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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-05
5000 John Smiths.

The claims and record Office of the
ministry of labor of Kew, England.
which is now dealing with millions Of
forms in connection with unemploy-
ment pay, has electrically driven ac-
counting and tabulating machinery.
Figures are transferred to special
cards by holes punched in certain po-
slticns and the cards are sorted by
machine into groups. These groups
then pass through machine which
prints the details from each card on
rolls Of paper, at the same time accu-
mulating the figures and producing a
total at any given point.
An alphabetical index. consisting of
looseleaf registers of all insured work
ers, contains 100000 names. Of
which thousands are identical. There
are 5000 John Smiths. 1000 John
Browns, 1000 William Browns, 1900
William Jones, 1000 John Macdonalds
and 1000 William Dovies.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-05
SPAN OF LIFE HEIGHTENED
Ne Doubt That the People Of Today
Live Longer Than Did Their
Ancestors.

When reading OF people who lived
long years ago and especially when
reading about the length Of their lives,
we are told that 10 the old days peo-
pie lived longer than they do now.
Some of the early historical records
speak OF single individuals who lived
hundreds of years. There Is great
doubt as to whether these statements
are founded on fact. In thinking about
this We must first take into considers.
ton that these records of long ago
were recorded at time when man
had no accurate idea of the actual
passage of long periods of time such
as a year. They did not have our cal
endar as basis for figuring tall.
Learned men now tell us that the act
ual age of men who lived at the time
these records of great ages were re-
corded probably lived shorter lives
than we do now, and that what they
recorded as period of one year was
probably a much shorter period than
one year.
It is true beyond the question OF a
doubt that the people Of today live
longer on an average than people who
lived ten, twenty or more years ago,
observes the Seattle Post-IntellIgencer.
In other words. the average period of
life has increased steadily. This is
due to the fact that we have taken
greater care Of our bodies; have i'm
proved the conditions in which we live,
and made them more sanitary; have
learned to fight and check and eradi-
cate diseases which only few years
ago we could not prevent people dying
of when they once contracted them,
and we know from the records which
we keep that actually people live long
err on the average today than only
few years ago. and 1t Is safe TO say
that they live longer now on the aver
age than at any time in the worlds his
tory. - fs
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-05
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers

The Bradford mill which has been
shut down for few days will reopen
Monday morning, July z.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. C. Reynolds of Troy
visited relatives in Old Bennington
Friday on their way to Manchester.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank C. Platts of
Orange, Mass. are spending a few
days in Bennington visiting relatives.
| VIM. X Sprague of Schenectady
spent the Fourth as the CUES ~ Mr..
and Mrs. Fred w. Spear at the Colon
| iai.
Forrest NJ. Parsons, formerly OF
Bennington and now employed in
Mt York city is spending q few days
in town.
D.; Joseph Dobinson OF Eas.
Orange, N. j., will be the preacher in
the Old First Church at Old Bennins-
ton tomorrow.
You'll see real riders, real fighting,
and real shooters in Hell Roarin
Reform" with Tom Mix at Harte The
atre today. Adv.
Services at Saint Peters church to-
morrow as usual. Holy communion at
1890 Holy communion sermon at 1880
and Evening Prayer at
Miss Helen G. Crathern, teacher Of
art in Detroit, Mich, announces the
opening Of summer classes for chill
dren in drawing and painting. First
class begins Tuesday, July s, from 10
to II. Applications should be made
at once. Adv.
The public is cordially invited to the
services of the First Baptist church.
w. G. Towart pastor. Church school
at 9.45 a. m Morning worship with
communion service at IL a. m. There
will be special union service at 1890
for the soldiers, sailors and their
friends. All those who have been in
any branch of service are cordially
invited to attend. IN
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-05
Fully Qualified.

They were arguing about qualihca-
tons for successful careers. and fa-
nous playwright. who was one OF the
party, maintained that the stage of.
fered the easiest opportunities for
beginning AS some doubt was thrown
on this claim. he produced letter
from a man who wished to be en-
gagged for his rev play. which was
about to be produced. The letter ran
as follows:
"Reyerend Sir: Wishing TO go on
the stage, would Ike to appear in
your play. Have been market gar
delier for some years, but having
gone bankrupt, have decided to take
Up acting the same requiring no cap
ital. am no longer young, but 8
feet In my stocking feet. Have
mastered book on elocution, and am
fond Of late hours."-Windsor.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-05
re IN Gamma

"But few short years ago, lay-dees
and gentlemen" said the side show
lecturer, In tones admirably adapted
for declamatory purposes, I'VE had
here, as our greatest living cu-ri-os-i-
tee, that hldeous human horror, the
wild man of the Everglades. who three
times day leaped upon gur-reat
inks of r-r-r-raw and re-e-e-eking
flesh and devoured them with terrible
ferocity and blood-curdling yells. He
was in due course succeeded by the
repulsive freak of nature you now see
before you-the bestial and bristly
bolshevik. He will not work, he
never battles, but day and night kicks
necessarily, and in the unintelligible
three-cornered language of his native
land screams denunciations of every
thing in existence. Probably year
after next he will be superseded by
the last pedestrian, white-eyed,
shuddering wretch who will leap 10
feet sidewise If you will make noise
like an auto horn. Kansas City Star.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-05
Standing Of the Clubs
THREE INJURED IN EXPLOSION
Accident in Machine Shops Of Central
Vermont Railroad

st. Adams, July Am oxygen reg
ulator on an aeetelyene-burning ma
chine exploded this afternoon in the
machine shops of the Central Vermont
railroad, seriously injuring Charles
Viens about the face, glass flying into
one eye. The glass sllso cut Albert
Mayo about. the fa5ie and Eugene
Richard on the face and hands. The
three men were taken to the Office Of
Dr. w. j. Upton.
The Wounds of Mayo md Richard
were soon dressed, but Viens had to
have stitches taken for cuts on his
face and also underwent slight oper-
alton on his eye. Ii is not thought
at the present time that he will lose
the sight of his eye. According to
the men who had been working on the
machine there had been much trouble
with 1t in the morning. The com
pressed air had been tested before the
accident and declared satisfactory.
Soon afterwards the gauges OF the tank
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-05
prImro.es Of Picardy.

Nature in her own way is looking
after the solitary war graves scat
tered throughout the shell-shattered
Picardy countryside, according to a
writer In the London Daily Chronicle.
Those that lie In the thrice-fought-over
ground between Albert and Conibles
are covered with early spring Grim
roses. In Lieramont the daffodlls are
blooming, and the brambles on the
graves in Bernafay wood are green
with new leaves. The lonely war
riors are to be gathered together in
the central cemeteries under the caro-
of the imperial, war graves commits
sion. The French government, in COM
pliment to the British soldier, has pur-
chased the necessary land and has
presented 1t for all time TO England.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-05
BY NsNaI Precedent.

It is a curious anomaly of the senior
service, says the London Daily News,
that an officer who attalns. as Lord
Jellicoe and Sir David Beutty have just
attained. the rank of admiral of the
feet, is required by precedent to retire
from active command. The rule may
have been designed to eliminate old
seadogs who had become too ancient
to bite. but it seems ssngularly foolish
to permit its application to men like
Jellicoe and Beatty. BY the unprece-
dented rapidity of his promotion, Sir
David has finished his sen career at
the age of forty-eight--iD the prime OF
his life. The army is free from this
senseless precedent, for the rank Of
field marshal-wlich is the military
equivalent to the rank of admiral OF
the fieet--was, of course, held during
the war by both Lord French and Sir
Douglas Haig.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-05
Where Allies Got Timber.

Timber was essential to military op.
eratlons. as carried on during the war
against the Huns. The chief war thea.
ter was northern France and timber
was available largely because France
had practiced forestry for generations.
One hundred years ago the south
western corner Of France, extending
from Bordeaux to the Pyrenees
mountains was almost as treeless MS
the prairie, and was fringed by sand
dunes which were constantly in move
ment, burying fields and houses and
even whole villages. Napoleon called
In engineers and foresters. These
men succeeded in holding the dunes In
pace by planting with maritime pine
and then they planted up the whole in.
terror of the region with the same tree.
During the war this region was The
largest source of lumber not only for
the French army, but for the British
and American armies as well.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-05
INFLUENZA RAvAeEs
Disease Nearly Wiped Out Eskimos
Last Winter.

st. Johns. n. F.. July "Details oil
the inroads made by influenza among
inhabitants of Eskimo settlements IN
II labrador last winter, and the dini-
cuty of disposing of the dead are fur
nished in reports from northern mis-
sionaries received by the colonial sec
rotary. They tell a story OF depopu-
lation referred to as another step
nearer the end of the Labrador Es-
kimo" and of terrible conditions IN
the wake of the plague.
Bishop Martin of the Moravian mis-
sions. writing from Hebron, said tnat
all of the 100 Eskimos in that settle.
ment became i'll and in week 80
died, leaving only eight children, nve
women and one man.
.eIn the mission house" he cintinu-
ed. I'VE all have been SICK 100 put
not so severely as the Esklmos. AL
the beginning of the epidemic the
bodies we're put into our small dead
house. but that was soon filed up ana
as there was nobody strong enough
TO remove the dead from the houses,
most of the Eskimo huts were hued
with bodies. The ID survivors found
refuge together in our house.
FOR five or six weeks we we're I'M
able to do any hard ~>2rk Our sit
nation was awful. Some men VINO
survived came from Saeglek to heip
us clean the houses and the setation.
After all the inhabitants OF some
houses died, the dogs broke into the
huts and ate some of the bodies
When they had done so they got very
vicious and dangerous. We killed the
dogs at the station tabout 1000 but
could not destroy them all. There
fore, the dogs and the graves had TO
be watched day and night.
AFTER much deliberation we de-
cided to bury the bodies in the sea.
BY sledge we carried the bodies on
the ice to very deep water, made
hole through the ice and buried them
there"
Reporting that 20 of the 800 inhaD-
itants of the district of Sandwich Bay
were victims of the plague, Rev. Hen
nv Gordon gave a similar account OF
suffering. He said the orphans had
been distributed among the different
settlements.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-05
LEARN FEW FACTS
Writer Criticizes Modern Teach
ing of History.
Important Happenings Recorded With.
out the Events Leading Up to
n Them Being Set Forth
Makes Heads Spin.

Take English history as it is taught
In. an English school. We begin with
Celtic Britain. Enter Caesar and a
Roman host. From where? We never
learn, III. G. Wells writes In the Satur-
day Evening post. Who is this Gaze
sar and why did he come? why did
he gol Why did the Romans not come
again for the better part of century?
Evidently something much more impor.
taht was going on elsewhere.
"A little why on In the story certain
Angles, Jutes and Snxons rush in---as
inexpllcably.a Whence? why? Later
come the Danes The history of Eng
land has the effect Of something going
on upon doormat In a passage out
side room full of events, with several
other doors. The door opens. the Nor
man kings rush out of the room, con-
Quer the country hastily. saw some
thing about some novelty of which we
have learned nothing hitherto, the Cru.
sades, and exit TO room again.
From which presently. King Richard
returns detected He has been fight
Ing the Snracens. Who are the Sara
Gems? We never learn. What be-
comes of themi We are never told.
So II goes on. The broad back of his
tory Is turned to England throughout.
It's face and hands are hidden, and we
make what we can of the wriggllng of
Its heels.
The American story is still more in
comprehensive. An innocent continent
Is suddenly inundated by Spanish, Por.
tuguese. French, Dutch and British,
who proceed ut once to pick UP the
thread. Of various confilcts-initiated
elsewhere. Someone called the pope is
seen TO be dividing the new continent
among the European powers. Colonies
are formed. What are colonies?
These colonies, In what is apparently a
strenuous attempt to simplify history,
break off from their unknown coun-
tries Of origin. A stream of immigra-
tion, begins from west and east. The
American mind establishes sort Of in
tellectual Monroe doctrine and declares
that America has no past, only a flu
ture. From which sublime dream 1t is
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-05
VOICE is MADE
LOUD AS CANNON
No Trick at All to Magnify
Sound Five Million
Times.
WIRELESS EXPERT TELLS HOW
Ticking of Watch Can Be AmpIifec
Until II Sounds Like Breakers
on an Ocean cliff-ln
Practical Use.

San Francisco.-A mans voice car
be made as loud as the lannon's roar
1t can be heard two or twenty miles
The ticking of a watch can be ampli.
fed until it sounds like breakers on an
ocean cliff.
ITS no trick at all to magnify
sound four or five million times, or In.
definitely" said Tom Lambert, wire.
less telephone engineer. IAN that is
needful is to connect n number OF
vacuum valves in multiple with Q
wireless receiving SET, and the thing is
done. At the first receiving contact
voice will be normal. Cut in one
vacuum valve and 1t is raised sever
times; thereafter II squares Itself
seven times: thereafter it squares 1t
self--seven times seven to forty-nins
for the next vacuum valve. and forty
nine times forty-nine for the next, ano
so on"
Il mean volume of sound, not pow.
er of transmission" explained Lam
bert. "In test recently a phonograph
was connected with an amplifier a,
midnight, and we were lifting 1t w
gradually to supply all San Francisco
with song and amusement, when the
police urged US to desist.
Grand Stand Hears Watch Tick.
an the stadium at Golden Gate park
the ticking of a watch was made audi
BILE all over the grand stand while an
athletic meet was In progress. Capt
Robert w. A. Brewer. an experiment.
err, moved of 1000 feet and spoke
quietly to his do. a..i tae dog couldn't
be held. wireless station which
am not permitted to name recently re.
celved telephoned message from Flu,
rope. and through its ampllfler startled
duck hunters in the marshes eight
miles away"
Mr.. Lambert exhibited one of the
vacuum valves. Its exterior resem
bled an ordinary 16-candle electric
light bulb. Through the glass, how.
ever, could be seen electric winding
that was dissimilar. Around fila
ment was wound convolutions of wire
called a grid" Above the grid was
an encircling metallic plate. The cur.
rent passed through each In the order
desciibed. The incoming wireless sig
nails travel down the aerial wire tc
the tuning set and then to the vacuum
valve, which Is "detector," or re-
ceiver.
Used TO Address Audiences.
For practical purposes the vacuum
valve has its use, as in warships,
where the wireless telephone speaks
Its message through horn TO several
officers instead of to one using ear
pieces. 1t can be availed Of to address
audiences.
The wireless telephone is wonder
fully extending the field developed by
the wireless telegraph. Any wireless
telegraph receiving set is equally good
for receiving telephoned messages
The transmitting instruments, Of
course, are different.
Every airplane possessed by Uncle
Sam and all United States warships
are equipped with wireless telephon.
apparatus. These sets on warships
are efficient at least 20 miles.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-05
STRICT ETIQUETTE IN CHINA
Matter Of Tea Drinking Thing Of
Much Importance In the Flowery
Republic.

The etiquette observed In tea drink
ing in China is very curious. If
lady asks you to drink tea with her
and especially II the tea be sweetened
you can count yourself as well re
ceived and much liked. If she does
not like you. the tea is bitter, and
report has II that In cases Of this sort
DRAWINGS are often used. After one
sip of such tea the unliked visitor
makes q prompt exit
When making call, II the servant
should bring in n cup Of tea there
Is no need to take any particular no.
tIce Of It, Allow the servant to place
It where he likes near you, and con-
tinue your conversation as though
nothing had happened II your bust
ness is pleasant and agreeable to the
mistress or the master of the house,
he or she will pass the beverage to
you; IL not. you are expected TO leave
Il untouched, otherwise you are likely
to have a quarrel on hand, and Chi
nese quarrel-either with man or
woman-is unpleasant.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-05
MAY GIVE ITALY COLONIES
Proposed Solution of Problem Being
Discussed in Paris.

Paris, July 1.-The proposed solll-
ton of the Italian problem being dis
cussed here, it is understood, contem
plates giving Italy certain colonial
possessions, probably in Africa, In
return for her support of the peace
conference decision in the Adriatic
settlement
The idea has been advanced that
either France or Great Britain might
make such concessions in Africa, and
this is being considered tentatively.
1t is impossible, however, to predict
what territory might be affected,
since it is generally admitted that
Great Britain and France would pre-
fer to make some other sacrifices.
Italy also, it is said, desires to ac-
quire right in Asia Minor, but it is
pointed out that the attitude of
Greece offer difficulties in that direc-
ton.
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First National Bank
Of North Bennington

presently reused to find something OF
unknown origin called European impe-
rlal!sm wrecking the world. What Is
this Imperialism? How did 1t begin?
The teaching of history in most other
countries Is hitter the same fashion.
Everywhere the tenchers present more
or TESS similar histories of passag es
and doormats Great events--the CRU
sades. the Reformation, the industrial
revolution-come 10 with bang and
go out with slam. leaving mo- clew.
leaving our poor heads spinning. Is 1t
any wonder II history falls back for a
little human touch upon childish anec-
dotes about Alfred and the cakes, the
peerless beauty of Mary Queen of
Scots, and King Charles and his span
tels? at
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-05
Government Inspector In Rochester
Praises aERUIT.A-TlVES".

80 North Union ST., Rochester, NY.
''For five long years, I was afflicted
with Stomach, Livey and kidney
Trouble, zvhieh developed into serious
Bladder TROUBLE. During that time,
am safe in saying tried over 30
different remedies without relief.
I saw a testimonial of, i think, a
Montreal man about eFruit-a-tives'
and concluded to make one more
trial. BY the time tie sample bot
vas .JiafShed 1 found quite an i'm,
proyement and when l had finished
a50c. box, there was grand improve.
ment far beyond my expectations.
To make long story short, /
believe "Fruit-a-tiyes" or Fruit Liver
Tablets the best Stomach, Liver and
Bladder Medicine the world has ever
produced". B-1e.et ~ 1Iha
r. B. O'FLYNN,
Government Concrete Inspector.
SOC. a box. 6 for $3.50, trial size 25c-
at dealers or from FRUTT-A.TIVES
Limited, OGDENSBURG. N. Y.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-05
MARKET PRICE FOR SILVER
Government Assay Offices Receive
p order From Mint Director

Washington, July 2.-Government
assay offices have been instructed by
Director of the Mint Baker to pay
market prices hereafter for silver
found in gold bullion purchased by
the offices. Before July the gov
eminent paid dollar an ounce for
such silver, although the open market
rate rose as high as s1.14 after the
embargo was lifted.
The government is not in the mar
ket for silver at present, but buys all
the silver separated in refining gold.
The market rate was not paid hither-
to as twas desired to wait until the
new fiscal year began.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-05
scotiand,s River System.

II there be one place north of the
Tweed where, ut single glance, one
may view and comprehend the chief
river system of Scotland Stirling Is
that place. From this point one notes
the main streams, the affiuents. and
the gathering of the waters. which
make the Clyde. the Forth and the
Tay. He can then realize how great
and important in the political and
economic history OF Scotland has been
that great central valley, which
stretches from the North sea to the
waters of the Atlantic Ocean.-Wil-
liam Elliot Griffis. in Bonnie Scot
land"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-05
Hotel Chateau Thierry.

There is said to be plot on foot for
large Amerlcan-managed hdfel Mt
Chateau Thierry. If 1t is built small
bet might be placed that the services
of German-spealing clerk will not be
required there on the opening day.
Their memories OF that section will
not be so keenly pleasurable that Ger
mans will return there in great num-
bers.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-05
NATIONAL LEAGUE

Morning
Brooklyn z. Boston 8.
New York g.. Philadelphia 1.
Chicago z, Pittsburg 3
Cincinnati 4, st. Louis 8, az IN
nings.)
Aftern0tn aH
Boston 5, Brooklyn 2.
Chicago 4, Pittsburg T.
New York 8, Philadelphia 3.
Cincinnati 4 st Louis 2.
c&,ratnr NJ &ha C!uhe.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-05
BASEBALL RESULTS
Scores of Yesterdays Games and
Standing of Clubs.

AMERICAN LEAGUE
Morning
Boston Q. Philadelphia 2.
New York 8. Washington 2.
Cleveland 9, st. Louis 4.
Chicago s, Detroit l.
Afternoon
Chicago 2 Detroit /
New York 6, Washington
Boston 3, Philadelphia 6.
Cleveland IL, st. Louis /.
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A Wonderful Investment
A Savings Account Which
Pays 100

Is what we offer all who deposit in our savings
department in fact we offer even more, because
we pay taxes on accounts and will accent de-
posts in any amount.
And one of the best things about savings
count which differs from many investments, is
the fact that the money is always yours-and
when you need it, you may secure all of it when
you want it. not one-half of it, but all of it.
The services which offered by this bank and
the high rate of interest paid make a savings ac-
count an attractive proposition for all who live
in this vicinity or even many miles from here
And those who live in other towns, will find
give PROM. attention to all banking which is done
by mail and extend to all out of town depostors,
the same services which extended at the bank
in North Bennington
First National Bank