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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-04
polnn Nicely.

81 hear you have new lady clerk"
yep"
"Ilow is she doing in The Officer"
Doing very we'll Half the clerks
seem TO be willing to do her work for
her. Louisville COurIer-Journal
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-04
enonaes a.ranleIy coIoleI-

tiio scarlet sponge have been
picked 90 IL Lake fiwa, Japan. The
authorities of tie lake laboratory az
0tsa a'aehcd @ She Kyoto Imperial
ulSJoTsily are quoted as saying that
similar sponses nave never been dis.
covered anywhere in the world.
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RESEMBLANCE.

my dear," said Mr.. X. as he looked at
his wife's purchases, "you remind me
Of the Crock slave"
'How s0T"
You were sold at auctlon."- ~
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-04
Dome put up YOUR umbrella

until 1t rains, is SOUND advice. Don't
put insurance off until YOU are unin-
surable is our advice. Act here and
noW.. National Life ms. Co., of Vt.
tMutual) Earle s. Kinsley, General
Agent, Mead Building, Rutland, VT.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-04

Automobile manufacturers have
completed plans to make 1919 the
biggest year in the history Of the bust
ness" In addition to their new output
they will have on hand $4,000 passen-
ger cars and trucks the orders for
which were cancelled by the govern.
ment on the signing Of the armlstice.
There Will be enough cars to go
around III the. wheat states moderate
thar demands llh IA
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-04

Take LAXATIVE BROMo oUININE
(Tablets.) II stops the Cough and
Headache and works of the Cold. Il.
w. GROVES signature on each box.
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Correct Your Mistakes.

II is only an error in Judgment 10
make mistake, but 1t shows inlrm,
ity of character to adhere to it when
discovered.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-04
maitcr Y dmsnae lnlerest S the

H"t'cr iniei3s tsleres' y the
r so OF the colleges and universe
sles AZ ..e,s c9qgptry, from military con
trfl Would seem to be easy. bat
r1h til RECEPTION Of Yale, the colleges
anil universities of the country have
hcRn organized on q basis completely
military and cannot in consequences
tnfn suddenly from contracts with
their students which are approved by
the government, says New Haven Jour
nal.Courier. Yale, by having provided
that her youpgsmep must have passed
the entrance, examination before be-
ing indicted into the service, is alone
able to be released from a government
partnership without serious embarrass-
nent. Generally speaking, however,
the return to q peace basis is hound to
he long and tedious.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-10
FRANCE x TO
PUT LEAGUE FIRST
BY CHARLES A. SELDEN
Special Cable to Erening Public Ledger
Copyright. 1913. BY the ". Y. Times Co.

Paris. Jan. 3 'delayed).
President Wilson has won his first
great point in the controversies Of the
preliminary Peace Conference. and
thereby the league of nations is assured.
According to my information this aft
ernoo from a most authentic French
source. it is now agreed by France that
the formal adoption of the principles OF
the league will be made the first bust
ness OF the conference and that the sub.
sequent proceedings will be according to
those principles. In that announcement
you can hear the echo OF all the cheers
and shouts Of viva Wilson - with
which the streets OF cities and towns I'm
England. France and Italy have re.
sounded for the last three weeks,
The American President first won tho
peoples Of these European nations. and
now it would seem he has won the GOV.
ernments.
This agreement TO consider the League
Of nations at all before the terms of a
dictated peace TO Germany have been
fixed Is a great concession on the par,
of the French Government. As I ca bled
on December IS. the French plan was
to dictate peace to Germany. Hungary.
Bulgaria and Turkey and fix the boun-
daries of those countries and arrange
indemnities before considering the league
of nations. which was to be a sort OF
afterthought. to he taken up by a sub
sequent general congress of nations.
That sequence of events has been OBJ
posed by America and America wins.
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counter between the Government ant
the enemy.
Fighting Soon Renewed
Your correspondent described In q
previous dispatch how a sudden lull in.
duced him to descend to the battlefield
thinking that all was over. as. in fact,
the soldiers holding the entrance to the
subway on Mauerstrasse assured Him,
Hardly had this report been sent to the
telegraph station when suddenly the
furious fire Of field guns and rifles again
rowne every other note In the wide
quare
the thunder OF the gum came from
the direction Of the Chancellor's palace.
but the rife fire seemed to emanate
from the direction of Leipzigerstrasse.
Get u OF the way, you civilians ~
shouted the soldiers, and I hustled with
a few other men down Mauerstrasse to-
ward Inter den Linden.
Their from that direction, too. shots
were fred. n to escap being caught
between two fires we fed into a dark
doorway. Here we remained for a long
time. Now and then the hre would
calm down a little, when suddenly the
boom OF that big gun at the Chancel-
lor's palace gave the sign for a renewal
OF the hellish concert.
Some time about 8 o'clock we decided
10 run for our lives. and we reached the
Jaegerstrasse and safety with an effort
perhaps quite unnecessary. because the
a now become ~desultory.
Like all other places in the vicinity,
even the dance halls Astounding here. my
friendly postoffice had closed, and thus
the further transmission of news became
temporarily impossible.
Earlier In the afternoon there had been
a shooting ARRAY on Leipzigerstrasse. be-
tween the Herrenhause and wertheim's
department stores. There was a bat
TALON Of Spartacans stopping there pre-
paratory to an attack on the War Of
flce. A procession of regular Social
Democrats en- route 10 wilhelm Platz
derisive remarks with the
S~partacans. whereupon the latter sud
denly began to fire.
Score Killed and Founded
The street as densely crowded with
and a fearful panic ensued.
women shrieking and fainting and peo-
pie running heedlessly hither and thither.
the fire ceased in a few sec
onds, but there were some twenty dead
ana wounded lying in the streets.
Afterward the Spartacans managed to
get inside the War ONCE but toward Z
o'clock soldiers began to shoot at the
WINDOWS. where the S~partacans were
isibl Soon afterward the latter
the white flag and surrendered
'n condition that twenty Of their men
should occupy the building, together with
he soldiers. which vas acceded to in
'rder to avoid further biuodshed.
\ similar shooting ARRAY occurred
II the corner of Inter den Linden and
Triedrichstrasse. where the Spartacans
net "Scheidemen.' the plural Of the
anne Of thai leader being applied by the
to all OF their antagonists.
parties were armed. the S~partacans
'pened fire n several "Scheidemen''
eplied.
The result was two dead and five
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-10

gates to be given the smaller powers.
Most of those which declared war on
the Central Empires will have three
These nations are Greece. Serbia, Portu-
gal, Ruinania, Brasil and China. Poland
and Czecho-Siovakia will have two
apiece. Countries which simply broke
rels with either Of the Central
Powers will have one delegate.
The return OF Mr.. wilson to the
United States will reduce the American
delegation to four. but II was explained
today that delegations will vote as units
and that tho President never had in.
tended to sit continuously at the peace
table.
Up to the present all the progress
that has been made has been in Presi-
dent Wilson's conferences with French.
British and Italian statesmen. The de-
tailed conclusions rachel at these con-
ferences are probably known only to
the participants. The President. for
his part. is said TO have felt that It was
not prudent 10 disclose entirely what
went on. although he intends that the
proceedings will go on in the way OF
open diplomacy when he feels Il Is safe
TO lift the curtain and let the world
look at the performance.
The most that can be said OF the
conferences so far he'd by Mr.. Wilson
is that they nave approached only broad
principles. The conversations about TO
begin will probably take on the nature
of a round table, at which the progress
has been made with individual
will be brought into the dis
cussion and general agreements sought.
The opinion most generally expressed
here is that IL the conferences durinG
the next six weeks establish unanimity
or purpose as TO the freedom of the
the reduction of ana
the actual terms of peace to be imposed
the Central Powers a great deal
VIII have been accomplished.
French Name Envoy.
Announcement OF the French delega-
ion 20 the Peace Congress, in addition
% bringing a distinguished array OF
french statesmen into the arena OF the
Peace Congress, has begun to give def
liteness to the delegations OF the great
of which the American delega-
ION has been by itself up TO the present
line.
The personnel OF the French DELEGATION
$ recognized as exceptionally strong,
'ombining the political, diplomatic.
49, ttoiloIiIlC dIlu 1nllltdTy sdkdtlly
Il France. The appointment of Jules
'ambon Is particularly gratifying TO the
delegation. owing to his inti-
knowledge OF and sympathy with
AFFAIRS resulting from his long
as French ambassador in wash
ngton.
NJ, Cambon, with Foreign Minister
'ichon. will represent the diplomatic
treneth of the delegation. Louis Klotz.
'esides being Minister OF Finance. is rec
'gnized as the financial leader Of the
french Parliament. Captain Tardieu
furnishes the economic authority and Is
with both French and American
conditions.
Marshal Foch. it is announced. will
be a member Of the peace con-
as the commander-in-chief of the
lllied armies. The technical representa-
Ives of the French Government probably
Fill include Leon Bourgeois. the author
y on the subject Of a society of nations.
'aul Dutasta, French ambassador TO
will be secretary of the
'rench delegation TO the peace confer
nee.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-10
By the Associated Press

New York, Jan. 10.-With harbor
operations virtually at a ~standstill and
the city facing the possibility OF reach
ing the hunger point In the next forty
eight hours as a consequence, the gem
eral strike committee of the Marine
Workers Afiliation planned to meet to-
day TO take action upon the request OF
A. II. Smith, regional railroad director.
for a forty-eight hour armistice."
Mr.. Smith submitted his request to
the strikers representatives at a con-
ference last night and told them that
IL It was granted the strike could be
settled across the table" After the
meeting the mems representatives as
serted that Mr.. smiths proposition TO
them was favorable" but nom would
predict what action the general strike
committee might take upon 1t.
Railroad officials today were devoting
their efforts to rerouting food for the
city from points in New Jersey to points
in New York State from where it car
be brought here by train. The food
situation was described as more critical
than even the most p~essimistic can
realize" in "a statement issued late last
night from the Office of Mr.. Smith. II
declared that the lives OF thousands
of persons in the greater city depended
upon the success of the efforts to re-
route food so urgently needed.
Though New York did not receive any
coal yesterday and the thermometer was
dropping toward the zero point today.
officials Of large coal firms expressed the
opinion that there was no immediate
danger of a coal famine, They esti-
mated that there was at least a two
weeks supply of fuel stored in the clty's
bins.
The Hudson tubes again were used by
thousands of persons from New Jersey
as the only means of reaching their work
here, but from staten Island the city
officials expected to operate at least one
of it's large ferry boats. 4 few trips
we're made last night when crews from
the marine department of the police
force manned a boat.
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spondent was watching this crowd nc
fewer than seven wounded and one dead
man were carried past him through
M%ohrenstrasse alone. Perhaps NOBODY
will ever know the exact number OF cas-
ualties that have occurred here.
The dead man was a sailor who tried
to assault people who were answering
the S~partacan stump speaker with cries
of Down with Liebknecht The sailor
got the worst Of It, and in the shufne
fell on his own hand grenades, which
exploded. killing him.
II is dark now, but the multitude IN
front OF the Chancellor's palace shows
no inclination to disperse. A few min
utes ago there was another shooting
ARRAY in front OF the Kaiserhof. People
at first fed, the returned and set upon
the offenders. Some half dozen wounded
men are being carried of on hand was-
ons.
The EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER corre-
spondent can watch the whole square
from a corner room of the kaiserhof. IL
is very dark now, but still h crowd re-
mains flooding about. listening to i'm
promptu speeches.
There is a rumor that several regi-
ments are en- route from Potsdam. Now
and then there Is a partial panic, people
rushing to the entrance Of the subway
and trying to force open the doors OF
houses.
Correspondent Is wounded
! hear that shortly before l arrived at
tho (saptra1 ,.atayrap nh pffica the assistant
correspondent of the United Press, Hans
Graudenz, was wounded on the foot by
a han grenade. II seems that when
Graudenz left the building the besieging
Independents threw a bomb as the door
opened, hoping to gain an entrance In
the panic thus created. The officials
however, were quick to lock the door.
Graudenz was the only victim.
As I hear by telephone, there is also
a large crowd In front of police head
quarters on the Alexander Platz, where
there has been much promiscuous shoot
ing n throwing Of hand g%refades. The
building Is crowded with 'Eichhorn's
men. probably 5000 strong.
Enormous stores of arms and ammu-
milton are said to have been accumulated
Inside. There are constant shouts for
Eichhorn, and also shouts "Nieder init
Eichhorn !" ("Down with Eichhorn ~.
Earlier in the day your correspondent
Interviewed several orderlies coming from
police headquarters, who ave the i'm
preston that they would not stand a
serious attack.
OF all the afternoon papers Die Frei-
heit alone appeared, the compositors and
other workmen of all other papers not
by the Spartacans being on
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Peace Base Only
Is Possible NOU
Continued from PAGE One

delay the working OF "group-plau" o n
ferences by which the principal bellig-
erents expect to thresh out points with
interested neutrals, nonb~elligerents or
minor nations engaged in the war and
reduce the results to memoranda which
are to go to the Peace Congress for in
clusion in the final settlement.
President Wilson'S feeling, OF coming
TO Europe as early as he did. was that
all the Entente Governments had made
their preparations to get down to talking
peace. II is not an overstatement of
The case to say that AIR. Wilson and
the American commissioners have been
disappointed in meeting with delays.
Various elements are recognized by dip
lomatS here "a reasons for deferrlng
tn s'"'i toward peace. hut II seems
l''IJ 'Nt, The influence Of the United
80 80 hn -. rtcd for steps.
which, without further delay, will per,
%. ,r' business of returning
TIL world t0 = y, ace basis.
The American delegates are UNDER
stood to feel very strongly that unless
plans are made to permit the activities
of peace TO be resumed i'm warning coun-
tries, the rehabilitation Of their armies
may bring unwelcome problems.
II Is probable that there will be eighty
delegates at the Peace Congress, il the
program presented to the delegates by
HI French Government is approved by
the supreme council. There will. in ad-
dition. be extra delegates from most of
the nations represented. These will be
called into the congress when special
subjects pom which they are experts are
under consideration.
II is probable that Lord Harding.
former viceroy of India Sir Louis Nal
let, British ambassador to Turkey, and
Sir Esme W. Howard. British minister
to Switzerland, will appear for Great
Britain as extra delegates. Bernard
Baruch, Vance Mccormick and other
specialists will be called upou by the
United States peace commission.
Changes in the plans hitherto con-
sidered were suggested today. They con-
cerned principally the number OF dele
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-10
PLEADS ~SELF.DEFE\SF,

York. Pa. Jan. 10-William II. Ober-
dick. on trial In the local court for the
murder of William Myers. took the
stand Yesterday and sworc that lie killed
his victim in self-defense. He alleged
hat Myers was the aggressor and that
in a tussle his revolver accidentally went
off, He testified that Myers repeatedly
assaulted him.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-10

wounded. Stray bullets shattered win
dows In the neiGhboring hotels.
The S~partacans also fired on the build
Ing Of the general railway management
which was only weakly defended. ant
took II. An attempt to seise the Cit,
Hall Of ~schoenberg was repulsed BY
armed citisens. Here, too. q numbe oil
Casualties were recorded.
Fierce battles were fought 1t several
barracks. At the pioneers barracks the
"Scheidemen" came out victorious. the
casualties being fifteen dead and many
wounded. This terror lasted until about
II o'clock at night, q heavy rain settins
In having terminated II thus early. ,
OF the shooting in the prominent
streets after dark last night the worst
was In Inter den Linden. walking down
that street about 9 p. m. your corre-
spondent noticed q large number OF per-
IONS proceeding toward Friedrichstrasse.
, In the darkness II was impossible to
recognise Of what sort they were.
Fight On Untsr den Linden
There was some shouting. first "Hoch /!
Hoch = then "Nieder! Niederl" Sud-
denly a furious fusillade opened on the
people. who ran for their lives In all
directions. The correspondent just man.
aged to reach one Of the large monu-
ments, behind which he hid with fifty
others. Bullets were striking the ain
drenched asphalt pavement on all sides.
Many persons dropped in, trying to
reach safety. With the fusillade min
gled the boom Of large guns. Nobody
could say where the FIRE came from nor
what caused It. After about ten min
utes some Of us ran for the side streets.
Just then firing began near the royal
stables.
At the Brandenburg gate large guns
have been put In position by the low
ernment troops for the protection of sew
eral regiments en- route from Dobertz to
Berlin. who may be expected any min
ute.
s%pondent gathers that there has been
heavy fighting at the Brandsnburg gate
and the Cieses-alle all the afternoon.
Large guns rave also been placed in
position at the corner Of Inter den Linz
den and F'riedrichstrasse.
The Central Telegraph Office. where I
am wiring, is nlled with soldiers, and
there Is a terrible noise. They are pre-
pairing for a mooted attack by the Spar
tacans.
January AS this evening wears on
the situation is getting more complicated
thar ever. Nobody seems to know who
is friend and who Is foe
This much. however. Is certain: the
Of 0 10000 assembled in the
Wilhelm Plata in front Of the Chancel-
lor's palace is largely pro-government.
They are waiting there to aid in ward
ing off any further attempts by the
Spartacans and Independents to seize the
government.
Fists and Hand Grenades
There are. however. many %Spartacans
the crowds who will now and then
start an argument. and when they get
the worst OF 1t will use their fists II
have not the desired effect.
Hand grenades are thrown and revolvers
are used but so dense is the crowd that !
mn
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-10
PRESIDENT
TO END STRIKE
Chief Magistrates A i d
Sought by Cable to Com
pose N. Y. Situation
FOOD PROBLEM SERIOUS
Fuel Supply on Hand May
Last Two Weeks-48.H Hour
Truce Requested
By the Associated Press

Washington, Jan. 10.-President Will
sons influence TO compose the strike
situation in New York is expected to
he cxerted today. lie has been Informed
by cable OF the situation and an early
reply from him is expectedS
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1919-03-27
APT DESCRIPTION OF PASTOR
Child's Characterization Well Drawn,
Though Possibly Net Flattering
to the Good Man.

Little Caroline and her grandmother
went to church one Sunday morning
recently. Ii had been some time since
the small lady had attended and things
and faces were new and strange.
After returning home she sat in a
quiet study.
"What are you thinking Of, dear?"
grandma asked.
"Who was that fluffy man?" WAS the
reply.
"What man, pet? do not know
which one you mean"
"That man, ! mean" Caroline said
with an indignant frown.
Il can't tell, dear, which one that
Is"
well" said little Caroline. evident
ly fully disgusted, 81 mean the duffy
man that talks while we keep still"
The pastor happened TO he Il rather
short, stout man with good supply
Of hair and this was her unusual way
of describing him.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1919-03-27
TO COMBAT ONION DISEASES
Pennsylvania Growers Preparing to
Control Ailments as Result OF
Two Demonstrations.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.l
Onion growers In many sections OF
Pennsylvania are preparing TO com
bat onion diseases this year as n re-
suit of onion-smut control demonstra-
tions held in the state last season.
The treatment consisted in the appli-
cation by means of drip attachment
on the seeder, of fOrmalin solution
Zone pint TO sixteen gallons) to the
seeds after they are dropped in the
furrow and before they are covered.
On plot treated for onion smut the
yield was at the rate of $50 bushels
an acre, and on the untreated 1t was
only 800 bushels. The increase as
a result Of treatment was 96 per cent,
and the cost was only $40 an acre.
In the other demonstration mentioned
in the report the yield on the treated
plot was at the rate of APO bushels
an acre, and on the untreated only
$50 bushels, the increase being 133
per cent, and the cost an acre $40.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1919-03-27
SELLING FUEL WOOD
BY WEIGHT Is URGED
Heating Value Depends Upon
Weight and Not Upon Bulk.
BY Turning to Wood Fuel Supply
Would Be Conserved and Transport
taton Relieved-Woodlan
Would Be Improved.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture)
Wood for fuel should be sold by
weight instead of by cord measure.
for the heating value depends not upon
the bulk of the wood hut upon its
weight. A pound of dry wood of one
species has about as much heating
value as pound of any other spe-
cies. hut two cords may vary 100 per
cent in their value for heating.
1t is the custom TO sell hard woods
and soft woods ut slightly different
prices because of differences i'm heat
ing values. This is only II superficial
classification, however, as two species
OF hard woods may have heating
values widely different. Where hard
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1919-03-27
HONEY WILL REPLACE SUGAR
shortage Problem Can Be Solved by
Raising More Bees-LittIe
Attention Needed.

The sugar shortage has caused much
thought TO he taken as to how we may
overcome this difficulty and SO far the
best suggestion seems to be the gen.
ernl one of raising more bees and get
ting more honey. 1t Is said that honey
can be used in most recipes where
sughr Is called for, and 1t is claimed
that the care of bees Is less work than
any other. chore connected with the
Farm