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first chapter will be sort of magical envclopement
by the airs and summers Of forty years ago.
every prosperous family with children kept
Newfoundland dog. In that town, in those days,
all the women who wore silk velvet knew all the
other women who wore silk or velvet, and when
there was new purchase of sealskin, sick people
were got to windows to see it go by. . Old
men and governors wore broadeloth all full dress
was broadcloth with 'doeskin' trousers and there
were seen men Of all ages to whom hat meant only
that rigid. tall, silk thing known to impudence as
'stovepipe. In town and country these men
would wear no other hat, and, without self-con-
seriousness, they went rowing in such hats.
1t was hairier day than this Boards were to
wearer S fancy, and things strange the kaiser
Eche boar tusks mrstaehe commonplace. Side
burns found nourishment upon childlike profles;
great Dmndreary whiskers blew like tippets over
young shoulders. . After sunrise, on pleas
ant mornings, the alleys behind the stables were
gay laughter and shouting went up and down their
dusty lengths with lively accompaniment of cur
rycombs knocking against back fence and stable
walls, for the darkies loved to curry their horses
in the alley. Darkies always prefer to gossip in
shouts instead of Whispers and they feel that pro
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at every strOl

is the picture of George, the Lad in the Lord
Faunteroy suit who told the Rev. Mslloch Smith
to 60 to hell, the 6-year-Od who sent home
from school for ''insolence and profanity" and
who almost drove over people in his dogcart, the
sickening young man who forbade Eugene Morgan
the house, the unlocked cub who interfered and
fatally, with his mothers happiness The obvious
tribute to the authors skill in this matter rests in
the readers acute evaporation, an evaporation
which grows until he is as fereely eager as any
neghbOr to see George Anderson Minafer get his
come-upance. The subtler tribute to Harrington
as an artist lies in this: that does the reader
doubt the good stuff his young man has in him
along with his intolerable selfsufciency In other
words, there is something Sympathetic" in the
boy after all how remarkable an achievement it
was to get and keep it there only a professional
writer perhaps viii realize! The reader feeling
couldn I be articulated better than by the parting
words to George of George s uncle:
'''You II forgive me for saying that there have
been times when 1 thought you ought to be hanged
but I've always been fond of you and now I
like YOU "
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERsONs. BY RcorH TAs<-
NGrcS. Dosbeday, Page Co $lAo.
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American literature dealt with young men who
Owed their hair green and wore velvet lomcloths
the hiehbruw would be enthusiastic about American
literature-provided it not Only dealt with these
freaks but expressed itself unintelliglbly about
them If Americans listened to their literary
preeeptors they would be forced to the eoneiu-
sion that to be truly great an American author
must receive the praise Of William Dean Howells
IN the one hand or Ezra Pound on the other But
Americans are pioneers They know intrinsic
worth.
America in 1873.
They distinguish it in Mr.. Harrington and they
will distinguish it in The Magnificent Anibers0ns.
They will welcome the rather long and lelsurely
eyocation of the life of the '70s with which the
novel opens
..Maior ANDERSON had made fortune IN 1878,
when other people were losing fortunes, and the
magnificenec of the Ambersons began then. Mag
nifeence like the size of fortune, is always COM
parative, as even Magnificent Lorenzo may now
perceive, if he has happened to haunt New York
in 1916; and the Ambersons were magnificent in
their day and place"
What was their day and place' There arc plenty
nov living to whom the rest of Mr.. darlington
The sun., 1918-10-20

A COUPLE of months ago when
"A Books and the Book World
was casually canvassing the American
literary field a reader wrote US letter
in which he referred to Booth Tark-
ington as "that purveyor of light
literature. He was one Of those who
had never read The FItrt, evidently.
We suppose that, secure in his own
infallible conclusion, he will not read
The Magnificent Ambersons. This
is the new Harrington novel.
Better for him that he should not
read it. For if he is the egoist that
he seems he will not understand it +;
and if he is not he will have to junk
his neat little classification OF the
Man from Indiana. Mr.. Harrington
is not a purveyor of light literature
at all; he is the Ightest purveyor OF
very heavy literature America pos
scsses to-day.
Almost all our other writers show
strain occasionally; Harrington never
does. o. Henry took the savage
plunge into bitterest irony when he
could hold himself in no longer. IRWIN
Cobb prepares his effects. Mary
Johnston can be superbly dramatic
but not without being theatrical,
too. And so on. But where in Tark-
ington is there touch Of theatricism,
q fragment of sermon, single ut
terance in the voice OF the Author
at once grand, gloomy and peculiarf =
The man is so consummate an artist
that the highbrows don't know him
for one! For, you know, all the world
is really lowbrows except the man
who puts asthetifcation above every
thing else, art above life, form above
substance, his perverted ideal OF
"beauty" above the larger beauty
that's truth and mysticism and
imagination and laughter and tears
and poetry. The highhE~w has no
use for truth and mysticism and
imagination nor American literature
that deaIs with American life Ii
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The Magnificent Harrington
To His Collection of Contemporary American
Portraits He Adds an Instantly Recognizable Youth

family, unless it be Vociferous, is al
most worthless. Horrible phrases were
caught by early rising children and
carried to older people for definition,
sometimes at inoppOrtune moments;
while less investigative children would
often merely repeat the phrases IN
some subsequent furry Of agitation,
and yet bring about consequences 50
emphatic as to be recalled with ease
in middle life"
A Young Mans Come-upance.
The story Of The Magnificent Am-
bersons is the story of an insufferable
young man getting his come-upance.
1t is not a story the action of which
can be related by this reporter with
out spelling the readers enjoyment.
A few things we may say. George
Anderson Minafer was the grandson
of that Major Anderson mentioned
at the outset OF the novel. His father
is a nullity in the Ambersonian radi-
ance. 1t is his mother, next to
"Georgie, who most stands out in
the story; and Lucy Morgan, the
young woman in whom George Amber
son Minafer came TO have a special
interest, does not rank with the best
Harrington portraits. Her father, Eu-
gene Morgan, the automobile inventor,
is much more distinctively imned.
He is important as the usurper Of
the Anderson magnifcence, but more
important as the youthful lover of
Isabel Anderson, Georges mother.
The novel is not consciously Amer
lean and therefore it is triumphantly
American. 1t is not deliberately big
and therefore it is tremendously big.
Really the action is confined to q half
dozen people-George, his mother,
Eugene Morgan. Lucy Morgan, the
old Major and Georges uncle. There
are others in the proper perspective
and with the proper amount of sharp
definition; but they do not count.
What does count and what counts
~ o.yo-x, otrol~o oe %b.a To rl,,1r4or mar,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-27
Away With False Pride

Thousands OF women would have
quit buying butter long ago If there
had been another and better substi-
tute than the old Oleomargarine.
There is now-Benefit Brand Sweet
Nut This delicious product does
not contain a particle of Oleo or any
animal fat whatever, although an old
law requires the word Oleomargarine
to be placed on the package, II Is
made solely from the nutritious part
of the creamy white meat of ripe co.
coanuts, churned with pasteuried
milk. it tastes. and has the same nu-
tritive qualities as the finest creamery
butter. When served. nobody can tell
the difference between the two. But
there's big differenc in price.-Bene
fit Brand Sweet Nut is only S3c a
H.: averaging from lSc to 25c. lb.
cheaper than butter Good alike for
eating and cooking. Don't let names
guide your butter buying-that's only
false pride. You can buy Benefit
Brand Sweet Nut" only at the Direct
importing Co.'s store with the yellow
front. 433 Main S l., Bennington
where Benefit Brand Teas, Coffees
and Grocery Specialties are retailed
at wholesale prices. Look out for ouI
store in your town.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-27
ATTY. o'BRlEN DENIES CHARGES
Files His Answer in Disbarment Pro-
ceedinus.

Rutland. Dec 25--Attorney Ernest
H. O'Brien OF this city today filed with
County Clerk George n. Harmon his
answer in the disbarment proceedings
brought against him in the Vermont
Supreme Court by Attorney General
H. G. Barber of Brattleboro Mr. Bar
Der charged that O'Brien had violated
his oath as an attorney at law by Civ
ing false testimony in the case OF
George p Eastman VS.. the Vermont
Marble company, involving a bound.
AIRY line at West Rutland and in a
controversy in which Attorney B. H.
Stickney OF Rutland, as O'Brien' S
client. sought to recover IN account
from the estate of Josephine b.
Holmes. his mother-in-law.
Mr. O'prien makes a complete den.
ial OF all charges He asserts that
what he aLsd about the finding OF an
alleged ancient document in the East.
man case and the plaintiffs counsels
, lack of knowledge of rs existence was
true to the best of his knowledge He
denies that he knowingly permitted
Mr.. Stickney to introduce in evidence
falsfied account Mr.. O'Brien asks
that the state be compelled to prove
its claims by evidence.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-27
MAY GO TO SIBERIA
Miss vossler Has Opportunity for,
Overseas Service.

Miss Mathilde Vossler. former
recreation instructor for the Benning
ton Public Welfare association and
who is in town for a few days, has
been requested to become one OF a
contingent of Young Women's Christ
ian association workers that is TO
soon leave this country for Siberia.
Since leaving Bennington Miss Vos-
sler has been engaged with the associ-
alton in its recreation work under
taken in connection with the war
camps in the south. She has had
headquarters in Richmond, Va. and
in her work has covered n number of
the southern states.
If she complies with conditions for
service in Siberia 1t means that she
will agree to be absent from America
for period of three years, If so de-
sired. She has already passed the
rigid physical examination required
but has not made decision. That
three-year clause in the contraot
looks rather long. She may, howeyer p
conclude to undertake the work.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-27
A. P. LEAGUE Of
100000 MEMBERS
D|SS0LVESFEB. |
Branch Organizations in Nearly
Every City and Town
VALUABLE WORK DONE
More Than Three Million lnvestI0a.
tiOns Have Been Conducted by
II During War.
VALUABLE WORK DONE

Washington, Dec. 26--Dissolution
Of the American Protective League
with its membership Of 250,OOO and
branch organizations in nearly every
city and town in the country, effec-
tive February /, was announced today
by the league directors. Decision to
break up the organization. said
statement issued by the directors
was reached after conference with de.
partment OF justice officials.
Attorney General Gregory in a let
ter written shortly after the armistice
was signed asked that the organiza.
tion which was formed shortly after
relations were severed with Germany
and which the attorney general said
has performed great task, continue
its activities during the period OF re.
adjustment. A canvass of the sltua.
ton, the statement says, resulted In
an agreement to disband February |.
With the coming of peace, the state.
ment declares there is no peace for
organized citizen espionage"
Men who devoted much time and
effort to the purposes of the league,
said the statement, now desire to
take their place in the constructive
work of peace The return of peace
would soon render the problem OF
finance acute, the directors believe
and many local organizations would
be forced to suspend
Although the league will disband,
the directors statement expires ses a
belief that the service of the league
viii not end but 1t will remain
potent force" through the training
received by it's members during the
war.
More than three million investi.
cations are said to have been con
Quoted by the league, during thel war,
for the department OF justice, military
intelligence. provost generals Office.
the state. navy and treasury depart.
ments, the food and fuel administra.
tions, the alien property custodian
and other governmental bodies
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-27
COnqueFe Rheumatism
In a Very Few Days

II is an established fact that a
small dose of Rheuma taken once a
day has driven the pain and agony from
thousands OF racked, crippled and de.
spairing rheumatics during the last
seven years.
Powerful and sure; quick acting.
yet harmless and inexpensive. Rheu.
ma gives blessed relief almost at
once. The magic name has reached
nearly every hamlet in the land and
there is hardly a druggist anywhere
who cannot tell You of almost marvel
ous cures
II you are tortured with rheumatism
or sciatica, you can get Rheuma from
w. /. Gokay or any druggist, with The
understanding that If It does not com
pletely drive rheumatic poisons from
your system--money back
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-27
FORMER CAR Of
RUSSIA IS AGAIN
REPORTED ALIVE
Nephew of General SkOropadski
Is Positive About 1t
, is IN NEUTRAL COUNTRY
Accounts Of Cars Murder Were Man.
ufactured by Trotzky and Lenine
for Propaganda Purposes.

Warsaw Tuesday. December "a
There is no doubt that the Car and
his entire family are alive am
positive of this was the declaration
made to a correspondent today by
Michael de Tchihatoheff, nephew of
General Skoropadski, and who has
Just escaped from Ukraine.
De Tchihatoheff said he could not
reveal the Cars whereabouts; but
it was in a neutral country and was
known to one allied government. He
said the accounts of the Cars murder
were manufactured by Trotzky and
Lenine for propaganda purposes.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-27
PEACE CONGRESS
GETTING INTO
a. .,-an..,anu
LINE FOR WORK
Personnel of Great Historic
Gathering Is Forming
U. S. DELEGATES ON HAND
The Great Powers Will Each Have
, Five Delegates, While Others Have
4. From One to Four.

Paris, Dec. 26-The personnel of
the peace congress is gradually tar
ing form, so that the American dele
gates express the hope that the dele
cations will arrive for the actual COM
mencement of the negotiations soon
after the opening of the new year
A number of the main details OF the
composition of the congress are now
fairly well settled as result of re-
cent conferences. These indicate that
the total membership of the congress
will be between 100 and 12O. There
will be q countries represented by
delegations, including those which de-
clared war and number which came
into existence as a result of the war.
The great powers, notably, Great
Britain, France and the United States
and Italy, each have been allotted five
delegates, while the other delegations
will vary from one to four members,
according to the size of the country
and the interests involved.
Word has been received that the
Belgian and Portuguese delegations
soon will join the representatives of
the United States, who thus far are
the only members of the peace con
gress to arrive.
The non-arrival of the others has
been the subject of considerable sur
prise and adverse comment, the
Americans taking the ground that
they are here ready to proceed to bus
mess but the personnel of the con
gress is not vet announced Il is un
derstood that President Wilson's visit
to England is likely to result In con
veying quite differently the view that
II is highly desirable that the con
gress should be put into motion with
thn least apssll'e delay
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-27
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

WANTED-A capable woman for
general housework Miss Norton. $40
Elm street S3t2'
WANTED--A girl for second work.
Apply Helen j. Thomas, S04 Pleasant
street. S3t2'
LOST-Ten dollar bill last Saturday
between Woolworth's and Lures
stores. Reward if returned to Banner
office. safe
TO RENT-Seven room house in
Guideboard district Apply Newman
harrington. tel. 53s-M or drop postal
card. S3t6'
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-27
NOTICE! !!

The annual meeting OF the stock.
holders Of the First National Bank OF
North Bennington, VI, win be held at
their banking house on Tuesday, the
seventh day OF January, 1919, at ten
O'Clock, A. NJ, for the purpose of elect.
ing a Board OF Directors for the ensu.
Ing year and for any other proper and
necessary business
Ralph A. Jones, Cashier.
Dated North Bennington, VI. Dec.
omher bth, 1918
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-27

London. Dec. 26--When King
George shook hands with President
Wilson as the president arrived. he
said. 81 am very glad to welcome you
to England"
81 am very happy to come" the
president replied.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-27

In the September class, 1918, there
were l,O6l registrants between the
ages of 10 and 36 years and 167 boys
is years old.
During September, 1913, the board
enrolled 2656 registrants of whom
1923 had passed their 37th birthday
anniversaries and were not classified,
or those between the ages OF 10
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-27
LOCAL BOARD ENROLLED
1884 REGISTRANTS
Total Does Not Include Men Under
Last Call Who Were over
az Years. ,

The Bennington county exemption
board that recently closed its hooks
classified 3,1S4 registrants during the
period that 1t was in operation.
Naturally, the larger portion of the
boards work that resulted in placing
men in the ranks of the national army
was transacted during the summer
and early fall of 1917 From the June
class of that year the board sent 420
accepted to camp. From the June
class of 1918 we're secured 50 and from
the September class of the same year,
As.
In the classification about seventy
five men are listed as deserters but
these were mostly registrants, who
failed to return questionnaires. The
majority Of them were men who were
employed on lumber Jobs in the noun
tains and who had no fixed place OF
abode.
And some were men who enlisted
and were in the army but failed TO
Ale questionnaires as required by
selective service rules.
The June class, 1917, consisted OF
1857 registrants. of these there were
Tin1ttod oarvioa ,nan %
Arizona republican., 1918-04-24
The Eialat at Seieheprey

Why the department is holding up the report of the fight at Secheprey must be puzzng to Aeri' cans. Though it occurred last Saturday and though German reports claimed that 1sS Americans had been captured and large number killed, we only know that General Pershing Monday reported that the Ameri- can casualties were than 200 while those Of the Germans were estimated to be between 800 and 4oo
 The first report of the engagement from the American front not the official repot led to be- Iieve that the Americans had been victorious It was stated that full regiment of Germans had participant ed in the raid and that they were repulsed The at- tacking force is said to have suffered severely.
 Washington replied to the German statement regarding the fight that it had confirmation NOW the department is prepraed either to confirm or refute The more quickly it does one or the other e better it will be for the American people
Arizona republican., 1918-04-24
The Revelation of Colonel House

Colonel E. M. House is mystery no longer we rather regret that the veil has been lifted
 Almost from the moment Col. House from the plains of Texas flashed athwart the international horizon 8 comparison instituted between him and the Sphinx The latter by comparison came to De regarded garrulous character, wearisome con- versationast. But it appears that Col. House has of late been doing geat deal of talking about him. self Some syndicate writer has lifted the colonel out of himself and is hanging him high before the public He has become intimate and is therefore longer heroic He can never be mystery again but he may be a candidate for president
 We are in fair way to know all about Colonel House what he had for breakfast. Dog gone that syndica+r wrller Somebody is always taI ing the joy out of life. We'll have to fall back on the old Sphinx
Arizona republican., 1918-04-24
LAST TRIBUTES ARE
 PAID MRS. DORMAN

The funeral of Mrs. ". $. Dorman who died Saturday, was held yester- day. There was a short service at a PhoenlX chapel and a service at the Mesa Methodist church. Burial was in the Mesa cemetery.
 Mrs. Dorman was the wife of W. s.
 Dornan of the Dwight 5. Heard force. She was S6 years old. Mrs. Dorman
 was born in Iowa and lived in Mesa Tor 2o years and in Phoenix since Octo- Der 1. last.
 She was always an active worker in the Methodist church and Sunday School and W. c. T. L., popular and
 well beloved by all. Beside her hus-
 band she is survived by three young
 sons, Wilbur, Dudley and Fred; and | two young daughters, Mary Elizabeth
 and Eleanor Della; by her aged mother
 Mrs. Sarah D. Wilbur; three brothers
 George and Everett Wilbur of Mesa
 and Walter H. Wilbur of Crystal Lake, 1 H.
 | Floral offerings were many and
 beautiful at the funeral services.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-24
MORE MENTOR
 RA|DO WANTED

Six or seven more men are needed to
 complete a class in radio and buzzer
 work just started nights at the Phoenix high school building, according to I. Colodny, director of the department of vocational education for Arizona, last night.
 He says the government needs 30,000 more wireless operators at once and that the class here is open to any drafted man wishing to become wire less operator. The requirements of the government are that operators be able to send and receive ten words min ute, continental code.
 As soon as the present class has been filled another will be started, said Colodny. It is proposed also that q
 class be established at Prescott The hours of the class here are from to 9 o'clock evenings. Prof. Colodny says any eligible man wishing information
 may reach him by phone 4201, or room 406, capitol building.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-24

day. But the saving of these men from unnecessary risk is the triumph of modern science and invention.
 This is the whole story. Let us give our men the most wonderfully complete protection that the genius and power of united America can devise. Guns and shells save lives Liberty Bonds pro- vide the guns and shells. Is there any where in this great, young nation a man or woman or child with heart so cold as to hesitate? Where the choice IS clear between lending our money to our Government and permitting one unnecessary drop of blood to be shed by our boys in France-when 1t is bonds or blood-who will deny we will take three, five, yes, fifty billions of bonds if necessary?
 Go to your bank today and put every dollar you can spare at work saving lives and bringing those boys home alive and victorious.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-24
CLEVELAND CASE
 |S SWEARING JURY

The taking of testimony was com- pleted yesterday afternoon in the case of the state against A. R. Cleveland charged with murder. The case will be argued at Il o'clock this morning.
 The state yesterday introduced as evidence the rifle with which EImer Pierson shot and killed A. w. Peay. a Glendale rancher. The defense pro- duced as it's chief witness, Elmer Pier son, who recently pleaded guilty to killing Peay. Mrs. Peay took the stand for rebuttal testimony and told of q conversation between Peay and Cleve- land which she overheard. This con. versation tended to show that Cleyn- land aided and abetted Pierson in the killing of Peay. The case will go to the jury this afternoon, according to plans outlined