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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-29
Bennington Vampires
BURDEN OF THE RED CROSS
Local Branch Has Tremendous Task
to Finish Before Sept. 1.

The few Red Cross workers whO
appear at the rooms of the Benning-
ton branch each Tuesday arc facing
task that they cannot possibly ae-
complish before September unless
more of the workers lend their as
sistancc.
The task that confronts the local
branch is the making OF the allotment
of layettes which was assigned to
Bennington when the New England
headquarters made the apportion-
ment Should Bennington fail in this
instance the failure will make blot
upon record that has not had one
black spot since the day when the
United States declared war on Ger,
many.
The original consignment of ar
ticles which go to make up the lay
cites consisted of the following
Two hundred baby blankets, 400
dresses, 200 jackets, 800 shirts, 400
pairs of bootees, 1900 squares, 200
supply bags. The making of these
hundreds of articles is not half COM
pleted. 1t is not at all strange that
the few faithful workers who have
gathered at the local headquarters
feel discouraged and also feel that
they are carrying more than their
share of the burden.
1t would seem that there must be
members of the local Red Cross who
are in a position to give a portion
of one day week to this commend
able cause. If they are unableA to
leave their household duties there is
an opportunity for them to call at
the headquarters for garment or
garments to be made at home.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-29
AMERICANS TRYING TO
SELL AUTOS IN GERMANY
German Newspaper Claims the Ma
chimes Are Struggled Into Ger
many Thru Occupied Territory

Berlin, July 2S,-The Deutsches Zie-
tung claims that Americans in the
occupied territory are attempting to
sell their own and the balance of the
armys huge stock of automobiles by
smuggling them into Germany through
occupied territory to avoid German
laws against importation of manufac-
tured products
The newspaper says if Americans
succeed in selling quantity, it will
ruin the German automobile indus
try. although in the same paragraph
it belittles the quality of the Ameri
can cars and warns the Germans that
they are. liable to prosecution il they
buy them.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-29
VOTE TO REPEAL TAX
House Favors Cheaper Ice Cream
and Soda Water.

Washington, July 2S.--After nearly
two hours debate and while the tenn.
perature in the chamber was hover
ing around the 100 mark, the House
today voted to repeal the 10 per cent.
tax on soda water and ice cream.
Considerable partisan politics was
injected into the discussion, and Rep
resentative Treadway. Republican, OF
Massachusetts declared the argu-
ment was evidence that the House
acted wisely in voting for recess.
The House also passed without a
record vote the bill for reduction of
teh war tay on fruit juices, as urged
by western producers.
Members said the tax, fixed at two
cents gallon, was a fiat reduction
from % cents, estimated. All amend
ments we're rejected from the bill,
which applies to non-alcoholic beyer-
ages, including loganberry, grape and
apple juice.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-29
SOLD AT sHERIFF's SALE
Half of w. D. PelIy Publishing Co.
at St. Johnsbury

ST. Johnsbury, July 2S.,To satisfy
a court judgment of $205 against the
w ID. Pelley Publishing company. $10,-
900 worth of stock, one-half the author
lied capital stock of the company, was
sold at sheriff's sale Saturday after
noon for $50 The purchaser was j.
Rolfe Searles of the law firm OF
Searles and Graves. He was the
only bidder. Searles and Graves re-
presented Joseph Brunelle & Son,
painters and decorators and the lat
ter firm petitioned the sale to recover
for work done.
The w. d. Pelley Publishing Co.
was the publisher of The Daily Cal
edonian. The president and manager.
William Dudley Pelley the short story
writer claims that he sold major
interest of the stock to Herbert A.
Smith of Boston, and Mr.. Smith is
now publishing the paper under the
name of the Evening Caledonian com-
pany.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-29
LARGE SAFE BLOWN UP
Was Located In Market Not Far
From Police Station.

New Haven, Conn, July 2S.-A
large safe in the market of E. Schoen
borger & Sons in State street, few
hundred feet from the central police
station, was wercked with explosives
during last night, probably by yegg-
men. The loss, if any, is not stated
by the firm.
After inquiry, opinion was given by
detectives that the same gang blew
the safe as carried out like opera
tion in Hartford week ago. Bits,
braces and tools used were left be-
hind. The firm members say that
money and a considerable amount of
Liberty bonds are missing.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-29
TREATY TO SENATE
President VIII Send 1t BY
Messenger.

Washington, July 29.-The France
American treaty will be sent to the
Senate today by President Wilson,
Secretary Tumulty announced that
the President would not submit
the treaty in person. He will send it
and an accompanying message by
messenger.
The President may not leave Wash
ington on his tour of the country un-
til August Is owing to the excessive
heat. Secretary Tumulty said the
trip would be made even should the
senate ratify the treaty. Meanwhile
the president wanted ito go to the
country and explain things"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-29
PURE BREEDS STOLEN
Thieves Get Poultry Belonging to
Brattleboro Man.

Brattleboro, July 27--Elijah Wales
custodian of the Masonic temple
was in Townshend yesterday investi-
eating the theft of over 40 head of
light brahma poultry which were
part of flock being raised for him
in that town by A. c. Franklin and
William Blood. They were all young
stock but were we'll bred and were
valued at over $100.
Three young pullets which got
away from the thieves were found in
different places indicating the direc-
tion in which the thieves departed.
Stolen poultry were part of a flock
of over 100 head and all were too
small for broilers so it is assumed
that whoever took them plan to raise
them. They were in coops in loca-
tion easy of access. A high priced
rooster was not taken. Mr.. Wales
plans to have 1000 of light brahmas
raised for him in Townshend next
year.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-29
STRIKES AGAINST MILK CANS
Hoosick Man Seriously Injured When
Stepping OF Train

Troy, July 2S. Harrison Philpott
of Hoosick, N. Y, is in the Troy hos
pital suffering from possible fatal IN
juries received while alighting from a
Boston & Maine passenger train at
Hoosick.
Mr.. Philpott was returning from a
business trip TO North Adams and in
getting off the train struck a num-
ber OF milk cans which are kept along
side the railroad tracks.
He was removed to the Troy hos
pital in a serious condition, having
sustained internal injuries as well as
injuries to his arms and legs.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-29
PRINTERS ARE SCARCE
The Call for Them Coming from All
Parts of Country.

New York, July 2S-Information
that there is a shortage OF men in the
printing and publishing industries and
that there are exceptionally good OPP
portunities for the employment of dis
charged soldiers and sailors in that
field has been received at the Office
here of Colonel Arthur Woods, assis-
tant secretary of war The announce
ment adds that there is room in the
printing industry not only for apprent-
ices but for men Of past experience
and considerable education. Denver
and other places in Colorado are said
to be short of printers and accord
ing to the announcement, similar
reports have been received from Iowa
and from other states all over the
country.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-29
SLIPPERY for Buddy.

Joe is thoroughly up in automobile
parlance. His baby brother was just
beginning to walk and wobbled consld-
erably. One day Joe dashed into the
kitchen shouting. ''Oh, ma, come quick
an sne Buddy skiddlng."
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-29
NAVY OFFICERS CONVICTED
On Charges in Connection with New
Rork Reservists.

Washington, July 29.--Four officers
and three petty officers of the navy
have been convicted by courts mar
tial on charges in connection with
enrolment, promotion and assign
ment to duty of reservists in the
third naval district of New Rork, the
navy department announced today.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-29
LET FIVE MILLION EGGS SPOIL
Genoa Labor and Food Disorders Side
track American Shipment

Genoa LABOR and rood Disorders Side
track American Shipment
Genoa, July 2S.-(Associated Press
Five million eggs brought here by the
American steamship Sun early in the
present month have since been decay
ing at the dock. The port authorities
say they understand the eggs were
consigned to Switzerland, and it is
not known what has caused the delay
in trans-shipment, except continual la
Dor agitation.
The consignment was 20 days in
Preaching Genoa and arrived during the
days of the food shortage in Genoa
which resulted in disorders The mu
nicipal authorities learned of the ar
rival of the shipment, but were unable
to take over the eggs. They have now
requisitioned them, however, and will
,sell the eggs to the best advantage.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-29
STREET RAIL WAY
employees TIE UP
CHICAGO SYSTEM
Fifteen Thousand Men Go On
Strike This Morning
DEMAND HIGHER WAGES
All the Surface and Elevated Systems
of the City Are Completely
Paralyzed

Chicago, Fifteen thousand street
railway employees went on a strike at
four O'Clock this morning for higher
wages. They have completely tied up
the surface and elevated systems Of
the city.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-29
UNITED STATES TO AID FRANcI
In Event Of Unprovoked Attack by
GERMANY

Washington, July 29.-President
Wilson today transmitted to the Sen
ate a special treaty by which the
United States pledges itself to come
to the aid of France in event of an un
provoked attack by Germany,
The President asked for its early
ratification, "along with treaty with
Germany.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-29
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston 5, New York l.
onIy What rhex Miaht Expect.

When people who are tolerably for
tunate in their outward lot do not find
in life sufficient enjoyment to make 1t
valuable TO them, the cause generally
is caring for nobody but themselves
J. s, Mil,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-29
NEW YoRYs FIRST CONVICTION
A Bar Tender Fined $to For Selling
A Glass of Whjskey

New York, July 2S,-The first con-
viction in this federal district for vio-
lation CT the war time prohibition act
was recorded today when the bar ten
der in saloon in the financial dis
trict was fined $40 in the United
States district court for selling a glass
of whiskey on July 3.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-29
EAST ARLINGTON

The dancing pavilion at East Arling-
ton which has been closed fer the past
few weeks will reopen Saturday even.
ing, August 2, All are welcome.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-29
PRINTING COMPANY FORMED
Gipin & Hunt of Barton Are Capita
ized at $4,000.

The Gilpin e Hunt company of Bar
ton have filed articles of association
in the Office of secretary of state for
the purpose of conducting printing
and publishing business in Barton or
other towns. Their capital stock is
$4,000 and the papers are signed by
Wallace Gilpin. f. A. Hunt and Lara
|. Gilpin of Barton.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-29
BASEBALL RESULTS
Scores Of Yesterdays Games and
Standing of Clubs.
NATIONAL LEAGUE

New York z, Brooklyn a.
Boston 5. Philadelphia 3.
Cincinnati s, Pittsburgh z
Chicago at st Louis, postponed
wet grounds.)
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-29
WEATHER FORECAST

Fair tonight and Wednesday.
Cooler tonight.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-29
TOO LATE To CLASSIFY

WANTED-Laborers Good pay for
good men. Walter f. Dix. Springfield.
Vt. 61t6'
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-29

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The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-30
!. ssy!As-csrser.

thoughts, futures together if we can
seep together our religions. This
instrument will do the business where
traits, treaties, doctrines and ALI
ances will fail US because religion is
primal, it is more than these.
Men wonder at times if it pays to
put cold hard dollars into Foreign
Missions. They go on the assumption
that it is simply the extension of a
church, society, a creed They are
usually little men of little thoughts
and little horizons. They do not
delve deeply into fundamentals. They
assume the end to be gained, the re-
suits to be accomplished, mean GER
tain number of Acknowledged brethren
signing a card to read certain num-
Der of chapters daily in native
Bible, or maintaining attendance at
the mission church, or being counted
among the ninety-and-nine in the
stories of the returned missionaries.
And how does the Acknowledged breth-
rem vitality concern them?
They miss the great theme Of re-
ligious missions entirely in mass Of
pettifoggy.
In stead of getting a certain num-
Der of weird names down on
theological cradle-roll, they are f.
nancing a stupendous, worldwide
''get-together" movement that in the
years to come is going to make the
whole world safe for democracy for
their children and their chiIdren's
children.
To save the soul of the individual
heather at the present time is good.
Results are being gained in individ-'
ual cases of rebuilding men of other
races which are uncanny.
But to save the soul of the world
three generations hence, civilized and
"uncivilized," saved and ''heathen'
-. that it is infinitely better and
finer and greater.
When we have blended religious
understanding we have blended ma
! tons and peoples as well as individ-
uals, regardless of their color And
when we come to a discussion of MAX
ing the east safe for democracy
as we must make it safe for demo
cracy if democracy is to endure-this
great work Of religious penetration
comes first; Of all other themes and
phases of social and political life,
it is the essence and foundation.
The Far East is very near to us
in the west. It is just at the end Of
the sunset trail.
/ We are only few miles, only few
days, apart. Yet there is a planet
and an cycle between US.
Yet there is a way to bridge the
planet and cycle just as there has
been found way to bridge the miles
and the days Science has done the
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-30
MAKING THE FAR EAST SAFE
FOR DEMOCRACY
1.-The Sunset Trail

We call il the Far East, but it ism
the far east at all. That term orr
ginated in Europe. For Europe per-
haps the term has meaning. To call
it the far east here in America means
going three-quarters around the
globe. Which is a waste of effort,
words and imagination.
For US American folk it shotli
be the Near West. You board a
Japanese steamer at San Frncisco.
You sail away from the Ferry House
clock, the low-lying buildings along
the dock, the old Panama Exposition
fair grounds, out through the Golden
Gate and into the heart of the sunset.
You while away the hours gazing
over the mighty blues of the broad
Pacific The engine sings you to
sleep with it's heart-throb all the
night. The bells mark off your mimic
eternity. The swing and the swish
of the pillows are the only evidences
of life in your play infnity. The time
passes quickly Some rare morning
when the sea air is like wine, the
cry comes that one of your fellow
passengers, has discerned Fujiyama
When you come up from the saloon
and luncheon that afternoon you are
sailing up long Toxic Bay toward
Yokohama. You're in Japan. You
stand at the door of the Orient. You
are in the Far East. And you can't
believe it. 1t is altogether too neal
home. 1t comes to you as shock
how very open is the broad ocear
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-30
AIRMEN HAVE THEIR THRILLS

IN little estaminet some way from
the front several officers had finished
dinner and were dawdling over their
liqueurs. The conversation had turn
ed upon what it felt like to go over
the top.
Smithson had Just been holding
forth. and he turned chafingly to
to make up four, and remarked !:
Anyway, you air merchants escape
thati'
"Do WEI" answered the balloon Of
f1eer, removing his pipe. "rll just tell
you what it feels like for US to make
forced parachute descent.
Il was up one day, very low visible
ity, squatting just under the clouds,
when without warning three Boche
planes swooped down.
Every machine gun and Archie in
the neighborhood started eff for miles
around. | felt bit dazed, but realiz-
ing what was up, yelled to the other
fellow with me to get over, took off my
telephone mouthpiece and scrambled
to the edge of the basket. Instinctively
I saw the panorama around, the white
zfg-zag of trenches in front and be-
hind the dull gray sea, with here and
there ship. remember thinking i'm
personally what long way to the
ground 5000 feet was!
'But, drawing a breath, over |
went and dropped 200 feet. when the
ropes began to tighten around me, and
realized in flash the parachute had
opened.
II saw the other chap floating away
beneath me and I couldn't help think
ing we must look like a number OF
mushrooms chasing each other. Sud
denly the earth rushed up to meet me
with an awful bang and I found N.Y.
self mixed up with some sheds. But
actually I had alighted quite gracefully
| and was only bruised and suffering
slightly from shock.
1T really wasn't much except for
| the first awful leap. and even that was
afterward compensated for by dear
old lady to whom I showed the para
chute spread out at home and who re-
marked: How clever it was to have
| jumped from a balloon into such a
small sheet"
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-30
MASONIC NOTICES

Passurnpsic Lodge, No. ~, z. & A
Called communication Friday even
ing, Jan. 81, at 7.30 o'clock. Work,
F. C. degree. Good attendance de-
sired. Visitors welcome.
Regular Communication, Thursday
evening, Feb. Is, at 7.30, for despatch
of business.
Orville N. Pinney, w. M.
Fred Fl. Dolloff, Secretary
Haswe1l Royal Arch Chapter No. II
Stated Convocation Friday even
ing, February IA, at 7.30 p. m.
Birney L. Hall, e. FL. P.
F. G. Moore, Secretary
Palestine Commandery, No. S, K. T
Tuesday evening, Feb. a at 7.30 p
M, rehearsal.
Stated Conclave Tuesday evening
Feb. II, at 7.30 p. m.
z. S. Waterman, Com.
A. M. Lang, Recorder.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-30
Fifty Dollars for Newfoundland.

Henry VII was so pleased with the
discoverer of Newfoundland, the first
colony added to the crown, that he pre-
sented him with a $50 note. Mr.. E.
Hall of the Navy league alluded to this
circumstance at a meeting Of the So
ciety of Engineers at Burlington
House. The first effort to colonize for
the British empire, he said, was mace
In 1900.
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Trials All Have Value.

Trials without discover forces with.
in. Says Victor Hugo: 'sThere ara
instincts for all the crises of life.n
A deep perpIexity awakens a flash of
insight; a bitter opposition sets the
soul on fire; d grave peril opens our
eyes to horses and chariots of fire:
severe catastrophe eyokes a heroism
of which the sufferer had not thought
hiH1self capable.-W. L. Watkinson.
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one. Religion is doing. the other.

one. Religion is doing the other.
It's a small-sou1ed man who crit
icizes religious missions in these STIR
ring years upon which we have fall
len.
He advertises thereby his own
smallness.
He is blocking the pathway of
world progress and doesn't know it.
But the times will find him out.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-30

Entered as second-class matter
May 1, 1916, at the post office at st.
Johnsbury, Vermont, under the act
of March 5 1879.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-30

Perhaps the best we can expect is
that we'll all be a little less the
fool this coming year because of what
we have experienced in the year
which has gone.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-30
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS

Apollo Lodge, No. 2. Regular
meeting Tuesday evening, Feb. 4, a
7.3O.
II. w. Clark, C. C.
Fl. E. Anderson, z. R. & S.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-30

One of the satisfactions of peace
is the Liberty Bond one has in his
strong box,
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-30

AS members of the Associated
Press that organization is entitled
exclusively to the use for republica-
ton of all news dispatches credited
to it or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news pub
lished herein. All rights of republi-
cation of special dispatches herein
are also res erved.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-30

1t will be one hell of heaven
that the Kaiser goes to.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-30

Every one sees Theodore's virtues
now that he is dead.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-30

Speed is . mans attempt to prevent
waste of time.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-30

Pep, like muscle, withers when it
is not used.
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 80, 1919
Lies Dreary Path

A lie is always a liability. Think
it over.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-30

TERMS-By mail, 81 year; six
months 81; three months, 81. Deliv-
cred by carrier in st. Johnsbury at
SO cents a month. All subscriptions
by order of the government are
payable in advance.
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Published daily, except Sundays
w. D. Pelley Publishing Co.. Inc.
rs Eastern Avenue
St. Johnsbury, VT. Telephone $50
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-04-23

ginning. But it should be faithfully pre-
served for it's especial purpose, and increas-
ed regularly until used, when new fund
should be started.
There is no use waiting to start until
things get easier or better. That time
never comes to those who wait for it. The
thing to do is to begin just when it seems
utterly impossible, to consider payment to
the fund as something owing to ones self
and to be met like any other obligation. 1t
is amazing how things will fall in line when
once the start is made
At least one golden opportunity comes
to almost everybody. The family which
has it's bit of capital can seize the chance
and go on to that prosperity which is the
dream of humanity. Those lacking such
comfortable provision must see the oppor-
tunity pass by, leaving them behind to
their wasted years and lack Of foresight,