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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-08-27
AeITAToR IN TOWN
Uncle George Van Pitt Has Been
Visiting Bennington

Uncle George Van Pitt, who frankly
ing in Bennington the past week and
promises to come again. His hobbies
are concrete roads, fireproof hotels
and America for Americans.
Mr.. Van Pitt is 70 years old and
was a travelling man for over so years.
Four years ago he sold out his busi-
ness and now does nothing but work
FOR the causes in which he is inter
ested On the reverse side CT his Wis
iting card is printed the following
statement of his doctrine:
Uncle Georges Hobbies
L was a member of the Klarendon
Korner Liars Klub clarendon Hotel,
Sea Breeze, Fla.,) an organization of
fist-c.ass, natural born liars, formed to
discuss national, state and municipal
problems, golf, bridge, poker, prohibit
concrete roads.
But remarking one day, Everybody
who knows anything about roads, un-
less ignorant or prejudiced knows
that the only durable, dustless, smooth
perfect road is concrete or brick laid
on concrete foundation. II was hail
ed before the directors and expelled
from the Klub. | could only defend
myself by answering the charge in a
deep, sepulchral voice, 1T is the
truth" Surely truth is mighty and
will prevail.
Hence | am not talking concrete so
energetically as in the past but have
turned to
Fireproof Hotels for Tourists
,and have been advocating the build
ing of strictly fireproof hotels for tour
lsts and travelling men, about fifty
miles apart on all the main traveied
routes. There is urgent necessity for
such hotels. They would pay well. On
the basis of 100 sleeping rooms each
with q bath, including well-appointed
lobby, dining rooms, office, etc, they
can be built for $4,000 per room. Once
built you will see peop.e leaving old
fire.trap, bed-bugged hotels like rats
from burning building. | advise
those purchasing ground to get suffi-
cient to double the size of the hotel
in the near future. Tourists will travel
far to good hotel.
Americans for America
What are we going to do with our
aliens? We have 10 million OF them
10 per cent of our inhabitants-whC
are unnatnralized and mu. titude are
new going back to Europe. Statistics
show that in the next few months the
tide of emigration will take S1,500,00O,
900 to Europe. II these foreigners hac
been naturalized the money they have
put by and are now carrying abroad
would go to work building up the Unit
ed STATES which should be the countr.
of their adoption No unnaturalizeC
person is an American no matter wha
country he came from and we mus
see that the rights fthis country, the
opportunities for making living an(
of putting by fortune are withheld
see that the rights of this country, The
come Americans.
Yours for good concrete roads, fire
from those who do net propose to be
! UNCLE GEORGE.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-08-27
GOMPERS REFUSES TC
COMMENT ON PROPOSAL
Labor Leader Says He Came Home to
Aid Fellow Workmen, Not to
Interfere with Labor

New York, Aug. 26.-Declining to
discuss current labor problems in de-
tail on the ground that he had not
had time to familiarize himself with
them during his absence abroad. Sam
uel Gompers, president of the Ameri-
can Federation CT Labor, who arrived
here from France on the transport
George Washington today, said that
he wished to make plain that he did
not come home to interfere with the
program of labor but to help my fell
low laborers"
Mr.. Gompers, who has been attend
ing the sessions of the International
Trades Union congress at Amsterdam
declared that "the employers of labor
have not yet learned that the time is
past when they are the complete mon
archs Of all they survey"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-08-27
COLLEGE GETS CANNON
Williams Receives German Gun Cap
tured by LIEUTENANT Dana

Williamstown, August ga cap
tured German field piece has just been
received by Williams College, the gift
of Lieut.. Paul Dana, graduate of
the college in the class of 1911. The
cannon was captured by him and his
men and after some efforts. he has
had it sent to the college. 1t plainly
shows the marks of war, being worn a
good deal in some of its working parts
an dthe rifling is also worn. The
shield is dcnted and cracked in several
places 1t still has some of the paint
of the camou1age, but is rusty and
weather-beaten now. Just where it
will be placed on the college campus
has not been decided
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-08-27
MANY CHANGES IN
TREATY WANTED
BY COMMITTEE
Want United States Excluded
from European Disputes
DIVIDE ON PARTY LINES
Committee Votes Amendments to
Majority Claims Gain for
U. s. Ideals

Washington, Aug 26.-The Senate
Foreign Relations Committee voted
again today to amend the treaty with
Germany.
Carrying out the views of the Re.
publican majority by strict party
alignment, the committee voted for
amendments covering fifty cases pro-
viding against American participa.
tion in the settlement of European
boundaries and International ques-
tions relating to the continent OF
Europe
Today's action was the second step
in a program of amendment and the
Shantung amendment adopted last
Saturday was the first. The program
Republican committee members said,
was to make the treaty conform
throughout to American ideas and
ideals and to rid the United States of
burdens imposed by the treaty which,
in their opinion this nation was not
obliged to carry.
BY vote of 8 to Z, Senator Nc.
Cumber being absent, the committee
adopted an amendment proposed by
Senator Fall, New Mexico, striking
from Section XXXv of Part III of the
treaty the words "and associated"
where they occur in the phrase
allied and associated powers"
The effect of this amendment was
to eliminate the Associated power;
that is. the United States, from mem
bership on the Commission of Seven
Created to trace ON the spot the new
boundary between Belgium and Ger.
many.
Following this action the commit
tee, by agreement. extended the agree
ment to all similar provisions in the
treaty save one, so that, in fifty
places in the text. the words "and as
sociated" would be stricken out. The
effect In each case is the same-ex-
clusion of the United States.
Senator Fall had prepared a total
OF twenty-three amendments on this
point. He explained afterward that
he had abandoned several more
amendments taking from the League
OF Nations the power TO create com.
missions.
when we get through with the
League" said Senator Fall. ut won't
be creating any commissions"
One exception was expressly made
by Senator Fall in presenting his
amendments. He asked that Ameri.
can membership on the Reparations
Commission, the most important body
set up by the Treaty. be not affected
by the amendment
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-08-27
DEATH AT SOLDIERS HOME
Henry J.'Freeman, Native of Monkton,
Passed Away Tuesday

Henry j. Freeman died at the Sol
diers home Tuesday afternoon. He
was born in Monkton, March IA, .1S4S.
and first enlisted from that town in
Co. l., 18th Vermont, July 8, 1863 and
was discharged for disability April Is,
1864; next enlisted in Co c.. 9th Yer
mont. August 2, 1854 and was muster
ed out June 13, 1866. A sister, Mrs.
Amelia Coleman survives him.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-08-27
SHOPMEN REJECT
PROPOSALS AND
MEN WILL VOTE
Higher Representatives Refuse
Offer of Wilson
WILL AFFECT 100000 MEN
Unions VIII Vote on Proposals and
Forws 7, Results to Officials
e'noot ION
"ontbe,,o 20sen,sa.ry

Washington, Aug. "ec tpuSdent
Wilson's proposal was reiec,t ,oday
by the higher representatives OF the
railway shop crafts, who have been
threatening to strike il not granted
substantial wage increases, and the
men involved, approximately 100000
in number, have been instructed to
vote Immediately on the question
whether they will accept the Presi-
dents proposition as basis of set
tlement or reject it and strike.
These instructions were mailed to.
night from the headquarters of the
American Federation of Labor in
Washington to more than 5000 local
railway unions in this country and
Canada. Pending the issuance of the
official strike order. provided the
members should vote to strike, the
of the unions have
appealed to the men to remain at
work. AS the instructions have been
forwarded by mail four days will
elapse before many of the unions re-
ceive them Men in the shop crafts
unions are instructed to carefully con
slider the question, to vote immediate.
ly, and the result of the vote is to be
telegraphed to Washington by each of
the local unions.
1t is anticipated that a week will
be required for the voting and the
communication of its results to the
headquarters of the Railway Employ
es Department of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor in Washington. No
date has been fixed for the strike, If
the men do vote to strike.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-08-27
MISSING AiRMEN FOUND
Mexican Colonel Sends Report from
Lower California

Ell Centre, Cal, Aug. 26.-Colonel
Hipolito Baranca, CT the Mexican
forces in lower California reported at
1870 today that Captain Trujillo of
his forces had found the missing avia-
tors, Lieutenants F. b, Waterhouse
and c. H. Connolly both awe, between
Ojias Negras and Gale de la Trinidad
in lower California. No particulars
We're received.
Colonel Baranca placed full credence
in the report. The locality named is in
an almost inaccessible country The
message said nothing of finding the
ARP ane used by the airmen.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-08-27
STRIKE NOT YET SETTLED
No Change in Situation at Black Cat
Underwear Mill.

No steps looking toward a settle
ment of the strike at the Black Cat
underwear mill have been taken dur
ing the past "a hours. General Sup
erintendent r. ~ Kimball, who has
been in town for a larger portion of
the time since the strike began two
weeks ago, is to leave today for Ken
osha, Wis, the headquarters Of the
company.
The members of the textile unions
are to hold meeting this evening for
the purpose OF considering the situ-
alton.
AT present the outlook for an early
settlement of the difficulties between
the company and the operatives is
not particularly good.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-08-27
AIRPLANE TO RETURN
Local People May Make Flights
Again All Day Thursday.

The airplane, which was in Ben.
nington las. Saturday will again be
in town Friday provided the
weather permits 1t will fly here
from Cambridge and will be piloted
by F., G, Hayner. The ship is owned
by the Birch Airplane Corporation.
A number Of Benningtonians avail
cd themselves of the opportunity ID
take flight Saturday but engine
trouble was developed in the plane in
the afternoon and several people who
wished to fly were disappointed For
this reason, flights will be made all
day Friday
The plane in which these trips are
being made is of the Curtiss type.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-08-27
NATIONAL LEAGUE

Cincinnati 4, Philadelphia first
game).
Cincinnati 8, Philadelphia (second
game, Is innings.
Boston 1, Chicago 0 (irst game).
Boston T. Chicago (second game)
New York 8, Pittsburg l (first
game).
Pittsburg 4, New York 1 (second
game).
Brooklyn 1, st. Louis 0 (first game)
Brooklyn 2, st. Louis 1 (second
game.)
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-08-27
WARNING TO TURKEY
Turkish Government Told That
Massacres Must Cease

Paris, An informal warning to Tur
key that massacres OF Armenians
must cease, given by Rear Admiral
Bristol, caused something of furry
in French official quarters, and in the
peace conference supreme council, it
developed today.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-08-27
THE BRADFORD cLAMBAkE
Employees Had Enjoyable Outing at
Hunts Upper Grove

About so employees of the Bradford
mill enjoyed Clam bake Saturday at
Hunts upper grove. Much credit is
due to John Gibney and Albert Downs
who helped to make it one great sue
cess.
After the bake game of baseball
was enjoyed by the older and younger
men of the mill. Other members OF
the committee in charge were Otto
Mutch. Sara McCue and Helen Koch
lar
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-08-27
WILL MAKE WESTERN TRIP
Wilson viii Begin Trip TO Pacific
Coast Within Ten Days.

Washington, Aug. 27-President
Wilson will begin his trip to the Paci-
fic coast as soon as details can be ar
ranged, probably within ten days or a
fortnight. Secretary Tumulty made
this definite announcement today, ad-
ding that the President felt he should
make the trip. 1t is regarded likely
that the President will reach tho
coast in time to review the Pacific
fleet at San Francisco September Is.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-08-27
DR.. RElNscH RESIGNS
U. S. Minister to China Sends Resie-
nation to Wilson,

Washington. Aug. 27.-Dr Paul
Reinsch, American Minister to China,
has resigned. His resignation is in
the hands of President Wilson. but it
was denied lie had presented IT sud.
denly as reported in Japanese de-
spatches to Honolulu. 1t was said at
the White House, that the President
had not yet acted on the resignation.
Reasons for the resignation were not
made public.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-08-27
TO ExTRADlTE Bella KUN
Demand Comes From New Austrian
Foreign Office.

Basic. Aug. 2T.--The extradition Of
Bella Kun and his associates in the
former Hungarian communist govern
ment has been demanded by Hungary
! from New Austrian foreign Office
says Vienna despatch.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-08-27

Washington. Aug 27.-Up to this
time, no inquiry has been made OF
the United States as to whether Won
Haimhausen will be acceptable to this
government as German ambassador.
There is. however, every indication
that the government will not receive
Won Haimhausen or anyone else who
was formerly connected with the en-
bassy under the regime of Won Bern
stoff.
1t is expected that the German gov
ernment will formerly ask the United
States ifsHaniel Won Haimhausen is
acceptable within a day or so.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-08-27
PgRsHlNe REVIEWS REGIMENT
American General Makes Last Public
Appearance in France

Paris, Aug. 26.-General Pershing
reviewed the French regiment of the
Paris garrison before the Hotel des
Invalides today and decorated several
officers and soldiers. This was the
last appearance CT the American com
mander-in-chief before his departure
for Brest next Sunday.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-08-27

spatch from Budapest
Paris, Aug Pa list of plunder
taken out of Hungary since Aug. II
reached Paris today. 1t includes
everything from typewriters to 10
race horses and many other animals
from the Hungarian Government stud
farms. Thousands of Hungarian work
men have been thrown out of work
by the removal of all machinery from
the factories in which they were en-
ployed. Four thousand telephones
have been taken from private homes
The Rumanians have taken 60 per
cent. OF the Hungarian locomotives,
practically all the passenger equip
ment and 5000 freight cars.
All these items are taken as sam
pies from much longer list of
plunder removed only in four or FIVE
days. Before that had gone cattle
and food In other words, Rumania
is doing to Hungary exactly what Ger
many did to Belgium. OF course it is
true that Hungary robbed Rumania
first. but, as Mr. Hoover says, retalia-
tion robbery is against the new rules
of a virtuous world. a. Flf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-08-27
VON HA|MHAUSEN
SELECTED As Ne VI
j 6. AMBASSADOR
Former Member of German En-
bassy Receives Appointment
MAY NOT BE ACCEPTED
Doubtful Whether U. S. Government
viii Receive Man Connected
with Former Regime
MAY NOT BE ACCEPTED

Berlin, Aug. 26.-Haniel Won Hahn
hausen, former chancellor of the Ger
man embassy at Washington has been
selected for the appointment as Ger
man ambassador to the United States
according to authoritative informa-
tion.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-08-27
WEATHER FORECAST

Showers probably tonight and
Thursday Not much change in tenn
perature.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-08-27
BASEBALL RESULTS
Scores OF Yesterdays Games and
Standing Of Clubs.
AMERICAN LEAGUE

Cleveland /, Detroit 2.
Chicago 4, st. Louis 8 90 innings.
STANDING of the Clubs
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-08-27
Standing of the Clubs
roo LA'rn no CLASSIFY

WANTED-Board and room in pri-
vate family by young man. Address
A. B. c. Box $40 S5tl'
WANTED-Girl or woman to cook
and do light housework i'm small family
High wages. Telephone 564-W. 85t6
TO RENT-After Sept 1st small
upstairs tenement with bath, suitable
for two only. 119 Jefferson Ave. s5t6"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-08-27
MART |AL LAW IS
PROCLAIMED IN
ENTIRE HUNGARY
Rumanians Still Continue to
Take Plunder
LOOT PRIVATE HoMI
Everything from Typewriters to Race
Horses Taken-Business Is
Wholly Paralyzed

Paris, Aug. 27.-Martial law which
was proclaimed in Budapest few
days ago has been extended to the
whole of Hungary, according to de-
spatch from Budapest.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-08-20
A VACATION FROM DUTY

The heat of summer, though it
be a discomfort to all others in
Washington, has proved convent
ence TO the Republican leaders Of
the House of Representatives 1t
has provided them with an excuse
tor months recess from the pain
and labor of doing nothing.
While in their refugees by the sea
or in the mountains-far from the
torrld halls of Congress-the Re-
publican leaders may contemplate
their recent decord of mastery in
activity"
In two months special session.,
which they sought to compel Presi-
dent Wilson to call for their own
partisan purposes, the Republicans
have passed only those bills which
could and would have been enacted
by the previous Democratic Con-
gress but for the filibuster in the
Senate last March.
AS to the vital legislation which
President Wilson recommended,
which the country demanded and
which the Republicans promised,
they have done worse than nothing.
They have not merely failed to act
by pickering and jealousies
among themselves they have made
affirmative action impossible. Great
measures of reconstruction for the
adoption of which the special ses-
sion was called have either been de-
feated or allowed to go without the
slightest consideration.
Legislation for the railroads, the
passage of the reclamation act, the
adoption of a program for the de-
velopment of water power, the re-
organization of the army, the estab-
lishment of a budget system, the
outlining of maritime policy, the
abolition of luxury taxes, the safe
guarding Of immigration, the pro-
lection of American industries
brought into being by the war, nota-
lily the manufacture of dyestuffs--
all these are in the catalogue Of Re-
publican omissions.
The recess may bring the Repub-
lican leaders of the House of Rep
resentatives surcease from the heat
of summer. but their culpable neg
lect and incompetence as the coun-
try's responsible legislators will ex-
pose them to the heat of popular
Indignation.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-08-20
SISTER SEEKS BROTHER
10 YEARS; FINDS HIM
IN DEATH HOUSE CELL

A press dispatch from Columbus
Ohio, says:
Through publication of pictures
of eight men awaiting execution in
the Ohio penitentiary, Mrs. Lillian
Wilson, of Columbus, learned that
her brother, Edward Ness, of Gin
cinnati, for whom she had search
ed 10 years, was one of the con-
demned men, and is to be executed
October 16 for the murder of Will
liam THE, of Cincinnati.
"I'm your sister," Mrs. Wilson
said, approaching Ness cell in the
death house.
Lillian" asked Ness.
eyes"
Glow did you know l was here?'
Ness asked hazily. evidently not
thinking of the present but the
time when he last saw her, 10 years
ago, at which time he was 16 years
old.
Ness, 1t is said, had hoped that
his sister would not learn Of his
crime and condemnation.
Mrs. Wilson explained that she
had seen pictures Of the condemn
ed men ana had visited the peni-
Tertiary, hoping that it was a mis-
take and that she would not find
her brother there.
Both wept as Ness broke down
and said:
ut was liquor that did it,"
The sister attempted to comfort
him and promised as she left him
to make a final appeal for his life
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-08-20
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nervousness, mental depression ev-
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catarrh and cancer of the stomach,
intestinal ulcers, cirrhosn of the
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