair shop said
they couldn't do a thing with It,
guess ! was sorry to have II hap
pen for 1t was good car. and after
three months it was running fine and
three months 1t was running fine and
then to have 1t smashed-"C'est la
guerre".
guess I'll get rest now with only
an occasional trip, until, get new
car. I should worry although hate to
wait around but 1t won't be so bad
now as 1t would have been at first
as we have all learned patience to the
greatest degree. In about week my
permission comes and get ten days
off.
Ito be eontinuedl
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-03
Work.

There Is nothing but what's bearable,
as long as a man can work. The nature
of things don't change, though 1t seems
as IL ones life was nothing but change.
That the square of four is sixteen, and
YOU must lengthen your lever in pro-
portion to your weight, Is as true
when mans miserable as when he's
happy. and the best of working is, 1t
gives you a good grlp-hold of things
outside your own lot.---George Eliot.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-03
Plants Are PROLIFIC.

II all the seeds Of any one sort OF
plant were allowed to grow they would
soon cover the earth to the exclusion
Of all else. A single orchid plant pro-
duced more than 100000 seeds in
season and many common plants, as
the foxglove, very nearly equal this re-
mnrknble record.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-03
Flowers,

Flowers are perhaps the most effec-
tive of the many little Finishing
touches" necessary to an attractive
home. There are thousands of persons
with beautiful houses costly furnish
Ings, perhaps, artlstlcally and skillfully
arranged by the hands of clever dec
orator, but 1t takes the little finishing
touches, the seemingly unlmportant
tiny things done by the woman who
loves and exists for her home and ex-
presses her soul in her surroundings
10 make the house lovable.--Exchange.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-03
SOUTH sHAFTsHURy

The Lend-a-Hand society will meet
next Monday evening at the home Of
Mrs. J. d. Whittier.
Tomorrow is Go to Sunday School
Day. There are classes for all ages
and everyone is welcome at the
Methodist church.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-03
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

TO RENT-One furnished and one
unfurnished room. Electric lights
and bath. Apply at 119 Dewey st.
34t6s
TO RENT-One large and one
small steamed room. Tel. 102-M.
35t6"
TO RENT-Tenement. Inquire of
Mrs. B. G, Slade, Tel. 169-M. 35tf.