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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-13
TO RENT

TO RENT-Stores omces. teDements
o, ns s'ahlAa. 'rd'v'h~sl ator
age lockers, furnished apart
te tu oua 8ti c~ntrali
cated Gen M Hawks. AS Main 81
TO RENT-Furnished rooms with
steam heat. electric lights, bath, hot
water and all modern Improvements
at 112 Pleasant St. Inquire at the
Cut Price Market, tel. 432.M 70t6
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-13

WANTED-Cash paid for yellow
birch logs 10 inches and up In diameter
also other kinds of wood. IL. T. Cush'
man, Mfg. Co. 44''
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YANTTC

Charles Brown recently purchased a pair of black draft horses and is using them teaming. Z.
 Twb former Yantic boys in the U. S. government service are Corporal Roger McGlone, somewhere in France. and Private Patrick Laugf1lin, who is on the U. $. s. San Francisco.
 MT. and Mrs. Charles Smith and their guest, Miss Lila Smith, have re- turned from. a few days stay in Bos- ton. While there they attended the automobile show.
 George Avery recently purchased a fine deliver ytruck
 Orin Banning, Jr., has been con fined to the house for the past week by illness.
 John C. Tracy, Jr.. who has been spending the winter with relatives in East Hampton, spent a few days earlier in the week at his home here returning "Wednesday. &
 Mrs. John c. Tracy is spending a few days in East Hampton, the guest of Mrs. Wasrous.
 Charles Frink, who left here with the last quota of drafted men, is with the 30th regiment, Eighth battalion, al Camp Devens.
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RID STOMACH OF GASES, SOURNESS,
 AND INDIGESTION
~PAPE's DiAPEPslN" RELIEVES STOMACH DISTRESS IN
 FIVE MINUTES.

FoC don't want a slow remedy when your stomach is bad-or an uncertain one-or a harmful one-your stomach is tco valuable; you mustn't in jure it with drastic drugs.
 Tapes Diapepsin is noted for it's speed in giving relief; it's harmless ness; its certain unfailing action in regulating sick, sour, gassy stomacfs. Its quick relief in indigestion, dyspep- sia. and gasritis when caused by iacidfty has made itsfamouss the world over.
 Ketp this wonderful stomach sweet ener in your home-keep it handy-get a largo fifty-cent case from any drug sstDre and then if anyone should eat somctidng which doesn't agree with ithem; if what tneyseat lays like lead, ferments and sours and forms gas; causes headache, dizziness and nausea; eructations of acid and undigested food -remember as soon as Pape's Diapep- sin comes fn contact with the stomach 5t helps to neutraIize the excessive sacidity. then all the stomach distress icausel by it's disappears It's prompt ness certainty and ease insovercoming Euch stomach disorders siss a sreYesation Eotthosesw siryl1t-
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WORKING FOR BETTER
 HIGHWAY TO BASE.
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 public meeting for March 22nd Our citizens have learned that progrsss on work at the Navy Yard is handicapped because it is isolated from New Lon- don and Norwich and express and freight service is so unreliable and
 full of delays
 The federal government early sa>S the great need of good approaches to the
 Navy Yard and did cause to be con- structed last year the section referred to on the south. Because of the con- gestion and great delay incident to
 crossing the ferry and other reasons tlereinbefore mentioned, the base iz unable to secure the transportation service it demands. from New London nor the supplies necessary to keep
 pace with the chara cter,, size ani
 growth of this important war base. We ! believe the proper construction and maintenance of this particular high : way is a prime necessity to the sue
 cessfm conduct of the war as it re- lates to the submarine.
 We count on your interest ir this 1 matter and trust it will be sufficient l to induce you to come to Norwich on 1 the 22nd and meet our members We 1 would like you to know the conditions I now. existing and we want your advice 1 as to how to meet the emergency. We | expect government officials to tel us publicly. what they have already told 1 us privately. the necessity that exists l Please forget that we have selfish
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ly, perhaps, been interested in this project in the past or that we would get some present trade advantage by the improvement of the highway now Just take under advantage by the inn proyernent of the highway DOW. Just take under consideration the fact that this branch of our government, Q small city, at the Navy Yard must be Scrv- ed by some neighboring city. New Lon don is congested and unable to handle business required by it's enormous in- crease in population and construction. Norwich, which is only t-Fo miles more distant from the Navy Yard than Now London, is the jobbing center of East cTn Connecticut, is becoming the home of officers who are stationed at the Submarine Base and who would like to go back and forth by automobile and thus increase their hours of employ mentNin the government service.
 Motor Truck Service.
 Norwich is prepared to establish 9 motor bus and motor truck service to
 the Navy Yard if the highway can be
 improved and we can thus servo our
 nation or any branch of it's service The people now behind this movement lave no selfish interest; they are even
 \lling to contribute towards this pro- ie.% as patriotic citizens.
 If our organization can in tbe aext year bring about the improvement Of this highway it will cement our mem bership as nothing else could ani pave the way for cooperation on other lines to help win the war We have already given up about all the usual activities Of g. Chamber oE Commerce and are devoting our efforts to problems relat- ing to the war.
 We 1bespeak your cooperation. Have we a right to it in view of the forego- l ing? t<- Highway Commissioner Bennett, ir reply to Mir Cary's invitation, said !! that he would be glad to attend the meeting and to near whatever argu= ments may be advanced regarding the 1 desirability of constructing ths road i from a military standpoint. In h;s reply he made mentioli of the fact ! that the state has improved the road 1 leading from the submarine base to ! Groton at the request of the United 1 States authorities and the state coun- i cil Of defense. 1 Tine. commissioner has since notified 1 the secretary of the chamber that he 1 will be present at the opening meet iag or the 22nd
 1 Secretary Brancfe has also received the following. communication IroIr Commissioner Bennett in regard to tho proposed improvement:
 I am in receipt of a communication l from the State Council of Defense, CT
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closing your letter to them dated Rarch 9th.
 There are certain things in this let ter which are somewhat misleading. In the first place. our statement that the road could be put in good condition for s1, 800 applied to the condition of the road at the time we close1 the west side Of the river owing 10 tho construction of a concrete road, and by no means indicates that this road can be made . motor truck rouce for S1, ,5eG or for anything like that sum.
 This s1.50Q was to be spent on shaping up the existing road and put ting it in good passable condition, but if the road is to be used for heavy mo- tor truck traffic between Norwich and the Submarine Ease, that is an en- tirely different matter.
 You will be interested 10 note that on the request of the war department, we improved the road from the Grotou Ferry to the Submarine Base. and un- derstood at that time that this was the most important thing that could be done for their relief.
 Acquisition From Government.
 You will also be interested to know that in other cases of a like char acter, acquisitions for the construc ,ion of roads have come officially rrom the governmental other state departments than Connecticut For instance, in Louisiana, the United States govern ment contributed g considerable amount of money toward tue construc- tion of a road of this ciaracCer, and in Massachusetts also on the road to Camp Devens near Aver.
 You will also realize that if heavy motor trucks are run between Nor wicll and the Submarine Base, it will be necessary to reconstruct the draw bridge south of the Norwich Hospital. as this bridge is not safe for heavy traffic at the present time.
 The above points for your consider alton prior to the meeting on March 22nd.
 Secretary Branche is now preparing the call for the open meeting of the Chamber of Commerce to be held on the evening of March 22d. John B. Daniels of Linden Parkway, assistant payp1aster [. $. navy, anI supply of ficer. with headquarters at the sub tien to attend the meeting and to pre- sent the needs of the submarine base as far as the highway is concerned. IS 1 is also possible that-C Commander John Rogers of the base win be present and 1 will talk On the matter. State High- way Commissioner Charles J. Benfsstt | has accepted an invitation 10 attend l the meeting An invitation to attend | the meeting has been extended A T.
 Miner, president of the New London
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NORWICH WAR BUREAU
 HAS ENDORSED PROJECT
Should Be Properly Repaired as .
 Necessary War Measure.

The Norwich War Bureau has en- dorsed the project and at 9 recent meeting adopted resolutions urging the immediate repair of the highway as g nece ssary war measure. The rcso- lution adopted by the war bureau fol lows:
 Whereas, a highway. extending from the city of Norwich to the town of Groton. exists on the west side of the Thames river. but is of no praStical use or benefit because of the poo- condition of the highway lying between the town line of Norwich and a point known as the United States Submarine Base on said highway,
 Whereas said highway, if properly repaired, would be a great and direct benefit for commercial and trans3orta- ton purposes to the towns of Nor wich, Preston, Ledyard and Groton..
 Whereas said highway, if properly repaired would decrease the great amount of traffic on the highway west of ssaid Thames river great amount of l traffic on the highway. west Of said Thanies river and greatly relieve the congestion at the Groton and New Londcn ferry terminals. Whereas said Highway, if properly repaired, would appear to be of q great military 2dFGntase ana necessary 10 the said Submarine. Base. located. isi said GrotQn. giving and aft rdi,sg. its direct highway communication to the city. Of Norwich. on the north. thereby putting said Submarine Base in touch
 with two commercial centers instead Of one,
 Whereas the Chamber of Commerce fof said Norwich has been requested by the naval officers in charge. Of the
 said Submarine Base to inaugHrate a movement for the immediate. repair of 1 sAt5 highway.
 TlN~efore be it Resolved, That the | Norwic. War B,lreau heartily approy-
 es and recommends. that the said high. way between Norwich and the said l Submarine Base immediately be put ! in a state Of proper repair as neces- sary war measure and as a necessary I precautionary step for military and ma | val preparedness.
 1 That copy of this resolution be ! sent by the chairman of the Norwich l War Bureau to the Connecticut State l Highway Commissioner and to the | Connecticut State Council of Defense.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-15
NORWICH TOWN
ERsrorts Heard at Meeting of Lathrop F.. M. S.-Miss Etta Walkers
 Brother Dead in ProVidence-Intsr-
 esting Exhibits of Pupils Work.

The First Congregational Lathrop Memorial Foreign Missionary society met Wednesday afternoon at the home lof Mrs c. W. Chapin on Town street. Miss Susan C. Hyde, president, was 3n charge of the business meeting and program The report of the January meeting was given by the secretary. The next meeting will be in April. A
 brief report of Miss PrestDns address iIoefore the officers of the auIharies Aof the Eastern Branch was given.
 Then the fourth chapter of An African Trail, The Ten Tyings, was Hound to be most interesting. Cues itions and answers on the third and ifourrh chapters made a good review.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-15
FARM HELP WILL
 NOT BE TAKEN.
In Special Call for so,ooo Men-striet Watch of, Those. Deferred is Ordered.

The following notice has been re- ceived by the local exemption board: To Local Boards:
 Number B 80. A new national and state quota will be announced as soon as congress acts on pending legiSla- ton governing the appointment of quotas. In the meantime it will be necessary to call new increment of about 90,000 men to be distributed equally throughout the United States. The call for these men will go out later in the day. In several cases shis call will run over the current quota of the state, and boards upon which 1t is made, but the excess will be credited on the new quota of each, state and board affected, as will all other excess due to special calls.
 The situation arising from the scarcity of farm labor demands that the call to the colors of men actively, completely and assiduously engaged in the planting or cultivation of a crop but who are in Class and within the new quota, should be deferred until the end of the new quota.
 Please instruct your local boards therefore, that the president directs that, in filling this emergency call they shall pass the order numbers o1 such men and defer their call for the present. It must be borne in mind that this step is taken solely in the need of the nation and not for the benefit of any individual. Therefore while boards should consider it a grave duty to exercise this power tc conserve and augment the agricul- tural production, they should observe closely the conduct of those deferred and immediately upon becoming con vinced that any pergon so deferred is not giving his entire tinne axd ear nest attention to agricultural duty ol that hc is trifing with the defermen- J Snus granted him, the board shoult 1 forthwith call him to the colors. Al
 citizens should assist in making this expedient effective and in bringing tC
 the attention of the boards cases mer iting defer1nent as well as cases il
 which deferment is being abused. CROWDER.
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Now, don't get the idea that I'm going to play the part of a volunteer "god -in-the machine lowered over the stage front out a theatrical fog. to lay down any hard and fast law for my fellow farmers
 Don't read another word of this, if you're looking for anything of that sort. I'm not the judge of all the earth,-nor of a single solitary in dividual upon it, thanks be
 But I wonder. sometimes, if, in the necessarily keen and often sordid struggle after farm profits some of us don't lose sight of the higher things. And if it wouldn't be well for such of us to stop 8 bit and con- slider the situation from the stand points mentioned above, of patriotism, honesty and foresight
 I am not going to try to teach you either morals or busine ess. I'm now merely suggesting that there are va rious angles from which you can. your- self view your own morals aDd Hns mess, and wondering whether some giant might not set q clearer cor ceptien of the actual situation by figuratively, lifting themselves ont of themselves and taking a long look at themselves from the outside.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-15
Attended M.morial Mass.

Mrs John Mccarthy and Mrs. Hen Ty Farrell have returned to Hartford, having been heIe to attend the months mind mass for their mother, Mrs. Ellen Kingsley.
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and beyond it to get clear idea and be fitted for a. jtldicjous' Judgment
 The one fact that a farmer takes more for one crop than it fairly costs him, is not proof that he IS a profiteer. any more than the fact that he has to sell another crop for less than it costs him is proof that he. is a wastrel. It's the spirit in which he acts and the way in which he makes up his. balance of profit and loss, which tells the story
 ]. lt tells that story only to him and his God. He. knows and God knows
 And that duo is a very potent ma iority, in the final count
 I don't know whether you're a prohteer or patriot. No human being knows outside your own vest. All I'm suggesting today is that you make it clear to yourself and Him which you are. Then you can't go far wrong
 THE FARMER.
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Erhibit of School Work.

Parents and friends were interested 5n the display of work and in recfta- ,tions given in the schools uptownrSn "Wednesday. At the West Town street school there were six visitors and more than that number at Town street school
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Mir. and Mrs. Philo Hume left on Thursday for Chester, Pa, after visjt- 5nR Mir. and Mrs. James Mckee of Bliss place.
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At Scotland Road hall Sunday af- ternoon there win be a Christian En- ,deavor service and a session of the Sunday school
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shelterinq Arms serxiee.

Rev. c. H. Ewing and choir of First Congregational church will be at the ShefteT1ng Arms for the Sunday af- ternOon service.
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Miss Walkers Brother Dead.

Miss Eta Walker of Washington street is in Providence. called there by ithe death of her brother.
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Miss Mary Ryan Of West Town sreet has returned from ten daye' visit in East Orange, N. T., with her sister. Mrs, eJremiah Fields.
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Rutherford IT. Snow of Huntington avenue was down at the Westerly granite, quarry on business this week.
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2 Mrs. Bixby of Bliss place substitut-
 ed at Broadway school Thursday.
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CWr1tten Specially for The Bunetin.)
 In this world emergency, when everything normal has ceased to function and things moral, economi- cal, and things spiritual are standing on their heads, topsy- -turyy- -cally
 together end to;
 When two millions of young men who used to be active in the field of production are now withdrawn from 1t and arc being trained as cunningly as possible in the art of destruction;
 When governments which used to do their proper work and pay their necessary expenses for protection and
 maintenance and the fostering of inn now demanding a billion a month for waste and raVage;
 When the world, which had for so long been moving forward and looking upward. is suddenly whirled backward
 down its hardly won ascent and finds itself gazing aghaSt into the pit of horror over whose brink the maIef- cent forces of a worse than Apache savagery are seeking to force it; When every instinct of decent human nature and every teaching of ordinary experience and throb of the heart bids us resist to the last the onrush of the emergent friends;
 When in camp and city square, on field and kitchen, in factory and on the farm, and at markets every standard to which we have grown accustomed has disappeared, and all our wonted bearings are hidden and lost in the foggy welter of confusion-a con | fusion thrice confounded by the pitiful l effotus of incompetent amateurs to ride the whirlwind and direct the storm In this state of things, 1 --What should the patriotic and 1 hn1ast and fnraeirhted farmer. 6n0
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You and | don't want to be profiteers,

You and don't want to be profiteers. We are far from being such in spirit; we don't want to be such in act.
 In this complicated world, however, it isn't such a simple and easy Ghing to know just what course to steer, under all circumstances. We cannot always decide, off-hand on the first viewed phase of question We need to look behind it and all around it
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college, were her guests at her home on West Town street the first of the week.
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PATRIOT OR PRoFrrEER- WHICH?

self faced with the prospect, not only of no profit, but of an actual loss.
 What should he do, this time?
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There are farmers who are not bal.

There are farmers who are not pa triotic,-a few,-there are farmers who are not honest,-perhaps more than a few. There are farmers who are not foresighted-by far too many. (moreover, have once or twice thought that I had met freaks who weren't any one of the threei)
 To none of such am I talking or do want to talk, now or hereafter. The most of us are at least patriotic and honest, and there are whole lot who are foresighted, too.
 What should we of that sort do, say in regard to the prices of our products
 Should we take all we can get re- gardless of by whom offered, and re- gardless of actual value?
 On the other hand, should we sell our products at a loss, when the man ipulated markets refuse a renumera tive price?
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For example Of what mcan:-

\ neighhorinG farmer raises some potatoes. He has a. fair crop in 1916 and another fair cron il 1911. His 1916 crop cost him for interest, land rent. Tabor, fertilizer, seed, taxes fencing, bags, and all othar eaacul- able expenses 8 little oyer Y cents 2 bushel Allowing a profit of twenty per cent. a fair price wauid have been about & eents Q lrasi1el EIe s9l5 them, part fer consumption st g arS s2.5Q 2 b1shel ard rart (se!acted stoal> for seed E $4 9 bllshsl.
 This 4vss business" Admitted Now please think ever tte question for 7U1 eSnlf, lightira. t up with tboae three candles of patriotism, honeety and Tocesi2tt. and decide tcr Esn-rga:E upcn the qualify cf this part:ou5sr transaction
 Bus l hapevF got thrnurh viii. this farmer and his potatoes, yet. He also raised . crop in 1917 and has it stored for eaie. Owing to the tremendous in aresose in all sorts of ccstg frnra lard to horse feed, his 1sf? croa ccst him. i. e. wiil have cost him, when bagged and delivered, using tt.e game basis of ;-eckonins ss the year f1esore q trifle ever SIPS 6. !r7ze47el. To get twenty per cert. proSt ila must sell them at s150 Yesterday he told me that he could hardly rirn ther,l awav in> his market town; that $1 a 1ushel was the best offer he had and that for only very limited lot. He finds him
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Profiteers!

It is they who are making the high prices, in at least half the cases where such prices hurt worst.
 It doesn't seem to me that I have failed to notice in single issue Of my New York paper foil the last six weeks some report of this. that and the other big corporation declaring, a profit for 1917 of anywhere from fifty to five hundred per cent. greater than the year before.
 Profiteeringi
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Mr. and Mrs. Kelley from New York 9Iave been spending the winter with Mrs. Kellsy's parents. Mir. and Mrs. Edwin Fenner, of Taftville road
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chamber, and also to the secretary of the New London chamber.
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A western editor, writing of prof. teeEs5 recently described them as ''ths,s class which deliberately like ghouls feed upon a crippled society,"" fIe went on: "The profteering of sel- fishness must first be rooted out of our citizenship before. we can offer any united strength against the prof. ter. When we tire of praising the man who puts it over, who gets by without paying his due ipto the com mon toii, we El&lS:. r.,e. against the man and the institulicn who cap italize national emergencies.
 Tt resolves itself, after all in the individual. We will have the kind of citizens, the kind of patriots, the kind of Americans that we make of our seIyes''
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ii-ilaro are tWAa dianatr13aIIy and dnt2ao opposite theories of action in this lie One reads: Do the other feilozg' before he does you"
 The other reads: "Ali things what soever ye wopId that men should do to you, do ya even so to them
 raa profice.s..' iis taa fully blown flower cf that first .ge TIT. He regards number as the biggest number in the world s arithmetic. He puts his neighbors and his country into a second place, puts them there and keeps them there. If his own table runneth over with fat ness, the dogs may have what spills this time, but he will promptly order a bigger table for next meal, which will hold more.