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most Hospitality. ne noDceu Cs-se o.
four OF them whose naked bodies show
ell scars which they attributed 10
bites inflicted hy m.neating say
ages Of another island called Can-
lba. Whence The origin Of the word
cannibal-the island inhabited by these
anthropophasi being Porto Rico.
Less than 100 years ago Spain still
claimed ownership Of the whole Pa
cific ocean, declaring it Spanish lake
on the strength of Balboa's discovery
in 1913. Acting upon this idea, the
Spanish government ordered the COM
mandante of san Francisco to seize
the Columbia the first vessel that
carried The American ilas around Cape
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-14
DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS
To BE Held in Apollo Hall Social
Rooms Saturday, Feb. IS.

To De Held in Apollo Hall Social
Rooms Saturday, Feb. IS.
Democratic voters Of the Town oil
bennington are hereby notified to at
tend u caucus OF the Democratic
party TO be held at the social rooms
Of Apollo Han, north door entrance,
on Saturday evening, February 10Th
ut oight.thirty o'clock TO place IN
nomination candidates for town OIL
cers 10 ~ voted for ut the annual
meeting to be nod on the first Tues
day OF March. 1919.
Bennington, VI, February S. 1919
Dennis Enright.
william Gibney,
w. F. Hogan,
John Scarey,
II. d. Fillmore
H. J. TIFFANY.
John i. Mulligan.
Democratic Town Committee,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-14

Bank clerks are wondering If Tho
end OF The war means another set
holiday 10 he observed every year
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-14

An increase in war gardens next
summer will help bring about de-
crease in the high prices.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-14

There win lie plenty Of room aud
plenty Of places Tor The soldiers when
they come home.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-14

flindenburg says he will nor desert
the German people--there being no
place Ia which he can desert
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-14

Now that all our women have learn.
ed 10 knit viii The home folk have
werner feet Than usual this winter?
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-14

And when The boys gel home Meth.
ing will be 100 good for ihem-Dot
even their old Jobs.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-14

With no more wars, wllat will he
patriotic woman muniuon workers DO
10 earn fur coats?
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-14

The trip Of those U.boats TO give
themselves np to The British was in no
sense Il JOY ride.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-14
Three Pairs Of Twins
Didn't Bring Happiness

Cleveland, O.--Chlldren usu-
ally hold the home together. it is
said. But three pairs of twins.
now aged ten and seven years
and three months, respectively,
failed TO avert q divorce suit
filed here by Mrs. Elsie Kuntz,
their mother. She complains that
the chlldren's father neglected
her and the twins and was cruel.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-14
HERE is PROOF


''For years | sufferedwith chronic
cough, so l could not sleep nights and
continued to lose flesh. My druggist
asked me TO try Vinol. 1t cured my
cough. | can sleep nights and have
gained twelve pounds. Vinol is the
best tonic and tissue builder | have ever
taken. wv. D. Rem, Lagrange, NC.
ditions, weak women, overworked men,
rem. there is no remedy like vtnoi.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-03
THE STATES ART JURY

TT OUGHT to be easily possible to
= reconcile the functions of the State
Art Commission suggested by Governor
Sproul and provided for in a pending bill
at Harrisburg with those of the Art Jury
which already exists in this city. There
is no justification for measure that
would Grip" the Philadelphia organza-
tion out of existence.
The state itself needs precisely the
Gort of supervision in relation to art
developr ent in it's various communities
that Mr.. Widener and his associates have
provided here. The next ten years will
bring a great expansion of decorative
work in smaller towns and cities which
are already preparing to commemorate
the part which they and their citizens
played in the war. An expert eye and
trained judgment will be necessary in
the authoritative direction of such work
If millions aren't to be wasted in clumsy
and uninspiring buildings and monu-
ments.
The Governor has very properly at
tempted to meet the situation by provid-
ing for an art commission to be endowed
with general jurisdiction in the state.
At the same time, the plan as it is now
being considered would eliminate the
Philadelphia jury, which has worked
most admirably because of its special
knowledge of the peculiar needs and aims
of this city.
This prospect suggests serious fault
in the Governors bill, which has already
been passed by the Senate. What is
needed is ans amendment to insure the
continuance of the jury in Philadelphia,
which has proved its value by actually
setting the example for the state itself
in this instance.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-03

tanning ambitions not justified by his
own experience or qualifications.
But his that is in the ring" His name
keeps fresh an affectionate memory in
the hearts of all red-blooded and youth
full Americans, men and boys who have
been won't to think of manhood before
political principles. They and others, it
is hoped will Judge him solely on his
merits.
IT, indeed, his own worth carries him
into the seats of the mighty, where the
spirits of his father and Of Lincoln and
Of Washington still hover, or the flood
tide of his splendid war record recedes
and echoes a no greater name than just
"citizen Roosevelt" he is but doing what
thousands of American schoolboys are
doing each day-whispering to them
selves. Little George Washington just
so high, he became President and why
can't II"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-03
FRANCE AND DOOMSDAY BOOK

E1OR France, read Chile. For defeated
L Germany, read Peru. For the Saar-
or Sarre-coal fields, read the Tacna-
africa nitrate mines. Trace the story
through the biggest book in the world
the book of history. To many readers it
is a terrible volume, a "Doomsday Book"
a cold and steely commentary on hu-
man error.
1t takes courage to turn its pages, yet
for every disillusionment they contain
there is by implication a contrasting
ing the Golden Rule negatively. SINH
larly in the worlds "Doomsday Book"
the demonstration of chow w-not-do-it"
furnishes so often the key to justice.
Between 1879 and 1883 the republics
of Chile and Peru fought fierce and
bloody war. 1t is the subject of COM
paratively little read, yet vitality in
structive, chapter in the great book.
Therein it is recounted how the struggle
primarily concerned possession of i'm
mensely valuable deposits of nitrate.
Chile won the fray. Peru was pros
trate, bankrupt.
AS an extension of the indemnity prin-
ciple, the Treaty of Ancon provided that
those precious fields and the provinces in
which they lay be turned over to the
victor for period of ten years. At the
end of that time sovereignty was to be
determined by plebiscite. 1t has nevsr
! been held! Peru, renewed in strength,
| nourishes an unremitting grudge for her
conoueror. South America is contin-
ually darkened by war clouds. Chile
assumes the attitude that "her prop
erty" is being coveted by her neighbor
nation. Full diplomatic relations be-
tween the two countries have never been
resumed.
In lieu of any guide to the future only
the record of the past can be consulted
It is clamorous with warning when we
change the names in that tragic South
American chapter, as France stretches
out her hands for temporary control OF
the Saar Valley.
The torture which France has suf.
fered under provocation from cruel and
savage foe has brought to the love which
all civilization bears her the profoundesi
sympathy and pity. The world, and es.
pecially America, owes her so much that
the feeling that she should be satisfied
no matter what her demands, is un,
doubtedly hard to resist in many hearts
But the lustrous role which she plays
will be enhanced in grandeur, if thai
keen logic of which she has always beer
mistress is applied to the present situa
ton. The republic should be unsulliec
in her beauty. Remuneration of hel
claims to the Saar country would be .
supreme gesture dear to the French i'm
apination.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-03
SEATS OF THE MIGHTY

saTHERE is tide in the affairs of men
= which, taken at its food, leads on
to fortune Lieutenant Colonel Theo-
dore Roosevelt, son of perhaps the most
dynamic force which ever made its ap-
pearance in American public life, in an
nouncing that he has abandoned the
pursuit of business for political career,
has chosen a crucial moment to pull on
his fathers boots and step into that sea
which ever ebbs an flows at the whim
of the man with the ballot. Whether its
flood will lead him on to fortune only
the will-o'- -the-wisp of Republican poll
tics can tell.
In this country the door of oppor-
tunity is open to every man who, on his
own merits, works out the combination
which opens the lock. The task of the
young man who would seek to travel
\ the path which great father had blazed
is heavy one, fraught with exag.
gerated expectations of ability and at.
tninment.
The public will perhaps realize that
IN carrying that burden, young Roosevelt
has assumed liability rather than ar
asset and will frown upon any tendency
which viii seek to accuse him of depend
inc upon his fathers reputation.
5e faces peculiarly dangerous political
~ 3sao seas Perhaps he enters upon
pdqs ths snspicion Of enter
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-03

TN THREE days the latest Japanese
scare budded, lowered, expanded,
glittered and collapsed. The intimation
at the State Department that reports of
japanese land coup in Southern Cali
fornia were due to politics is far graver
than any aspect of the California Incl
dent, which seems now to have involved
nothing but the desire of some American
landowners to lease an isolated tract to
some japanese farmers.
Who is interested in discrediting the
existing Mexican Government and intent
upon creating new irritations between
the American people and the people of
Mexico? Or who is particularly desir-
GUS of creating a widespread suspicion
of Japan in this country at a time like
this?
Rumors of Japanese ambitions in
South America have been renewed at
regular intervals for twenty years and
at times have been circumstantial
enough to inspire senatorial activity and
grave debate. Yet there never was any
actual proof to warrant American anX-
iety or resentment. Japan has her wor-
ries and ambitions in the East.
When Senator Phelan launched the
latest rumors he doubtless was suffer-
ing from nerves. He may be declared
innocent of hidden purposes. But the
State Department will do service for
the country if it can reveal the names of
the men who make the sort of ammuni-
tion that Senator Phelan fired.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-03
What Do You Kno.o?
QUIZ

1. What are the two languages of Belgium? Z?
q What is the meaning OF carte bIanche,'
and what is the origin Of the phrase?
Q. What kind of a boat is dngey?
L. Where is Constanza where troops of the
Entente are said to have landed?
s. What Roman Emperor delighted to enter
the gladiatorial contests in the Colos-
scum and styled himself 'The Second
Hercules?
6. What scholastic degree is expressed by
the letters LIB?
Z. Who wrote Hang sorrow; carell kill =
cat? u
8. What is the capital of Missouri?
0. Who is william Hale Thompson?
TO- What is the new worlds record for speed
by an arplane?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-03
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz


1. Bella Kun is the Foreign Minister OF
Bolshevst Hungary. tI
9. The Idaho is ranked as the largest and
most powerful battleship in the world.
3. Demiurge is the word applied TO the
creator of the world in Platonic philos-
ophy; also sometimes to the Christian
God or to supposed subordinate agents
IN creation.
4. Anatole France is a noted French novel
list, essayist. satirist and savant. His
real name is Anatole Thibault. E
s. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson we-e
the American Presidents who died On
the Fourth OF July. 1926.
6, Gas was first used in an attack in ths
war by the Germans in 1915. A
I. "The Book of Revelation" is somstimss
called 1.-THE Book Of the Apocalypee |.
8. siiriing is playing the bagpipes. !.
o. Potable water means drinkabie water
10. A vedette is mounted sentinel plnco6
n advances Of an outpost.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-03
IN 4 HOSPITAL

HAVE a little garden
l. That's very fair to see
Asters, pinks and pansiec,
Roses and sweet peas.
Close grouped In tiny clusters
Each lifts it's smiling head
My gardens on table
That stands beside my bed
Soft pink, rich purple, yellow,
Like some gay butterfly,
/ love to watch them nodding
Against my window sky.
The perfume Of the pansies
Is like rich garden loem,
The perfume of the roses
Whispers to me of home.
Johnson, in "Everybody's."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-03

Senator Ashurst some months ago
called Lower California "the Achilles's heel,
OF the United States He might have
added that it was periodically shod with
gum-shoe politics.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-03
blame and he calls the offender to ac-

count.
The people elect Mayor to manage
their city government. If he has power
enough he can manage it successfully,
provided, of course, he Is also endowed
with sufficient ability. And If the city is
badly governed, the people know who is
TO blame and can elect different kind
Of man the next time. The chief ex-
ecutive officer must be the executive
officer in chief, holding all of his subor-
dinstes responsible, as he is held respon-
sible. He is the city manager, by what
ever name he may be known.
A charter which will give the absolute
executive direction Of the business of the
city to its Mayor will command the serv-
ices of much higher type of man than
n charter which ties the hands Of the
Mayor and makes him impotent in the
face of fragrant inefficiency, or worse, on
the part of the heads of the different
departments under him.
All this is so obvious that when it is
stated it is proved.
The evils which we are combating
are known. The proper remedies are
also known and are as familiar to stu
dents of municipal government as the
cure for the common ills of the body are
known to the physicians. All that any
sincere friend of charter revision is try
ing to do is to apply the known remedies
to the known ills.
Those who are befuddlng the issue,
with undoubted sinister motives, are like
the quack doctor prescribing some nos
trum not to cure, but to enrich himself
or those who are dependent on him.
That is, unless they are mere monkeys
being used to pull the chestnuts out of
the fire for some more astute men be-
hind them.
We want no ripper bills, unless it be a
bill to oust the present Board of Revi-
sion of Taxes-appointive by the Board
of Judges and virtually irresponsible to
the voters-in the interest Of fair as
sessment and an honest tax rate, along
with other changes to be made effective
in the new Council. This would not be
real ripper, but step in progress.
And we want no bills to shift control
of our affairs to Harrisburg on the theory
that we cannot be trusted to manage
them ourselves.
This city is capable of running its own
business. The laws to be passed should
be laws which will unite the peoples
hands and leave them free to do what
they wish to do and which will also pro-
vide remedies to be used by the people
at large when by any chance the serv-
ants they have elected in good faith
prove recreant.
In brief, we wish majority rule. with
power conferred upon the minority to
hold the majority to strict account. We
shall get these things if the citizens
committee charter draft is passed sub
stantially as it has been introduced in the
Legislature. We shall not get them if
these cunning alternative propositions
metropolitan police and fgurehead
mayoralty-are passed.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-03

Berlin gambling crazy" says a head
line. Evidently the same old plunger she
was when Ludendorff speculated so des-
perately.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-03

1t looks as though it will be up to
Senator Borah to drop the ID" from his
cry Of Amend" when the revised league
pact is submitted to him.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-03

One admirable feature of the proposed
airplane traffic rules Is that grade cross
ings can be inexpensively abolished by
mere fiat.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-03

Remember, it was Uncle Sam who be-
slowed the precious gift Of victory. All he
will ask in a few days is loan.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-03

King Coal is anything but a merry
monarch when he intrudes upon the Paris
conference
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-03

Suggested adjective for the Peace Con-
ference weather report: Fair"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-03
Tuti Tut!

More sailors in the
Tuti Tut! United States navy
than doughboys In the
army married abroad, and the world is
now wondering why this should be. There
viii be cynics, OF course. who will insist
that the sailor leaps hurriedly into married
ilfs because ne isn't ssrsid Of squalls.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-03

The Bolshevid have long been too red
to blush.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-03

1t was 176 years ago yesterday that
Thomas Jefferson was born, but his spirit
kas still not only alive but kicking espe-
Totally the latter. whom raw DEALS are pro
ossd y PaFIk. \. (
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-03

UD EvoLUTIoNs!" says Portuguese,
IG"they are nothing here; just spring
showers. But then one hates to be caught
in shower with his good clothes on"
Another exclaims. "Ah s'nhor, our only
hope is that the Americans will run this
unhappy country"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-03

TvEN after nearly ninety years there is
T. a certain pang in learning that while
Madam Trollope found nothing comey
about the exterior Of Independence Hall,
she proclaimed New York's City Hall as
mobile"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-03

The proposition to decentralize the
power of the Mayor is as pernicious a.
the proposition to place the control Of
the police under state commission
The Mayor has too little power rather
than too much.
We are talking all the time about the
importance of the application of bust.
ness principles to city government
Every great business man holds the
heads of his various departments re,
sponsible for the department. If any
4 eoartnent fails u produce results the
I'm q ne business knows who 4 4
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-03
THE GOWNSMAN
Revolution in Portugal

A WITTY speaker once likened the re-
"A publlcs OF South and Central America
to the terrestrial globe swimming in space
For" said he, down there they have a
revolution of their own every twenty-four
hours" 1t would seem that these fortu
nate wards Of the Monroe Doctrine, for
whose behoof some North Americans seem
willing to hazard the peace of the rest OF
the world, have come by this revolutionary
recurrency quite honestly. The opera
bouffe Is in their veins.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-12-25
LOCAL ITEMS FROM THE
TERRY COUNTY HERALD

Just rs we get ready TO go to press
we learn that Frank Alberding and
Miss Vera Boon got married late yes
terday afternoon They are fine
young people, and we join the many
friends in congratulations.
Sam Pyeatt, who was member of
the seth Division that saw service
overseas, recently got his discharge
and returned home. He developed a
stomach trouble while overseas, that
necessitated an operation, and he is
lust now well enough to come home.
Uncle Joe Beal has purchased the
Mace lust west of the square from
Dock Powell, and will move right
away. The house is now occupied
by B. W. Stinson, who will likely
have TO build
The public school was dismissed
last Friday until after the holidays
in order that the teachers could at
tend the Teachers Institute at Lub-
book this week, and some of them
went up Saturday, some Sunday,
while few teachers from other por-
tions of the country did not go up
till Tuesday. There are lot Of not
ed educators listed 10 address the in
stitute. and we guess the teachers
will greatly enjoy the week and come
home more determined than ever TO
push the schools Of the county to the
forefront.
Ed Moore returned this week form
Fort Worth, where he purchased one
of the largest well drills made He
described il to us as one Of the lat
est models of the spudding machines,
and makes no loud and unnecessary
noises in running II will be here
about the first Of January, mt which
time he will be ready TO put down n
well for you in the quickest time pos
sible. Ed is an experienced driller,
and probably has better success than
any other driler in this part Of the
country. but the main reason for that
is easily explained, when it is remem-
bered that Ed never starts in with
old and run down machinery. He
says il does not pay him to have to
work on his machine half the time,
and II is not satisfactory TO the man
he is drilling for.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-12-25
AND 1T ALL HAPPENED
IN WEST TEXAS, TOO

Terry County Herald:
Il makes ones heart feel good to
lust 90 down TO the local railroad
wards these DAYS and look what IS
being loaded out to the hungry world.
II makes one love old Terry better
every day and in fact we have come
10 the point where we almost adore
the old girl and want to hug her
blessed old SANDY sides. Besides
the thousands Of pounds Of poultry
going out on every train, and the car
after car of fat cattle. good mules
and horses, and between seven and
eight hundred bales Of cotton, 81 40
600 90 worth not to mention seed.
There are from five 10 seven cars of
corn and maize loading all the time.
Besides this. there are thousands Of
bushels of corn being piled up to
wait the shelter. as car after car OF
shelled corn will 90 to the drouth
stricken northwest
Corn in the shuck finds ready
market in Texas and the southeast
ern states, but il takes shelled corn
TO get a market in the north or north
west. One big warehouse 40x60 was
ONtI lOt NADtdEt VI NNNh
was 10 be shelled and in the first few
days Of the opening it was grooming
full, and now a large space has been
fenced in and several pens Of corn 90
feet long, Ia feet wide and as high
as q man can throw an ear Of corn
from a wagon are now being filled
and about three OF them are now
filled.
When one takes into consideration
that there are some crops in the
county that will run well toward and
to 10000 bushels. he can readily un-
derstand what we mean, when we
tell you that there are some thirty
or forty freight cars lined up on the
track ready 10 carry this grain to the
uttermost parts Of the world.
Then, to think. that some railroad
men. who do not want us to have
daily train service. az !: .=ill be 1T
tle more expensive, will put up the
plea that this is thinly settled coun-
try and drouth stricken. and "the ton