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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-15

There Is a general disposition of ela- ton and keen satisfaction among these high ,fp in denomiuational life of the Baptists of Alabama over the prospect of a full attendance and successful session of the Alabama Baptist state convention. which was thought, at one time might not meet until the regular convention dates in November, 1s19 but which so happily adjusted by commit teo recently called together for that pur- pose and the date of meeting fixed for January 7-e, 1919
 It Is understood that the convention and Howard college alike deeply regret that the sessions of the convention could not be held at the usual time as was announced last year at the conven- tion held at Sylacauga, Ala. and so earnestly anticipated by the faculty and student body Of the college. When it became known that the convention could not meet as announced there was preva- lent apprehension lest the business of the convention for the coming year should be seriously interfered with Many of the denominational leaders of the state had already begun to counsel with SdGu OlileF III OfQei' to overcome lne prOS- pective disaster which confronted the denominational hope for Increased eff ciency for the new year. It was urged by those who felt the responsibility of carrying forward the enlarged undertak- ings for the denomination that the emergency would be met but there was some anxiety how it would be done Fortunately. however since all the diff faculties seem to have been overcome, and dates definitely fixed. satisfaction is per- meating the body of the Baptist hosts statewide.
 NO TIME TO BE LOST
 It is expected now that no time will be lost in adjusting everything to the new convention dates and that the at tendance upon the convention may ex- ceed what was first thought probable when the January dates were being dis cussed by those responsible for arrang- ing dates for the meeting.
 It is believed that there will in all probability be a large number of promi- nent visitors and honored leaders in at- tendance at the convention from distant states. We are informed that already tha shadows of foreboding are vanishing, and the Baptists are making ready to bt on time at the First Baptist church oA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-15
HEALTH IN CAMPS
 STILL IMPROVING

Washington December 14-Health con- ditions in army camps in the United States continued to improve during the week ended December g. a report to the surgeon general of the army today said. Both the noneffective and death rates were decidedly lower than for the pre- ceding week. Influenza continues to pre- vail at practically all stations, but the report said the disease is less yirulent and less frequently complicated by pneu- monia than during the earlier weeks of the epidemic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-15
WOMEN SPEAKERS
 AT LOCAL THEATRES
Woman's Division of Four-Minute
 Men to Discuss Red Cross Campaign

The following assignments have been made by Mrs. Tom Mccarthy Brown, city chairman of the woman's division of the four minute men for tomorrow, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons at the various theatres: Bijou, Miss Efin- abeth Dickinson; Lyric, Mrs. R. C. Wood son; Alcazar, Mrs. J. F. Carle; Odeon One, Miss Louise w. Putnam; Odeon Two, Miss Mary Parke London; Colo nial, Mrs. Charles Westerlund Strand, Mrs. George Houston Davis; Rialto. Mrs. Emmett ONeal; Princess, Mrs. Oscar Reinhart; Jefferson, December 21, Miss Evalina Wilkerson; Jefferson, December IS, Mrs George Houston Davis
 The speakers will discuss the Red Cross Christmas roll call campaign
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-15

William A. Davis; 4 report on Baptist hospital. by w. P. Hines; 4:i5. adjourn for Ministerial Benefit society. Thursday. evening session: 7:s0, devo- tional exercises. by C. c. Davison 7;45 report on memorials, by John F. Cable; 8 report on B. Y. P. U., by Paul Dix; g, miscellaneous business and final ad- sournment.
 IT. II. EIBBS,
 w. P. WILKS.
 M. NJ. WOOD, Committee
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-15

Equal pay for equal work for both sexes'' This will be the slogan of the IS unions connected with the building trades league in Toronto, Canada.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-13
TRAeEoY oF LIE oREAr wAR
Sufferers in Near East in Great Need
Of Relief.

For more than three years Ameri-
can philanthropy has been a large
factor in keeping alive Armenian,
Syrian, Greek and other exiles and
refugees of Western Asia.
On two former occasions ] have ap-
pealed to the American people III be-
half of these homeless sufferers,
whom the vicissitudes of war and
massacre had brought 10 the eztrem-
est need.
The response has been most gen
erous, but now the period of rehab-
ilitation is at hand. Vastly larger
sums will be required to restore these
once prosperous. but now impoyerish-
ed, refugees to their former homes
than were required merely to sustain
life in their desert exile.
II is estimated that about 1000. 600
Armenian. Syrian, Greek and other
war sufferers in the Near East will re-
quire outside help to sustain them
through the winter Many of them
are now hundreds of miles from their
homeland. The vast majority of them
are helpless women and children. in
cludinG 100000 orphans.
The American Committee for Re.
lief in the Near East is appealing for
minimum of S30,000000 to be sub
scribed January 1919, 1919, with
which to meet the most urgent needs
Of these people.
/, therefore, again call upon the peo-
pie of the United States to make
even more generous contributions
than they have made heretofore 20
sustain through the winter months
those. who, through no fault of their
own, have been left in starving,
shelterless condition. and to help re-
establish these ancient and sorely op,
pressed people in their former homes
on Il selfsupporting basis.
(Signcd) Woodrow Wilson
The White House,
20 November, 1918.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-13
AME ERICAN NAVY
TOBE SECOND To
NONE IN WORLD
Admiral Badger Says This
Should Be Attained by 1925
NAvIEs GUARD NATIONS
they Must Be Principal Support of
League Of Nations-U. S. Must Fur
nish Large Share Police Work.

Washington, Dec. 12-Neither the
end of nosunues nor proposals for a
league OF nations has altered the poll
cy of the general board of the navy in
regard to making the American navy
second to none in the world Rear
Admiral Charles j. Badger, chairman
of the executive committee of the
board, today told the House naval af-
fairs committee that the navy Should
be equal to that Of any other nation
by 1925 and urged that sufficient ap-
preparations to make this possible be
made by Congress.
'The general board believes that
under the present world conditions
and the conditions likely to obtain in
the future" Admiral Badger said.
the United States navy should stead.
lily continue to- increase. Ultimately Il
should be equal to the most powerful
maintained by any other nation of
the world Year by year development
should BE made as consistent with the
facilities Of the country, but the limit
above defined should be attained not
later than 1925
"Nayies must be the principal sup
port Of league Of nations. and the
United States from its wealth infu-
ence and power will be called upon to
contribute large share OF the inter.
national police force TO render such a
league effective
The duty OF the navy in the future
the admiral said, will be not only to
guard the country against invasion
but to protect as we'll the great mer
chant marine now being built.
Sea power will always remain a
factor OF vast Importance in inter
national relations. Admiral Badger
declared The great naval lesson OF
the war has been that the milton Dos
sessing the most powerful navy was
able in few weeks to drive the Ger
man merchant flag from the seas and
to keep her own trade ioutes and vet
when the war was commenced. Ger
many possessed the second best navy
in the world 1t proved to be soi
good enough The blockade which
she was not able to break was the
greatest contributing cause OF her vi
innate collapse
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-13
IN
MONTREAL AFT TER
GENERAL STRIKE
Police. Firemen and Other City
Employees Quit
$4,000 DAMAGE is DONE
Fire Stations Have Been Wrecked
Citizens Robbed, and Stores Looted;
Law Abiding Citizens Helpless.

Montreal, Dec. 12-More than loo
men of the four organized city sery'
ices struck today for higher wages.
The official estimate by j. X. Decary,
chairman Of the city commission of
the number out was Police, S44; fire
men, $50; garbage incarceration depart
ment, $50; engineers and others en-
ployed at the low level pumping sta
tion Of the waterworks, 16.
With no regularly constituted force
TO prevent them, lawless elements did
much material damage in various
parts of the city tonight. In St Henri
fire captain was badly beaten. A
gang of youngsters wrecked the fire
station at Chaboillez Square, near the
Grand Trunk station, broke up sal
wage trucks and apparatus with axes
and threw out of windows bedding
and furniture which were taken home
by members of the crowd Damage
here is estimated at close to $4,000.
Another gang raided fire headquart-
ers, fought the private detectives on
duty and scattered the volunteer fire
men.
Pickpockets are active on street
cars. A Chinese laundryman was held
up and robbed in his shop in the far
north end of the city A gang in
vaded moving picture theatre in
Hochelaga and assumed so threaten.
ing an attitude that the proprietor
fed. leaving the theater to them.
Meanwhile attempts are being made
by citizens bodies to safeguard the
city as far as possible. The board OF
trade, Canadian Manufacturers asso
citation chamber of commerce and Ga.
madam club are forming or urging the
formation Of volunteer forces 10 cope
with the situation 1t Is stated that
upwards Of 100 Young athletes of the
Montreal Athletic association are be
ing armed with batons and revolyers
and provided with apthori'" by direc
tors Of Public Safety Trc.. ~ to han
die the mob
Reports came to Director of Public
Safety Tremblay that all the volun
leer Sremen placeu III the stations
early in the afternoon had been driy
EN- ou' Ninety fire alarms were
turned in up to early evening, bu
most of them were false
Owing to the absence of traffic DO
licemen, street traffic was greatly
slowed up,
Fire stations have been wrecked
citizens robbed and stores looted. Sa
looms and disorderly resorts are wild,
open. Law abiding citizens are help
less to prevent the depredations o
gangs of hoodlums.
Mayor Martin has been in confer
ence all night with representatives o
the policemen and firemen in an et
fort to reach a settlement. The mel
are said to have agreed to accept
yearly wage of $1,000, 81 800 and 81
400, according to length of service
They also want the double shift sys
TEN. The trades and labor council /
said to have offered to act as mediat
ing body between the city and tn
strikers.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-13
$4,000 SAVED
IN CHRISTMAS
CLUBS IN TOWN
War Necessities Made Slight
Reduction
MONEY PUT INTO BONDS
Bennington People Of Moderate Means
Are Putting Away Half Million
in Savings.
MONEY PUT INTO BONDS

The banks in Bennington are this
week sending out the checks to Christ
mas club subscribers. The total
amount of these checks is not so large
as was the case year ago. The re-
markable feature is that the combined
sum is as large as it is, in the vicini
ty of $4,000 With the numerous war
necessities calling for the purchase OF
securities and actual contributions for
relief purposes, it has been expected
that the clubs would not be so large
as year ago. The difference, how
ever, between the two totals is small
er than had been expected.
During the entire year the banks
have urged all their patrons, includ
ing the subscribers Of the Christmas
clubs, to invest their savings in the
war securities, the liberty bonds and
the war savings stamps. According to
rough estimates furnished by the
banks Bennington people who have
made their purchases of bonds on the
weekly instalment plan today either
own or are in the process Of paying
for bonds to the amount of $l50000.
Naturally the subscribers to the
Christmas clubs and the purchasers
of $50 and s100 liberty bonds are wage
earners. The subscribers 70 the first
two issues Of the bends have already
paid for the securities. They are
now paying for the third and fourth.
Bennington has purchased around
100000 in war savings and thrift
stamps When all payments shall
have been completed it will mean that
these residents, many of them OF
small means, are saving close to half
million OF dollars during lapse OF
about two years.
The Christmas club idea, which has
been in existence but few years. has
proved the greatest incentive to
money saving during the present gen.
Grafton, excepting of course the op-
portunity afforded in the purchase of
war securities. 1t is expected that
there will be another issue of bonds
during the present year but this saw
ing feature will eventually disappear.
The banks, however, will continue the
Christmas cubs and next December
the total of the checks distributed
should be the largest in the history OF
the community.
The saving habit doesn't stick quite
so closely as some bad habits but the
experience of the three banks in Ben
ningtOn has proved that It sticks. The
call for bonds has demonstrated that
many people who did not believe that
they had any money for permanent In
vestment we're wrong. They have
been convinced against their own
fixed belief Having gone to the
school of experience and learned this
excellent lesson there is every reason
to believe that they will not forget
what they have learned There is a
constant demand for workers in all
lines of industry at better wages than
have prevailed for years The time to
save is when money is coming in and
the Christmas club affords the best
known opportunity yet devised for
persons who are dependent upon their
weekly earnings. M
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-13
MACHINE HAS FLOWN
FROM ENGLAND TO INDIA
Major Gen. saimond and Capt Ross
Smith Have Arrived After 2.54s
Mile Flight.

London, Dec. 12s-Maior Gen. Sal
mond, commanding the Royal Air
Forces in the Middle East, accompan-
led by Captain Ross Smith, has ar.
rived az Karachi, on the Baluchistan
border, and is in conference with the
Government Of India regarding the es.
adjustment OF an aerial service to
India
These agiators have just completed
a fight from Cairo TO Karachi, 2,54S
miles. in thirty.six hours actual fly.
ing time Their route was by way Of
Damascus, Bagdad Bushire, Bandar
Abbas, Sarhaz and Karachi
The machine used for the purpose
has previously been Hown from Eng.
and to Egypt and took active pan, in
final operations against the Turks in
Palestine
General Salmond viii continue his
journey by air 10 Delhi
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-13
HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS
Doctors o'Neill and Goodrich for AS.
sistants at Waterbury.

DOCTORS ONeill ana GoodriCh TOT AS
sistants at Waterbury.
Waterbury. Dec l1.-Dr. James c..
O'Neil has been appointed first as
sistant to DR. T.. A. Stanley, superin.
tendenl Of the state hospital. He is
the son OF Mr.. and Ms. John O'Nei,
of Burlington and was educated at the
Burlington high school and graduated
from the University of Vermont in
1917 Since then he has been here at
the hospital.
The second assistant will be Cap
tain Stewart l.. Goodrich, who comes
from Edgewood Arsenal, Edgewood
n. j. He is the son of Mr.. and Mrs
d. Il. Goodrich of Hardwick, and was
graduated from the U V. NJ in 1907
was at the Mary Fletcher hospital foi
timo. practised for two years in Btu
lngton and then came here to serv,
two years at the hospital. He prac
tised in the village for time, enlist
Ing last September, when he was com
mlssioned lieutenant and latcr pro
NOTED to captaincy
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-13
CONTINUE TO SAVE FOOD
Vermonters Asked TO Assist II
Reconstruction.

Montpelier, Dec. 12.-The most Vi.
tai factor in all reconstruction prob
lens is food Bolshevism, anarchy.
and mob violence are the sure re.
suits OF food shortage. Already the
gaunt spectre of famine stalks
through Europe in the wake Of war
and the eyes of hungry millions are
turned expectantly TO America to
save them from starvation.
One fact must be driven deep into
the consciousness OF every Vermont
er. 1t is that the food problem is not
solved by ceasing of hostlitles. On
the contrary the situation is rendered
all the more serious because the peo
pie of the Central Powers must also
seek part of their food supplies from
America. The final triumph Of demo
cracy is not achieved by the ending
Of the war; 1t awaits the era OF re
construction now dawning
American must show their belief il
Democracy and the brotherhood o
mankind by sharing their abundance,
Of food with those who have none
That Is the soul OF Democracy
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-13
MRS. EDWARD ALLEN C.EAo
Death Result of Influenza Which De
veloped Pneumonia.


Mrs Edward Allen passed away at
quarter OF three, Thursday afternoon.
at the home o fhor mother, Mrs Jen-
ME Nichols of Main street Death was
due TO pneumonia, following influenza.
Albertha Hannar Nichols was born
in Brookileld, this state. December, z.
1885 In April. 1904. she was married
to Edward Allen OF this town and has
since resided here She was a loving
and faithful mother and kind friend
Besides her husband she leaves three
children two daughters, Jennie and
Lena. and one son, Carl. her mother
Mrs. Jennie Nichols, three sisters
Mrs. William Bishop and Mrs. Jesse
Mallory of Woodford, Miss Zada
Nichols of Bennington, and two broth
ers. Fred +. Nichols of Hudson Falls
and Melvin r. Nicholos, who is in
service In France
/ Because members of the family are
| i'll of influenza the funeral will b,
held from the undertaking rooms a
l05 Valentine street on Saturday at
! O'clock Rev. j. Elmer Mckee vii
oiliciate Burial will be in the Parl
Lawn cemetery
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-13
Huuo,s penorlntlon Of Rhine.

The Rhine is n stream of varied as.
poets. Victor Hugo. who wrote what
was perhaps the finest article ever
written about H. said "The Rhine is
unique it combines the qualities Of
every river. Like the Rhone It is rap.
id broad. like the Loire; cncased, like
the MeuSc; serpentine, like the Seine
limpid and green. like the Somme; his
torical. like the Tiber; royal. like the
Danube; mysterious, like the Nile
spangled with gold, like an American
river; and. like "A river Of Asia, abound
ing with phantoms and fables"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-13
"sLAcKER RECORDS" DRIVE
requests From All Sides for Nor
Recruits,

requests From All Sides for More
Recruits,
The following is an extract from
atter received from Headquarters of
he Phonograph Record Recruiting
'orps
~ know YOU will be glad To hear
nat the Stacker Records drive has
cen great success. 80 much so that
aQuesls are coming in from an sides
from nigh rililary officials and war
aliei workers as we'll as from the
zen themselves for q continuance of
he campaign curing the period of de-
iobili2aton when g will be far more
ecessary than 81 was during the war
5 provide the boys with means for
athful recreation and we have.
lcreiore, decided in view of these de.
ands, to continue the organization
% permanent basis
VI You have any more records
lease bring them, at any time, %
irs Elliot. M South street
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-13

The meaning OF a paragraph de
pends very much ON the punctuation
An editor wrote "Whcn Mrs. Jone'
lecturod on Drng lr wore notlnf
that wns remurfa How the com
positor. or the 'pr 'ajer" came to
The conclusion thr s should read
"When Mrs. Jones' cured On Dress
she wore nothing That WIS remark
able" remains a mystery.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-13
NOT TO REFUGE WAGES
Railroad Employees viii Receive
Present Rate,

Washington, Dec 12.-The railroad
administration has no intention Of re.
ducing the wages OF the railroad en-
ployes generally after peace is de-
clared, it was stated authorlatiyely to-
day and if the period OF government
control is extended for five years, as
suggested by Director General Nc.
Adoo, 1t is probable that wages will
stay al their present level
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-13
Biblical War Bread.

The Scriptures give MS many lessons
in thrift. according TO writer IN
Thrift Magazine. Ezekiel warned the
children OF Israel that during the siege
Of Jerusalem they would have to be
thrifty. He said: Take thou also unto
thee wheat, and barley, and beans, ant
lentlles, and mlllet. and iitches, ant
put them in one vessel, and make the
bread thereof "-Ezekiel 40. The Bi
Bile shows that Ezekiel ordered the
children of Israel 10 eat their meat by
weight and even thus only from tim,
TO tiuo"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-13
TOLD WAR WOULD START

1870 German Civilian Employees Knew
Of Plan July 10, t9t4
Washington, Dec iS~The German
government July 10, 1914. informed
one hundred thirty German civilian
employees at a conference in Berlin
that a world war would he started
soon
Captain Lester OF the army intelli
gence service testified at the senate
committee propaganda inquiry, These
employees We're then despatched to an
parts Of The world to- stimulate pro
Germanlsm
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-13
SHIPS TO RETURN HOME
Every Capital Ship Now In Europe to
Come This Month.

Washington. Dec 13--Every capital
ship now in Europe including the
dreadnaught squadrons which have
been operating with the British main
feet, will return to home waters this
month, Secretary Daniels announced
They are expected to reach New York
two days before Christmas, and ma
val review will take place there to
celebrate.
Instructions have been cabled TO
Admiral Mayo at Brest to bring back
every vessel that can be spared Many
destroyers, converted yachts and
other craft. probably will come home
with the bigger ships,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-13
Wonderful oiant snuId.

Tho giant squid Is the largest nnima
In point Of length that exists or evel
did exist. II destroys It's prey by en-
folding il in IFS hugo snakelike arms
whhc q blackeus aud poisons the watel
with its lnky lluid. It is Il relative o
the ocupua, which is also furnished
with arms, but the latter creature IL
smaller and considerably different Il
struc,rrc.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-13
NEW LOCAL CORPORATION

Nichols Electric Company 20 Begin
Business in Near Future.
Among the corporations that have
nled articles OF association with the
secretary Of state is the Nichols
Electric company OF Bennington. The
corporation is capitalized at $4,000 and
the papers are signed by w. II. Mich
OILS, nez Nichols NJ r. Nichols SraI
Nichols and p. H. Holden, all Of this
village
II is understood that the new com
pqny will do general commercial
electrical business in supplies and viii
also handle contracts for installation
and wiring
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-13

COUNTY COURT


Good Progress Made in Bank Book
Case.
Go0d progress was made today in
county court in the ease Of the execu-
tors Of the estate Of the late R. NJ.
Hfoughton vs.. the Bennington county
savings bank and Charles A. Maurer
The suit involves a savings account of
$1,000 claimed by the executors and
Mr. Manrer fE fsfaN
The direct evidence and the cross
examination were completed during
the day. A number of veterans of
the civil war appeared as Witnesses
this forenoon, among them Capt R.
o. Gore now in his S5th year His
testimony was given with clearness
that astonished the court and others
in the court room