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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-04-05

1t 10 not too soon to begin plan
ming for the great Red Cross drive.
from May 18th ia 25th. Another
hundred million collected in June,
1917, has been spent and we'll spent.
In view Of the billions raised for de-
struction, hundred millions for saw
ing and healing IL not large
The following sentiment, ascribed
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-04-05

What the American Red Cross does
for our poor refugees no words can
describe. nor can our hearts express
their deepest gratitude. How
thoughtful, how generous!"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-04-05

tended Easter services in Olympia
Sunday.
Rev. E. Hopkins called at the ].
D. Brasch home Sunday.
Howard Benton left Tuesday, after
q visit with home folks.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-04-05

Word From ssOver There"
An Olympia boy writes from
France. THE Red Cross IL certainly
doing good work." An Italian lady
has written to q friend In America:
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-04-05
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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-05
Cherish Your Friends.

Have you a good friend? OF course
you have, every one has friends, but
every one does not hold the friend
ships they make. Friendship Is too
rare and sacred a treasure lightly to
be thrown away. And yet many peo-
pie are not careful to retain their
friends. Some lose them through in
attention, failing TO maintain those lit
tie amenities, couTtesles and kind
nesses which cost 10 little, and yet
arc hooks Of steel to grapple and hold
our friends. Some drop old friends
for new ones. Some take offense cas-
fly at imagined sights or neglOcts and
ruthlessly cut the most sacred ties.
Some become impatient Of little
faults, and discard even truest friend
ships. Some are incapable Of any
deep or permanent affection, and fly
from friendship to friendship like
birds from bough to bough, but make
no nest for their hearts In any. There
are great many ways Of losing
friends. But when we have once
taken them into our lives we should
cherish them as rarest jewels. II
sights are given, let them be over
looked. II misunderstanding arise,
let them be quickly set right
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-05
BUILT FOR SHALLOW WATER
Peculiar Marine Institution on New
England Coast Was Known In
1842 as the Camel.

In the year 1S42 a queer marine In
stitution made its appearance in Nam
Iueket and bore the name Of camel.
These camels were really huge floating
dey docks for carrying ships over the
bar, where the depth of water had
been gradually decreasing since 1880,
Being flat-bottomed the camels could
f1oat in water very much shallower
than a loaded ship required. They
were like two long, large boxes float.
Ing side by side and held together az
the ends by large iron chains.
The outer sides were almost. straight
up and down, but the inner sides were
curved, making when the two sections
were drawn together an interior basin
just the shape OF the bottom Of a
ship.
The plan was for the camels to be
separated far enough to allow the
ships to be hauled into the basin be-
tween the two sections, then TO be
drawn and held fastened together by
the chains, holding the ship between
them, so that the camels and the ship
could then be towed over the shallow
places in the channel TO the wharf.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-05
DRAFT AGES 10
TO 40 TO yNlO
100000 MEN
Sec. Bakers Bill Goes 10
Both Houses
CLASSIFYING IN 90 DAYS
There May BE Some Opposition to
Cutting Age Below 2t-None to
Raising TO as.

Washington, Aug. 3.-Extension Of
the draft ages to cover all men from
IS to 40 years of age is called for in
the new man power programme of the
War Department The War Depart
ment plans have been perfected and
we're announced by Secretary Baker
today
The bill to extend the ages will be
introduced in both houses OF Con-
gress Monday.
Secretary Bakers new age limits
are identical with those proposed in
the resolution of Senator Fall On. NJ
introduced in June, which stirred up
such debate in the Senate and
which, despite the support of Repub-
lican, was tabled at the urgent re-
quest of Mr. Baker and Gen. March,
who asked for more time in which to
consider the matter.
The new plan il approved by Con.
gress will mean registration for mill
tary or industrial purposes of many
additional millions Of Americas man
hood. On the basis of the Il to 81
registration the number Of additional
men to be registered would be
around II 900, 600, but this does not
allow for the increased mortality as
the ages advance. If the War De
partment has made any estimates
based on the mortality figures they
have not as yet been announced
Many believe that the number of new
registrants will be less than $4,000,
000. allowing for the increased mort
ality as the ages advance. If the
War Department has made any esti
mates based on the mortaliy figures
They have not as yet announced.
Many believe that the number Of new
registrants will be less than l5,0O0,O0O
allowing for the increased mortality.
Tentative registration plans have
been worked out by Gen. Crowder and
the estimate is made by him that the
task of registering and classifying the
men can be completed in ninety days
from the passage OF the act by Con
gress. While his seems a snort
period considering the gigantic task
which the new plan will now impose
upon the draft machinery, Gen
Crowder is convinced that his ma
chine is now so we'll oiled that It will
not take any longer. The new draw.
ing must take place probably with
more numbers in the bowl than under
the first registration.
The Administration proposal to
raise the draft age to As years will
meet no opposition in Cangress, but
very strong current of opposition
to cutting the age below 81 already
has been evidenced in both the Sen.
ate and House
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-05
z BENNINGTON
BOYS KILLED,
ONE WOUNDED
Bennington and Pownal Fam
lies Saddened by News
NO PARTICULARS GWEN
Raymond Church and William Smith
kllIed--John KImball Wounded De.
gree Undetermined.

Two Bennington boys have been
killed in action In France and one
has been wounded. according to the
customary kilograms received from
the adjutant generals office by rela-
tives. fs
The dead are Raymond Church arf
William Smith. The former, wnu - a
brother of Mrs. Frank Corbett, was
killed in action July IT, He was
native of South SALISBURY and 2S
years old. He enlisted in Bennington
with Company OF the first Vermont.
William Smith was the son OF Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Smith OF Arlington,
but had been employed at North Ben
nington and was well known In town
He was killed July IS. He was a
reglstrant but did not wait to be
called, enlisted and at the time OF his
death was a member OF company ],
5sth U. S. infantry. He went over
last May. A brother, James, enlisted
early in the war with company ! OF
the first Vermont. He has half
brother, Voiley Mitchell, living at
North Bennington.
Relatives in Powpal have been in
formed that John Kimball, a former
Bennington high school boy, was
wounded in action July 10. The tele-
gram stated that the degree Of Injury
was undetermined.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-05
HARVESTER CO.
TO REDUCE SIZE
Of COMBINATION
Dissolution Decree Will Be
Carried Out.
SUIT GAN IN 1912
Plants at Springfield Ohio, and Au-
burn, N. v, and Some Machinery
Lines viii Be Sold.

Washington, Aug. 4-Under an
agreement between the Government
and the International Harvester Com
pany Federal Court DEGREES declaring
the so-called Harvester Trust an un-
lawful combination and ordering its
dissolution are to be carried into ef-
feet at once The company's appeal,
pending IN the Supreme Court since
1915, is TO be dismissed and an order
issued providing for the sale of GER
tain machinery lines controlled by the
company. together with its plants in
Springfield, Ohio, and Auburn, N. Y.
The terms of the agreement were
made public tonight by the Depart
ment OF Justice.
The Harvester suit was instituted
in Minnesota in 1912 by the Govern
ment, which, for the first time in the
prosecution of alleged combinations
in restraint of trade, asked for
the dissolution of combination
on the grounds mainly of size and in
herent power The case is the first
OF the more important antitrust pro
ceedings pending in the Supreme
court to be disposed of in this man
ner since this country entered the
war.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-05
Painting a Pine Floor.

Deck paint is the technical name OF
the paint that was used on a white
pine kitchen floor. Three coats were
given, and as 1t contained consider.
able dryer, 1t dried overnight. When
the last coat was thoroughly dry II
was treated like n hardwood floor
with coat of floor wax. This pro-
tccted the paint and made the floor
easier to take care of.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-05
GERMANS FLEEING
TO VOID CAPTURE.
American Troops Take Fisn1es uuith Almost
1~ No Losses
SAVE MONEY FOR FARMERS
Direct Testimony Showing That the
Woodpecker Should Be Protected
by All AgrlcuIturlsts.

We are assured on high authority
that If birds were as numerous today
as they We're 30 years ago it would
mean saving Of many million dollars
to American farmers. The slaughter
OF migratory birds is surely followed
by the Increase of destructive insects.
Among the farmers bird friends are
the woodpeckers, especially the red
headed members of the species.
In proof there is cited the following
instance: A pair of them nested in
dead cottonwood tree near an orchard.
One day the observer watched them
through pair of glasses. The young
birds We're about half grown. The
parents made SO trips in one hour,
each time with worm. 1t is safe to
say that they saved SO apples In that
hour--a box worth, say 81. If the
birds worked ten hours a day, they
we're worth $40 to the owner of that
orchard, or, in the three weeks the
birds were In the nest $210. Ii is plain,
then, that no farmer can afford TO kill
woodpecker.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-05
Primitive Submarine.

In the early part Of the seventeenth
century submarine was successfully
navlgated in England from Westmin-
ster to Greenwich.
The inventor and navigator-Cor-
nellus Drebel, Dutchman-enjoyed
the patronage Of james I. and the
credulous king was only prevented
from taking part in submarine trip
by the assurance Of some of his cour
tiers that Drebel was "in league with
Old Nick"
The boat was so constructed that "a
person could see under the surface of
the water and without candle light, as
much as he needed to read In the Bible
or any other book" 1t was also pro.
PEELED by oars.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-05
All Wrong, Napoleon.

"The dull, drab years Of middle
age" Is the way Y. NJ. G. A. work
er classlfles the period in a mans life
from thirty-five to forty-five. He says
that men of this age are freQuenters
Of saloons, that they are mostly mar
rled and that they are not as desir-
able In the way Of citizenship as the
male individuals OF seventeen to twen-
ty-four, who spend much time with
their sweethearts, or the male indlvid-
uals more than forty-six, for that
after passing forty-five and presum-
ably surviving the dull, drab years."
fellow turns his attention to things
spiritual, generally to church work,
and begins TO live again. "The truth
is,' said pawer of the rail, this Y.
Nj. c. A. gink seems to have lost, as
q good many academic students of the
saloon lose, the real solution. No bet
ter explanation ever has been made or
ever will be made than that men go
to the saloon because they have no
place else to go that gives them the
same sort of unconventional welcome.
They 60 there not because their years
are dull and drab, but because the
gregarlous instinct calls them, New
York Sun.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-05
Birds Finally Agreed.

A family Of robins and family OF
bluebirds are occupying the same
house, something quite unusual in
bird lore, f. NJ. eastman, caretaker
of the Altoona (Pa.) reservoir, has re.
ported.
Mr.. eastman has erected n mum.
ber Of bird boxes on the watershed and
he watches over his charges lovingly.
When Papa and Mamma Bluebird
came north this spring they were hor-
rlfed to find their usual coy blr,ibox
was occupied. That is, a pair Of rob
inS, arriving week earlier, had start
ed TO build nest on the tiny porch
Of the house. A wordy battle started,
which lasted for several days. The
bluebi:ds wanted the robins to move.
The robins maintained their posi-
tion. And then, quite suddenly, hos
tilitles ceased. Investigating, Mr. CASH
man found the bluebirds We're build
ing a nest inside the box. while the
robins made themselves comfortable
on the porch. Then both mothers sat
on nest Of eggs.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-05

Miss Richen-Frlscky--My parents
wedding was very exclusive, doncha
know. They were married in the Lit
tie Church Around the Corner, in New
York.
Miss Pooren-Sassy--Pooh, that's
nothin'. Mine went up In a balloon at
the state fair and took the preacher
With 'em.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-05
GERMAN ARMIFS HAVE BEEN
DEALT SMASHING BLOW
Their Losses in Men Guns and War Material Thrills Al
lied World Great Chase Is Nearing End
Huns May Be Preparing Trap.

With the American Army, Aug. A.
The Germans are back across the
Ves.e and still going north. II Is
probable that they are going back to
the Aisne. 1t is more than possible
that they are going back to the Che
min des Danes.
II was Fismes, with all the roads
between the Aisne and the Vesle CON
verging into It, that was to have
been held by the enemy at all costs.
But today Fismes is controlled by
American troops.
Yesterday afternoon We reached
the outskirts, and today cooperation
of our infantry and artillery has
placed us in a position commanding
not only that town, but the roads
stretching ont from 1t for consldera-
BILE distances, and our guns are
ponding the northward tired Of the
Crown Princes army.
The hated Hun, his back turned on
Paris, is being driven toward where
he belongs. Many more villages have
been liberated In the last twentyfour
hours, and today France and all the
Allies can celebrate the fact that The
foes salient, which fifteen days ago
struck out like one tentacle OF an
ugly octopus, is now only an unim-
portant stub. The tentacle has been
cut. off. Other tentacles remain 10
be cut Off and then yet more work is
to be done to kill the octopus.
Our progress in the last forty
eight hours has been accomplished
with almost no losses. coming as a
sweet reward for the hard weeks OF
fighting preceding Not on'y the
Americans, but the French, British
and Italian, under the plans of Gen.
eral Foch have been hammering
steadily at the line, which caved in
all along Friday, when our troops
started on the journey which kept up
yesterday and is still continuing.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-05
MANY USES FOR sANDBAG
Soldiers Employ II in a Number OF
Ways Besides What II Is Off.
cially intended For.

The sandbag is one Of the most use
full pieces of military equipment found
anywhere and the soldier puts 1t to
manifold uses. Their official use, of
course, is to be filed with sand or clay
and built into ramparts, barricades
and trenches. Their unofficial uses are
legion.
The infantryman always uses sand
bag for carrying and storing his ra-
tlons, for patching and re-enforcIng
his clothing, for lining and Containing
his dugout, for muiiiing mallets and
stakes when putting up wire in No
Mans Land. They make excellent GAL
ters, being tied on over the puttees as
a further protection against mud and
damp. They make cozy mutflers in
bad weather They are used TO cover
shrapnel helmets to prevent reflection,
and they are frequently In demand for
rife covers.
Many soldiers always pull two sand
bags over their feet and legs when go-
ing to bed in billets; In other words,
the sandbag is Tommy's pajamas. The
warmth and comfort of burlap sand
bag when pulled over chilled feet is
astonishing.
The postmans mailbag at the front
Is nothing more than an empty sand
bag and the water carriers also use
two sandbags, slung back and front
over the shoulder. each containing a
petrol tin full of water.
"The war will be over" soldier
wit once said, 'when all of Belgium
and France has been put into sand
bags"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-05
Junule Can Furnish Food.

While the new food campaign was
being talked about at Seattle, Ran.
dolph l.. Summerfield of Singapore
who has lived forty years in the Malay
States, arrived on government mis-
sion. He Is a civil engineer. "Th(
worlds livestock market has been dec
mated" said Mr.. Summerheld, but II
worst comes to worst and there's q
real meat famine, the Juneles OF the
Malay States can supply vast quantl'
ties of meats and fats. Our forests
are full of monkeys of all kinds. Oul
streams teen with crocOdiles. The
huge anaconda snake is numerous ant
prolific. Monkey meat cooked French
or Spanish style, billed on the menu
ms veal, would make an epicure Year,
for more. There's no dlsagreeable sen
timent about killing n crocodile or the
boa constructor. Portions OF the
'croco's' tail are extraordinarily good
and the boa constructor is a culinary
favorite in India. Fried In butter, oil
certain oils, the boa constructor Is con
Hldered u dellcacy."-Argonaut.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-05
Keep Curb on speech.

Most Of us say great deal more
than we mean. We have way Of ex-
aggerating things just for the sake of
the picturesque. There is no reason
why we should talk about our own af.
fairs and less reason for talking about
our neighbors. 1t Is mighty safe rule
In business, as In life itself. TO say
only the pleasant things and keep the
unpleasant things In the background
or better STILL not TO recognize them
at all.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-05
unhulIds Chinese Army.

Ken Wang. twelfth graduate In the
1919 class at West Point academy, a
year ahead Of time. announced that he
will return to China to take part in the
upbulldlng of its new army.
Ken Wang was selected to come to
America to be educated In the best
military academy In the world ex-
pressly for the part he Is to play in
bringing military conference into Chi.
nese army affairs.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-05

MRS. JAMES E. HURLEY
Died at her Home on South Street
Early this Morning.


Mrs. Elizabeth Hackett Hurley,
aged SO years and wife OF James f.
Hurley died at her home on South
street this morning at 2 o'clock. She
had been in poor health for the past
year and for several weeks had been
steadily failing.
Mrs, Hurley, woman of remark
abe character. had lived in Benning,
ton the greater share of her life, hay-
ing come here with her PARENTS, Mr..
and Mrs. John Hackett when a small
child. BY her pleasing ways and gen
erosity for others she had grown dear
to many.
Surviving beside her husband are
a son, DR.. Frank j. Hurley, her father
John Hackett, two sisters Miss Han
nah Hackett and Mrs. John Hurley
and a brother, Edward Hackett, all Of
bennington
The funeral will be held from the
st. Frances de Sales church, of
which Mrs. Hurley was a faithful
member, at 8 o'clock Wednesday
morning. Interment will be in the
Park Lawn cemetery
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-05
The Difference.

Science is concerned with the names,
distances and magnltudes Of the stars;
and with problems touching the "ln.
testlnal parasites OF the fiea." Art, ne
erature' and religion are concerned
only with mankind with the elemental,
the universal, the eternal; with the
dream, the defeat, the romance of life
-Dallas Lore Sharp, In Atlantic.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-05
lnaeparabIs Musical Instruments.

In modern Spanish dances one finds
the woman gracefully waving a tam.
BOURNE, while her male partner agi-
tates the bones, or "castanets." The
two seem to 20 together. Indeed, 1t
has been so for thousands of years.
They were played together as an ac-
compartment Of amorous, and par
ticularly Of bacchanallan, dances In
ancient Carthage, In Athens long be.
fore the Christian ern. and In Rome.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-05
Love Letters in Hymn Book.

A pair of lovers who had been for
hidden to speak or write, attended the
same church, and their plan was the
exchange of hymn books. AS tho
young man was an officer of the
church he did this little job before
service. Most delightful and satisfac-
tory love letters could be pleced to-
gether by following certain lead-pencll
marks, ana in order TO elude even q
Sherlock Holmes of the household, the
letters were made to read from the
end to the beginning of the book.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-05
Hardy Tree Is the Palm.

While commercial dates are sue
cessful in very restricted areas, the
palm is very tough" and resourceful.
II will actually thrive in sand, in clay.
adobe. peat, swamp muck, alkaline or
salty soils and generally over a wider
runge of conditions than almost any
other plant.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-05
No Chance for Them.

An IrIshman who was driving load
Of pigs to the fair was me: by two
swells. One Of them accostch him
with the words: "Say, Pat, could you
let us have two inside seatsr To
which Pat replied with smile: swell,
then, l can't, for when l agreed with
them that's inside. l had to proinlse
that I'd take up no one that wasn't
as good as themselves. I'm so sorry"
said Pat.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-05
Pottery the Oldest Art.

Pottery is tie Oldest, the longest and
most widely diffused OF all human arts.
It's history, II recorded would be as
old as the history of man; its record
ed history begins with the building of
the tower Of Babel. The oldest pot
terry known is Egyptian, but every peo-
pie, civilized or barbarian. has prac-
tlced the art in one or another form.
All study In every department Of art
begins at period not long after the
Mosaic deluge, but pottery Is the
earliest of all forms Of art.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-05
Mnshlnnton a Free Mason.

That General Washington was an nc-
tlve Free Mason in good stnnding is
shown by the historic statement that
the southeast corner stone OF the cap
tol was laid September IS 1903, by
Brother George Washington, assisted
by the worshipful masters and Free
Masons of the surrounding cities, the
military and large number of people"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-05
suIoIdes AmOno Japanese students.

According to Rev. Dr. Sidney l..
Gullck, who lived long In the far East,
suicides among Japanese students are
probably more prevalent than among
any other students in the world. The
causes he mentions are. first, the high
strung nerves and exceptional senJ-
tlveness TO anything that may be re-
garded ms n personal humiliation; and
second, the extraordinary competition
among students TO secure places In
the government schools.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-05
Greenland Rich in Metals.

Greenland, that huge Danish terri
tory, has copper, lead. silver tin.
Flakes Of absolutely pure silver have
been picked up in crevices along the
cliffs. Masses Of almost pure iron are
found in Greenland. One which was
brought to Europe was six and a hnlf
feet long by five and half thick. and
weighed 10000 pounds.