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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-05-08
FLIGHT ACROSS
ATLANTIC WAS
BEGUN TO-DAY
Three Navy Curtiss Hydroplan-
es On Way to Halifax
LEFT ROCKAWAY AT TEN
Motors Working Perfectly - Total
Length Of Journey Is to Be
1925 Miles

New York, May S.-The first trans
Atlantic fight was begun to-day when
three Navy Curtiss) Hydroplanes
left the government air station at
Rockaway at 10 this forenoon ON the
first leg of the journey which is from
Rockaway to Halifax, distance of
$40 miles.
The N c with commander Towers,
chief of the expedition, was first off.
The N c l and followed. The
planes were escorted to sea by squad
ron navy scout planes. They should
reach Halifax before night fall
Thence the route run 460 miles to
Trepassy, to Azores, to Portugal, and
to Plymouth England, making a total
of 1926 nautical miles. The escort
ing scout planes turned back three
miles from Rockaway and the three
transatlantic fliers sped away on
their great adventure. The newton
ed roar of their huge motors assured
the officers they were working per-
fectly.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-05-08

Arrangements Begun for Pre-
sentatiOn of Peace Terms
TO BE 100000 CROWNS
Provision to Be Made for Dividing
Austria's Pre-War Debt Among
New States

Paris, May S.-The Council of Four
began today to arrange program for
presentation of peace terms to the
Austrian, Hungarian and Bulgarian
delegates. The Austrian treaty has
begun to take form.
1t appears that instead Of Germany
being required to pay the entire in
demnity demanded by the allies. a
large sum will be demanded of Aus
tria, estimated at five billion crowns
The indemnity provision and delimi'
nation of frontiers of the new state
will be the main features of the treaty
A provision is to be made for divid
ing Austria's pre-war debt among new
states formed OF territory formerly
embraced in the empire.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-05-08
TROUBLE IN CHINA
Result Of Decisions Of Council OF
Three. ig t4fttk

Paris, May SERIOUS trouble has
broken out in China as a result of the
decision Of the Council of Three with
regard to Shantung and Kao-Chau,
according to news received in author
itative circles here.
In riots in Peking the house OF
Tsao Yu.Lin. minister of communica-
tons, who is friendly to Japan, was
burned.
Paris, May S.-American minister
Reinsch at Peking has informed Sec
retary Lansing that all wire communi-
cations out of Peklng have been cut
except one Siberian wire.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-05-08
ATTITUDE Of
GERMANS WAS
REAL INSULT
Spokesman for Delegates Did
Not Rise While Speaking
INTOLERABLE ARROGANCE
Premier Massey Said Germans Were
More Impudent And Arrogant
Than Anything | Ever Met"

London, May 7.--After the Versail-
les conference today, Premier Hughes
OF Augtralia, according to Reuters
said The attitude of Count Won
Brockdorff Rantzau was an intoler-
able insult to the conference; for al
though Clemenceau spoke standing,
the German spokesman did not rise
while making his address. DESPITE
their intollerable arrogance. this has
been day of humiliation for the Ger
mans which We could see entered
their souls.
Premier Massey of New Zealand
said; "The Germans were more impu-
dent and arrogant than anything
have ever met"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-05-08

Paris, May 1S.-Germany has not
yet submitted any communication re-
garding the peace treaty. All eX-
changes between the delegates and
the home government being secret.
A copy Of the treaty is we'll enroute to
Berlin. A German courier left at 9
last night bearing It with Won Brock
dorffs first report OF the negotiations.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-05-08
Cut This Quit Is Worth Money

Don't Miss This. Cut out this slip,
enclose with &c and mail II to Foley
4 Co.. 2S35 Sheffield Ave, Chicago,
Ill. writing your name and address
clearly You will receive in return
trial package containing Foley's Hon.
oy and Tar Compound, for coughs,
colds and Group; Foley Kidney Pills
for pain in sides and back; rheuma.
tism, backaohc, kidney and bladder
ailments; and Foley Cathartio Tab
let's, a wholesome and thoroughly
cleansing cathartic, for constipation.
biiousness. headache and sluggish
bowels. Sold Everywhere.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-05-08
WEATHER FORECAST

,f Cloudy tonight probably followed
by rain in early morning and on Fri
day. Cooler in south portion tonight
Probably frost in extreme north por'
tion tonight.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-05-08
PROTEST MADE
National Liquor Dealers Association
Fight Order.

Atlantic City, May S.-A protest to
President Wilson against the enforce
ment of the July / prohibition execu-
tive order has been adopted by the
National Liquor dealers association
It requests suspension of the order
which would add two million to the
unemployed army
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-05-08
MOST DELEGATES REMAIN
Some Of Germans viii Go TO Consult
Their Government

Paris, May SIT is intimated that
two or three German peace delegates
will return to Germany to consult
their government, and that the others
will remain at Versailles.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-05-08

Newport May S.-The naval Radio
station is in constant communication
with the naval fiiers passing along
the New England coast. The flyers
reported the machines working salts
factorily, making good progress.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-05-08

New York, May S.--Each seaplane
carried six men which included the
commander, navigator, two pilots, en-
gineer and reserve pilot. The reserve
pilots will only go to New Foundland.
The planes weighed twenty-eight hun
dred pounds with a full load. From
the time the planes rose from Jamaica
Bay they viii not rest on land until
they reach the other side, barring ac.
ciden,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-05-08
KERENZKY IN PARIS
Former Russian Premier Does Not
Join Peace Circles.

Paris, May S.-Alexander Kerenz-
ky, former Russian Premier, is in
Paris, it became known today. He
has not, however, made his appear
ance in the peace conference circles.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-05-08
U. S. MANDATORY FOR ARMENIA
President to Submit the Matter to
Congress

Paris, May Sit is expected the
United States will be asked to be-
come mandatory for Armenia Indi-
cations are that the President will
submit the matter to congress.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-05-08

Woods Hole. Mass, May S.-The
naval fiers passed over Naushon
island at 1850 close together, flying
high. I dd4i1Ti
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-05-08
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

WANTED--Several acres land, some
tillable some woods, good water, near
Bennington ON trolley road TO North
Adams. suitable for camp. Address II.
f. Bailey Cambridge n. Y 95t2'
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-05-08
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Subscriptions Announced:
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North Bennington has been as
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North Bennington statement is as
follows:
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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-05-08

FOR SALE-Early Canadian field
corn the only safe kind to raise in
per cent $3.50 per peck 5. r.. Sher-
man, tel. 1882. 9it6
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-05-08

WANTED-By one person. or 3
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-27

Henry Watterson, in the Louisville Cour-
 ier-Journal.
 YAM well acquainted with the assassins l| of history Of those that slew Caesar and between Ravesac. who did the busi- ness for Henry of Navarro, and Booth and Guiteau, my D familiar knowledge seems amost at first hand. One night at Chamberlains in Washington. George Corkhiu, the district attorney who was prosecuting the murderer of Garfield, said to me: You will never fully under stand this case until you have sat by me through one days proceedings in court Next day l did this.
 Never have I passed five hours in a theatre so filled with thrills. I occupied a seat betwixt Corkhill and Scovalli, Guiteau's brother-in-law and voluntary attorney | say voluntary because from the first Guiteau rejected him and vilely abused him, vociferously insisting upon being his own lawyer.
 From the moment Guiteau entered the trial room it was theatrical eXtrava- ganza He was in irons, sandwiched be- tween two deputy sheriffs, came in shouting like madman, and began at once railing at the judge, the jury and the audience. A very necessary rule had
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-27
GROWTH OF THE "ErTEs.

From the New York Globe.
 Hereafter the use of the term yeo- woman and yeomanette to designate young women in the naval reserve ser vice is taboo, according to an official order from Rear Admiral Victor Blue. chief of the bureau of navigation
 In the order of the rear admiral lies the germ of an idea which may be used to good effect in the official designa- tion of women engaged in other fields of work. The "ette" has grown re- gently to be altogether too common. "Suffragette," to be sure. is of long standing, but has lost none of it's im- plication of slur and islander. Then there is the "farmerette" and the "con- ductorette" and the "yeomanette." until it seems that every dignified and nec- essary occupation into which women have entered of late has been robbed of something of it's inherent dignity bv this insistent addition of the suffsx s'ette."
 The only, wonder is that we have not "actorettes'' and "teacherettes" and sswrfterettes" and ''singerettes"- and "attorneyettes" and "reporterettes.' In all of these professions women hay proved themselves capable. and in ;h'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-27
CASTLE MADE l0o FLIGHTS

From ENefyDody s.
 Irene Castle, whose memories of her dancer aviator husband are appearing in Everybodys, thus briefly summarizes his military career in the February
 issue:
 The press-clipping you sent me was a lot of rot. I'm not attached to the French army, and I'm no hero. I've done good work here, they say, and have made about 100 flights over the German lines. I have led many bombing attacks, but that is no more than heaps of other pilots have done
 That is the way in which Lieut.. Yer
 non Castle (afterward captain) described hio experiences as an aviatsr. In reality his work began at Newport News, Va, where he was first trained. He then went i to a number of flying schools in England and subsequently, had considerable ex- perience in France. He was sent back as
 an instructor to the Royal Flying corps {; at Camp Mohawk, Desoronto. Can. Witf
 the Royal Flying corps he went to win ter quarters at Camp Denbrooke, Tex. where he was killed in the attempt te
 avoid collision with another machine l which rose just in front of him. IT France he was awarded the Croix q, Guerre." s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-27

Hon. Chauncey M Depew, in LesAe's.
 TIT was 30 years ago at hotel at II salzburg. in Austria One day 1t e was announced with great excite ment in the hotel that the old German Emperor was approaching. Soon he came in, accompanied by his staff and the present ex-Emperor, then a young man. I had an opportunity of talking to the staff and of seeing the young man.
 Two days afterward the major-domo came to me and said, "The Emperor is leaving today. There are more than 200 English in this hotel and they are all on the upper landing. each one with bouquet and a spokesman with an ad- dress waiting for the Emperor to come down so they can greet him..
 There was only one other American family in this hotel beside my own, and we had sent the old gentleman bou- quet the day he arrived, and I wrote a little address to accompany it. The major -domo said the Emperor was very much pleased with that address and that if would be with my little party at the foot of the lift, he would there greet us. The Emperor was most cor dial. The young man, his grandson, who spoke English perfectly, inter 1 preted had pleasant conversation with him and formed a high ideal of l his ability, and then they went off Half an hour afterward the waiting
 English with their bouquets discovered | the royal party had gone.
 | The future of this young man at that 1 time seemed very hopeless.. His grand
 father appeared likely to live for some time; his father was in middle life and
 likely to live as long as his grand | father and yet six months from that
 time his grandfather had died. lh l son had come to the throne and then
 in three months he had died; so within ] nine months that young man became Emperor of Germany.
 Some years afterward I was in Lon l don, and I was to dine with an enli-
 nent English statesman, Lord Rosbery to meet MT. Gladstone. AS I went 1T
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-27
GUITEAU WAS A MONSTER

been established that when he. inter- posed, whatever was being said or done automatically stopped Then, when he ceased the case went on again aS if nothing had happened.
 Only Scovalll interposed between me and Guiteau and I had an excellent op- portunity to see, hear and size him up. In visage and voice he was the meanest creature I have. either in life or in dreams, encountered. He had the face and intonations of demon. Everything about him was loathsome. I cannot doubt that his criminal colleagues of history were of the same category and kidney.
 have never taken, much, account of Joan of Arc except as an inspired lunatic. Charlotte Corday was only a trifle less so. Wilkes Booth I knew. He was drunk, had been drunk all that winter, com pletely muddled and perverted by brandy the inheritant of mad and bad blood. Czolgocz, the slayer of Mckinley, and the assassin of the Empress Elibazeth and Felix Faure were clearly insane. dare say it will be found that the poor wretch who has made the attempt on the life of Clemenceau is little better than an idiot
 All the same he should be carted to the Place de la Concorde as better men have been before him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-27
MAN WHO DITCHED GERMANY

I>found my friend, the host, in a high Punch today is one of the most extra ordinary cartoons that has ever ap- peared in that paper. I have been down and bought the original sketch.
 He had it hanging in his library as one of his choicest possessions, though it was surrounded with priceless works of art It was Dropping the Pilo.." There was 8 picture of great German ship and leaning smiling and confident over the rail was the youthful face of
 the German Emperor, and down at the bottom of the steps just going into the boat was the discarded pilot-Bis- marck. And the English statesman
 said, Tn that picture there may be more history and peril to Europe than in anything that has occurred in this generation"
 The next time r saw the Emperor was several years afterward at the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria. From all seven seas had been gathered the vast fleet of the Island Empire, | the MlSITeSS or the S0dS, lO STccL tHcii Queen on the sixtieth anniversary of her reign. Suddenly there appeared
 among them fleet of German war vessels and everybody was deeply in- | terested, Aboard one of them was the ! German Emperor who at that time was
 areusing the curiosity and apprehen-
 sion of Europe He came with the Prince of Wales to the ship where
 was guest. The Prince of Wales, as always, was most affable, polite and cordial. The Emperor was very quiet 1 and reserved until the captain of ouc I ship said, 'Your majesty. here is new
 gun just invented, rapid-firing gun"
 In an instant the whole atmosphere of
 the Emperor changed. He was all over that gun, examined every part of it,
 and then gave vast orders to his fleet commander for it's purchase. It was plain to see that his whole thought and
 mind was military, and everybody said,
 For what?" No one appreciated at
 that time that it was for the conquest
 of the world
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-27
Peace Delegates Wait
 on President Wilson

E7N HE peace delegates at Paris are
 U evidently going to mark time until President Wilson returns to France. This is an extraordinary compliment to the Presidents leader ship. It shows, also, what the world in general recognizes, that the driv- ing power behind the peace confer ence, the one man who was able to get it together and is able to keep it going, is President Wilson.
 The foremost statesmen, the great est diplomats of the time and an army jof experts gathered from the four quarters of the earth might conceiv- ably be able to transact some impor- tant business with one member miss ing, yet with the departure of MT. Wilson for America, the peace con- llcIeIlCe DeCetlle q HAeIc AiGItSI OA routine, and it was announced yester- day that plenary sessions would be abandoned until he gets back to Paris It is hard to realize how completely the Presidents personality over shadows that of every other public man, in Europe, although his tremen- dous popularity was revealed in the
 receptions given him on his visits tc
 France, England and Italy, and ever
 more forcibly by his success in gain
 ing support of all factions for the league of nations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-27
Regular Army and
 Temporary Army

A LTHOUGH Congress is crowded
 z N with routine business leaders hope to pass the army measure on or before March B. The bill agreed upon by the Senate military committee will be adopted, it is believed, with little or no change. i
 The main features are provisions for temporary army of about 53S,000 officers and men to serve one year from July 1 next, and a regular army of 75,O00 enlisted men thereafter.
 The pay of enlisted men will remain the same as now-$30 month being the minimum for privates. Soldiers lpay used to be $f5 month, but when lit was doubled the general belief was that it would never be reduced. A few days ago one of the senators proposed
 that it be put back to $15, but his
 motion met with no support.
 It has always been difficult to keep
 the authorized enlisted strength re-
 cruited up to the maximum. When
 the regular establishment was limited
 to 25,000 men, prior to the Spanish American war, its ranks were seldom within 10 per cent of that number.
 And, naturally, the larger the army
 the harder it will be to keep it up to requirements in time of peace. An
 era of prosperity will prevail in this
 country for years to come. Wages Imay not remain as high as they are today, but they will not come down to
 a low level, and only the young man having a special liking for military life will enlist when he could earn |. larger wages in civilian employment Short term enlistment always helps , to attract recruits, but what helps , most of all is the reform in social | treatment that has come about } gradually in recent years. In the . United States the private soldier k ? now treated with exceptional con l ,sideration. The discipline in the army l lis still rigid, and it must be so al ways, but the enlisted man is n, f longer required to perform menia
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-27
France in August, 1914.

France in August, 1914.
 In one of his short stories, "The Mad Woman Guy de Maupassant tells of the treatment received by a bedridden lunatic at. the hands of Prussians in a French town where a body of troops were billeted during the Franco-Prussian war. The woman, having lost all the members of her family in rapid succession, fell into a decline which took the form of acute melancholy and for eighteen years had not left her bed. The Prussian of- ficer, in charge of some soldiers quar- tered in her home, decided that she was shamming and merely refused to play the part of hostess because she hated the Prussians. Such an affront to his dignity could not be tolerated, so he ordered her to dress and receive her "guests." His command not being obeyed, he ordered his men to force their way into the demented woman's room. She was taken up on her mattress, carried to a nearby wood and left to die in the snow. Years after ward her remains were found by a citizen of the town and identified.
 One might call this a bit of pleas antry that is typically Prussian Whether the story is based on fact, or was born in the imagination of De Maupassant, it is not an exag- geration. In fact, the townspeople of Belgium and northern France sui, fered, many of them, far worse fat
 than the mad woman, who, after all
 was merely permitted to die. Some
 off the more recent examples of Prus
 sian humor did not stop there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-27
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

It is always safe to judge woman's wardrobe by the clothes she takes with her when she goes out of town for a couple of days They are the best she has,
 After man has had a wife or an automobile for a while he is not as crazy about either of them as he was when he first got them.
 A woman doesn't mind having her elbow-length gloves wrinkle in the mid
 dle the way she would if they happened to be her stockings
 It is easy to tell a girl that you love
 her when you don't love her. But it
 is hard to tell her that you love her when you really do love her. If some men you know ever started in to be pirates they would not need to have black flags made. They could use their handkerchiefs.
 The easiest way for a woman to con , vince man that he can live without her is to marry him. Another thing that jars a married man is the fact that if he tries to save any money he gets a reputation for being mean to his wife. -Hs | It is wonderful how a boy revises hi. | ideas about washing his ears and his neck when he feels that some girl de mands it.
 1 You may make a lot of friends by at tending strictly to your own business 1 but you'll never gain reputation fo ] being brilliant conversationalist. i And if a girl is inclined to have hip. | sne is going to have them in spite O !everything the fashion mags say. ] Of course a pair of cobweb silk stock iings are not very warm in winter. Bu | they make man stare a second time and that is the important thing. Wouldn't a married man let out al lawful squawk nowadays if his wifi wanted money enough to buy bustl after she had acquired the middle age spread? ''7 '@
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-27
Donald Conner. Recovering

q am glad to know that Donald Co., mer, who had such a close call wi.h pneumonia, is already on the high road to a complete recovery" said George Morrow, Jr 'I understand that he be- gan to get better as soon as he got on the train en route for Florida. He is now at Pelican Island, off the coast of west Florida. The travel to Florida this winter has been very heavy, for many who had the flu and then n, 10