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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-18
Folks Would Poster Me"

Somebody asked an old Missouri soekeeper why
@e he didn't put small advertisement in the local news
paper advertise home BLEND" Of coffee that
particularly good
Il don't wanta," he replied azly If did, folks
would poster all the time to show em my goods
Thus did old Missouri orekeeper pay
scious tribute the business getting value of adver
Using He missed lot of business Of course, but
there's another side Of it
Lots Of people who really wanted this particular
brand Of coffee unable to get it because
told them where it was to be had -
You know yourself that it would take you twice as
long to shop if there advertisements to guide
you in your buying You wouldn't know where to
start You'd miss lot of good values just because
told you about them
The who advertses glad to have you poster
him to show you his goods Don't miss the adver- J. r~
isemens. They will you money SoaTEg
Ks '
8&~ SSya E3ssTe
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-18

TO RENT 49, Two large heated FUR
pished rooms for light housekeeping.
Inquire after Z PM at i17 Main street
g6tgs
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-18

Observation-Disclosures workmeu pre-.
ferred. Apply to Mrs. Barton, los VAL
entne Place. 27t6s
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-02
FINANCE FOR RAILWAYS
Is NEW BIG PROBLEM

Director General Hines has been
holding many conferences with rail-
road men since the adjournment Of
congress, with the idea Of discovering
some method by which the railroads
may meet their obligations and pro-
vide for their Immediate needs. While
projects ~chargeable to capital account,
whether in progress or contemplated,
are to be curtailed. the principle has
been determined upon of meeting the
situation through financing, rather
than by a general suspension of work,
which would have a deterrent effect
upon business generally. With refer
ence to the April l requirements OF
the roads for interest, dividends, and
other corporate needs, II has been de-
eided that the railroad administration
shall issue its certificates OF indebted
ness to the railroad corporations for
amounts due on account of renewal
and other transactions arising out OF
federal control. II is estimated that
the amount of the April l requirements
will be approximately $40, 000, 600. On
the security of these certificates of
indebtedness the wal finance corpora
ton Is prepared to make advances to
the railroads. The loans so made will
be cleared through the Federal Reserve
bank of New York.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-02
JAPAN IN MEXICO

In spite OF all the smooth, unctuous professions OF friendship
Japan is trying to obtain a foothold in Mexico. and. it seems l.
IN a tar way OF doing so. During his i~ncumbency of the presi-
dental chair l1iaz sold to an American syndicate one million
acres of land in Lower California. the proceeds Of which went
INTO his own pocket, as was his custom, He held no title to the
land, and had no power to ALLEVIATE it, and could give no title to
It, lie was presidents of the republic. elected by loyal bavonets
and this made him supreme. The American syndicate sDent 4
million dollars in irrigatng and otherwise improving the land,
and coIonized 1t with American farmers.
When Diaz was ousted these American farmers we're driven
out, and later on the act Of Daz was declared null and void
and the land was restored to its rightful owners the neonIc ~
Lower California. 1t is said the Japanese have come into con-
troll of these lands, having obtained the right from the Nevic,n
government, under the suave Carranza, and this is giving orr
government at Washington much concern. When the United
mates took over the Hawaiian islands. thus establishing a great
naval base in the Pacific, it was a bitter pill for the Nipponesc.
and when later the Philippines were annexed after the war with
Spain, the laps saw control Of the Pacific slipping away from
them, and their cherished control of the Far East put in
jeopardy. Ever since they have been irving to countcrail these
american advantages by obtaining a foothold in Mexico at our
very doors.
Japan is one of our allies, and is represented at the r.,c.
opnterence. Japan is altruisuc and eloquent in protestanons of
unsallshness, but even the less informed need not be told tha,
tNetJap is impatient over the exclusion of his neonle iron, ,hEs
country. lie wants an outlet and a place in the sun for his
surplus millions, and as the allies will not permit him 70 o,cr
run China, which is already too densely populated his v . ,ro
turhed toward this continent, American citizens gave him his
foothold IN Southern California, and VIC may be SIRE that III,
MfNcans will do all in their power to make his entrance 70 tina,
country safe and permanent, Anything that will emharrass n,
menace America will be joyfuly welcomed by the Mexicans
who entertain an implacable hatred for this country. The estab
hhment OF a little Japan at our door would give the islant
enpire the opportunty it has SO long sought to menace us. Hei
a<nies could be secretly modified and held in readiness fol
attack on us, and especially on California, at any time American
land grabbers opened the door for the laps, who cannot be tot
severely blamed for entering. These land pirates have brought
their country into an attitude which may lead to something
worse than BOshevism, because a war with Japan would be
costly affair And there is no telling to what other compica
fiofp it may lead. Eyentuahties musA be provided aganst.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-02
GROUND WATER SOURCES

The United States geological survey.
department Of the interior, has just is
sued a photography and index OF its
publications on ground water and re-
lated subjects, such as windmills,
pumps and other lifting devices, meth
DDS Of water analysis, and methods of
measuring the flow OF water.
! The geological sLt vey's Hydrologic In
yestlgationE include work ON both sur
face and ground water. but this bibli-
ography. as It's title indicates, covers
only the surveys reports on ground
water, The photography lists more
than 500 papers, Of which more than
300 relate primarily to the subject Of
ground water. 1t contains brief alb
stracts OF most Of the reports listed.
A detailed index Of over 100 pages con-
stitutes the larger part of the pamphlet,
which contains also a map Of the United
States showing the area covered by
zach report.
A copy Of the photography, which is
published as W~ater-Supply Paper 4a7.
may be obtaiend on application to the
director OF the geological survey, Wash
inptOn u &
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-02
CICADA IS REAL NAME
OF COMING INSECT PEST

Be scientific; call the "~17-year To-
Gust by its right name, the periodical
cicada, and no one will worry about 1t,
says II. f. Wilson, entomologist at the
Wisconsin experiment station. Cicadas
are common insects, but locusts are
reminders of the scourge Of locusts in
biblical days and the grasshoppers, or
true %locusts, of the early days in the
Southwest.
Even the orchard mans fear of the
effect of this particular cicada Is not
very well founded, judging from the
information entomologists have about
the insect, for other members of the
tribe appear each year and injure the
shade and orchard trees in exactly the
same way.
The injury is the result of the cica-
da's laying eggs in the twigs OF trees.
From the aSgs the larvae OF the insect
hatch. The twig enlarges at that point,
growth Is interrupted and sooner or
later the twig rots and breaks off. The
only treatment Is to prune off the parts
affected. No preventive methods are
considered necessary by either hortl-
culturists or entomologists at the sta
ton.
Charts of the different broods Of the
so-called locusts have been prepared by
entomologists of the United States de-
partment of agriculture, says Mr.. Will
son, and they show that the brood ex-
pected this year Is No. 10. Seventeen
years ago 1t was reported In Wiscon-
sin only in Dane county. The last brood
appeared In 1918 n was quite gen.
orally scattered we the state.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-02
WHAT WAR COST COUNTRY
IN DOLLARS AND CENTS

According to a review made by Rep
resentatiye Cordell Hull, of the house
ways and means committee, the total
cost of the war to the United States
from April 6, 1917, to June 80, 1919,
will be $40, 205, 900, 900. Compared with
the war costs to the allies from August
|, 1914, to date, this is three-fourths
the size of England's war expenditure,
$40, $40, 900, 900; o~ne-fourth larger than
the debt of France, approximately $685.
400, 900, 900; twice is large, almost as
the debt of Italy, $16, 000, 600, 900; and
fifteen times the war debt of Canada,
81, 900, 000, 900. The cost to Germany
has been estimated at $45, 500, 900 600.
Compared to the cost of the whole Civil
var period, fixed in 1879 at Sc, 1870, 000,-
900, the war Just closed cost five times
more. Exclusive of losses in property
and materials, which probably will
never be known, the cost of the var
in money or its equivalent, according
TO Mr.. Hull, amounts to 5000, 900, 900 900,
or within $50, 900, 900, 900 of the esti-
mated wealth of the United States.
Interest charges on the total indebted
ness of the allies will amount to ST.
900, 900, 900 annually. Mr.. Hull says
this nation can without difficulty meet
and pay off its obligations far in ad-
vance of other nations, and that I'VE
should soon be ablo to get cur normal
expenditures down to Il permanent
peace level Of not over $4,000, 0OO, O00.'
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-02

10 Years Ago Today In Memphis.
p 2. 1909.

APRIL 2, 1909.
Gang Of boy burglars led by two
women OF good department known to
the gang as Silver Heels and Red Wing
We're captured by Deputy SheTiffs Earl
X. Barnard n W. T. Griffin. Corner
stores in the south end had suffered.
The convention OF the Woman's
Home Missionary society that had been
on in Memphis for W laws closed.
Mrs. John l.. Richmond, Of Memphis,
was elected superintendent of press and
literature.
IL was announced that the tax assess
Inent Tor Memphis would be around
600.
Thirty true bills are returned by the
grand jury, including one against Mar
tin Sullivan, charged with murder in the
ilrst degree. He was accused Of killing
his brother, Patrick Sullivan.
Presley Barrett, accused of shooting
and killing Frank Smith in the Windsor
hotel was released under a bond Of
Bond Of Mrs. Carrie r. Wolff, charged
with violating the four-mile law, was
declared forfeited when she failed to
appear for trial. She had been dubbed
by z. N. Estes, attorney-general, as the
r~oadhouse queen of Shelby.
The Affinity Athletic club was incor-
pSorafed with George P. Schlocker, W.
ston, w. V. Redpath and r. Mowatt
named as the directors of the club. Its
purpose was to give boxing shows and
athletic entertainments.
The Memphis team held the st. Louis
Nationals TO a to 3 count. Sallee,
Rhodes and Phelps served for st. Louis;
for Memphis.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-02
SPINACH is FALL CROP.

Spinach thrives under rather cool eli
matte conditions, and mdy be grown
as a fall planted winter crop through
out the South. In the middle section
OF the country 1t is necessary to mulch
the spinach plants with straw or leaves
to protect them from the cold, In the
Northern states spinach may be plant
ed just as early as the ground can he
worked and the crop gathered before
the heat of summer comes on.
Spinach may be planted in the spaces
between other plants. One ounce of
seed win SOW at least 100 feet of row,
Spinach is easily grown, and there is
perhaps no other crop Of its kind that
will give as much satisfaction, Spinach
green's are very desirable as q spring
vegetable.-united States Department
Of Agriculture.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-02

II a dreaded fate instead of the end
Of a great adventure.
Therefore, girls, be chary Of your
kisses. Remember, the fewer they are
the more valuable, and never, never
enter into a long engagement. Make
the man who wants you feel that he
must hustle to get you and be quick
about il.
Copyright. 1919. by the Wheeler Syn
dictate, Incl
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-02
DIDN'T KNOW,

One of our good housekeepers knows
she has no ear for music. but, when
she is busting around her pots and
pans and %scrubbing and washing out
tea towels she can not restrain hum
ming a bit just out of her cleaning
up joy. Now there is also a little neigh
Dor boy who plays under her window.
Once, while the process of %scrubbing
was going on above, the little fellow
looked up at the window with a face
all puckered and serious, as If some
question had been troubling him for
quite a while.
well, Tommy, what's the matter?'
inquired the housekeeper. -
A long pause-then, please ma'am,
is you singing?"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-02
NO FIREPRooF AIN

From tests made at the bureau OF
standards, II appears that, while practi-
cally all paint eoatings have some fire
retarding action, nom OF those so far
tested afford very great protection. All
the samples In question were materially
damaged by application of flame for a
few seconds. Both sodium sillcate and
whitewash rank comparatively high.
These have the advantage of C~heapness
and can both be used on the same sur
face. However, according to a recent
bulletin OF the bureau, no treatment Of
wood after erection can be expected to
serve ms an effective fire protection, and
the use Of such materials should not be
made an excuse for emitting any OF tho
tific American.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-02
TheP Public Be SerUed
SWISS cHARD pELIoATE:

Swiss chard is closely related to COM
mon garden beets, but is grown eX-
CluSively for its leaf stems. which are
used as greens. II is one Of the garden
vegetables that have come into favor IN
recent years, n deserves much more
attention from home gardeners. Per
haps no garden crop used for greens
will give so large a return on a small
area or continue to produce through so
great a period Of time.
Plant the seeds the same as common
garden beets and thin the plants TO
six inches in the row. The trimmings
may be used for early green's. As the
season advances the outer leaves can
be pulled from the remaining plants
and used, while the plants go on pro-
ducing greens. The variety known as
Lucullus iss most commonly grown
United States Department of Agricul-
ture.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-02
LITERALLY RIGHT.

Shoeless he climbed the stairs,
opened the IGOR of the room, entered
and closed it after him without being
detected. Just as he was about to
get into bed his wife, half aroused
from slumber, turned and sleepily said
us that you, Fido?'
The husband, telling the rest of the
story, said:
For once in my life I had real pres
ence of mind. l licked her hand
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-02
A BUT TRUE.

A barrister, not so discreet as he
might have been in the expression Of
his ideas. was engaged on a case con-
corning some pigs.
Gentlemen of the jury" he began,
there were "a pigs in the drove, just
"a; exactly twice as many as there are
in that jury box"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-02

HER NAME is Dorothy.
AND BEFORE came here.
TO THE Belvedere hotel.
AT SANTA Barbara.
l USED to know her.
AND SHE'S a lovely girl.
AND YESTERDAY afternoon.
SHE WANTED to know.
If MY wife and l.
WERE INTERESTED in polo.
AND BECAUSE we'd never seen it.
WE SAID we were,
AND SHE took US out.
TO THE polo field.
AND THERE were five men.
AND ONE girl.
ALL MOUNTED on horses.
AND THEY had clubs.
THAT LOOKED like croquet mallets.
WITH LONG handles.
AND THERE was a white ball.
AND THEY started,
AND THE object was.
TO MAKE the horses.
RUN AFTER the ball.
AND THEN for the rider,
TO SWING the mallet.
AND HIT the ball
AND TRY to drive 1t.
BETWEEN A couple of posts,
AND EVERY little while,
ONE OF the riders,
WOULD SWING his mallet.
AND MISS the ball,
AND HIT another rider.
OR ONE OF the horses.
AND AFTER a while.
ONE OF the riders.
MADE A swing at the ball.
AND HIT the lady,
RIGHT IN the face,
AND THE lady bled.
BUT SHE couldn't stop.
BECAUSE THE game wasn't finished
AND THEY kept on playing.
AND RIDING around,
AND CHASING the ball.
AND ALL tho time,
THE LADY was bleeding.
FROM THE hole in her face,
AND 1T dripped down
AND GOT on her waist.
OR ONTO her coat.
OR WHATEVER It is,
THAT LADIES wear.
WHEN THEY play polo.
AND IT made me sick.
JUST LOOKING at her,
AND THE game stopped.
AND THEY all drove off.
PAST WHERE we were,
AND THE lady ven in.
AND HAD her face patched up.
AND ALL the players,
THEY CAME around.
AND SHOOK hands with each other
AND PERSONS IN the auto.
AND THEY laughed and talked.
AND ALL agreed.
IT WAS a very good game.
AND VERY exciting
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-02

As tho first mayor of Memphis Mar
Gus r. Winchester was a notable fig
ure in the early history of the city.
From 1897 to 1929 he held the reius
Of office. Memphis at hat time had
a population under 1000. Heating,
IN his History of Memphis, says; lie
was a ~singularly handsome man, Of
winning manners, polished address, for
the time rather foppish in dress and,
therefore, a great contrast to his sur
r~oundinEs, He had the confidence Of
all of the people, especially OF the poor.
and opened accounts with his slaves so
that they could purchase their free
DOM" He was also n friend Of the
celebrated Fannie Wright. and aided
her In her scheme for negro educa-
ton.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-02

. RND She PUTS on q
re CORD CALLED "cARPerTUo
By LASI6NT
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-02

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20
Treasury Certificates
Heavily Ovcrsubscrihed

WASHINGTON, April 19.-n an
nouneinr to-day that the ninth bi-
weekly Offering of Treasury certificates
Of indebtedness in anticipation of the
Victory Liberty Loan had boon over
subscribed by nearly 30 per cent, Sec
rotary Glass mentioned that a sub
script'on of $40 100000 hy the lapaneae
government had been reported from the
New York Federal Kcacrve niatrict,
"Thc action of the lapaneac govern
mcnt," said Il Treasury statement, "ia
very helpful in it's eject upon intor.
national exchange and Is greatly arprc
ciatcd by the Troasury.'
Secretary Glass said the total sub
scrptions to certificates aggregated
S6A6,02A 800 on an Offering of $500 900.
ooo. The total amount of certificates
now outstanding is approximately
5,S7S,000. All the Federal Reserve
Districts except Atlanta San Francisco
and Kansas City oversubscribed their
quotas on the latest certificate issue.
The next regular bi-weekly Offering
of certificates. due April "a, will be de-
fcrred until May I and will serve to re
fund the balance outstanding Of GER
tlticates maturing Nav g.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20
International Paner.

Regarding the position of the Inter
national Paper Company, WTenn Bros.
& Co. say: at is likely that this
company and other American producers
Of newsprint will soon have to endure
partial return to the highly competi-
tive conditions which existed before the
war. Our exports of newsprint in
creased from S6G00,OO0 pounds in 1913
to 1913, 800, 900 in 1918, mostly because
we We're making up for the decrease in
French paper output consequent upon
the German occupation and for the
great reduction in the European supply
of Swedish wood pulp. From 1915 to
IVY Sweden's exports of dry sulphte
pulp alone decreased more than 2O0,-
100000 pounds, according to consular
reports When industries recover from
the war effects much of our export
market for newsprint will be lost, and
we may expect keener competition from
the Canadian paper mills. In 1913 the
international earned $1S.47 on it's com
mon stock against $34 the previous
year and an average of about 81 just
before the war. The ordinary margin
of profit in the production of news
print Is inadequate, and it ought to pay
IN the long run to exchange the com
mon stock of this company into good
coppers, and exchange the preferred
INTO preferred steelS''
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20
Money, Credit and Exchange

Loans ard discounts of the New York
Clearing House banks contracted $780,
495,00 last week, the total standing at
S4,915, 100000, according to the state
ment issued yesterday. Net demand de-
osits increased 78,503, 900 to $4,01l,-
$4,000.
United States government deposits
with the banks fell from $377, 100000 to
12,649,O00. Surplus reserves at the
end of the week amounted to S56,096,-
800, an increase of 3,079, ,03O.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New
York reported gold in it's vaults and to
its credit in the gold settlement fund
amounting to s432,123, ,O37, against
$780,, ,808,864 the week before.
Redscounts and advances of the Re-
serve Bank against government obhga-
tions were $67l, ,695, 5,507, compared with
S492, ,268 the preceding week.
Federal Reserve notes of the bank
outstanding increased $4,000, 600, to
$500, ,433 $3.50
Discount Rates.-Inc following table
gives the current rates of the twelve
Federal Reserve banks on commercial
paper for all periods up to ninety days,
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20

no longer restrict such credits to sixty,
ninety or 100 days and render to
manufacturers and exporters the SER
vice which the present REIMBURSEMENT
period makes imperative.
England and Germany built up
their great foreign trade prior to 1914
largely by maxim six months time the
selling basis for their goods. II we
are to hold our own in foreign trade,
we must profit the experience Of
other coungtries and adapt ourselves
to the needs of the present situation.
The war has taught US many lessons;
peace will teach us more We have
learned, for instance. that our existing
banking system. predicated upon elias
ITCHY, is to-day probably the strongest
in the world But we now need to de-
velop greater elasticity IN our banking
methods, particularly in our point OF
view regarding credits for the foster
ing OF our foreign trade. This is espe-
cally demanded in the selling of our
manufactured articles overseas. al
though it holds true to some extent in
the selling of raw materials also.
"The unpegging of sterling and franc
exchange, recently, has surely made
clear to MS the condition which is
bound to prevail if we continue to in
sst upon the short term credits which
we have held to in the past. When the
British and French governments with
drew their support to sterling and
franc exchange. respectively, the ten
dency, naturally. was to pat the Ameri-
can dollar at premium in England
and France, which means that it takes
more francs and shillings to equal II
dollar and, consequently. less imported
goods can be purchased for an Ameri-
can dollar in those countries than was
possible prior to the unpegging of the
exchanges.
Depreciation in the foreign cx-
changes, Mr.. Sabinx said, will tend to
discourage the buying of American
goods and eventually will result in
serious curtailment of our foreign
trade. unless we counteract that ten
dency by extending credits for a suf-
ticient period to enable purchases of
our products abroad to pay us at a
more convenient time.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20
Cotton Markets Position

The situation in the cotton market is
summarized thus by jerks. Gwynne 4
Co: "While we are of the opin-
ion that the distant outlook for the
cotton market is rather bright, we arc
aversc to becoming too optimistic for
the immediate future. In the first place
it seems probable that large part OF
the trade may become too hopeful of
immediate results in the shape of q
very large export demand after the set
Element of peace, as evidenced by the
rapidly growing speculative interests or
the long side Secondly, the recent ad-
vance Of several hundred points, with
out any appreciable setback, has appa-
rcntly been the means of building ur
an over--large interest on the con
structive side of the market. We
therefore, feel that it is extremely y
dangerous to make purchases at the
present time, as any adverse develop
ment might result in sharp decline in
values, owing to the apparent weakness
of the technical position of the mar
ket"