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champion Of Israel in many wild fray
across the border into the rich lowlands of
Philistia."
Frazer reasons that while Samson was
hero to the Jews, Delilah must have been
O heroine and national deliverer to the
Philistines--a far nobler and more ad-
miracle character than the strong man.
Many persons have been puzzled by the
story In the Bible of how Joseph hid
silver cup in his brothers sack and then
sent after them and charged them with
stealing the cup. When they came back,
Joseph said:
What deed ia this that ye have done?
Know ye not that such a man as I can
indeed divine7"
Frazer explains this to he reference
to the divining cup. which was used VI
ancient Egypt and is still in favor am0 :
savage tribes as means of tndng ?'h
secrets.
The story of the ravens feeding El jaE
the author thinks, was PROBABLY opgSe t''
by the prevalence OF these birds negr th2
Dead Sea and their ancient reputation inr
wisdom, due 20 their power Of Initial
the human voice and their habit OF feedus
on the dead.
Frazer devotes much rpace to showing
that a story OF great food prevailed
among all the primitive peoples Of tho
world, including the American Indians He
argues that the Biblical story Of the f!cod
is deIlved from the Babylonan legend.
The Babylonian narrative cannot be de-
rived from the Hebrew, since II Is older
by at leas' eleven or twelve centuries
Frazer is inclined to explain the Pahv
lonian and Hebrow traditions Of great
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lower valley of the Guphrates and Tigris
is annually exposed by tho heavy rains
and melting SHOWS in the mountains of
Armenia
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~IR JAMES GEORGE FRAZER, author
of "'rhe Golden Bough," and the most
A. noted anthropologist in Great Brit
ain, has now published a brilliant and con-
troversial work in which he explains many
famous Bible stories in the light OF modern
folklore study.
The distinguished scientist shows that
the most striking Bible narratives, such
as the story of mans fall, are susceptible
eff an entirely different explanation from
the usually accepted one, when they are
Considered in connection with our present
',Enowledge of folklore and ancient myths
and customs. His studies on this subject
are contained in a great three-volume
work, Folklore in the Old Testament"
opublished by Macmillan & Co.
apeAcccrling to Sir James Frazer, we have
formed a very imperfect idea of what hap.
,pened in the Garden Of Eden, when Adam
and Eve partook OF the apple. The tree
:of the knowledge of good and evil" occu-
!Ties the centre of the stage, but. Frazer
tolls u.s. when we look closer, we per.
ut sive seCond tree standing side by side
with tho other in the midst OF the garden.
1T is q very remarkable tree, for 1t Is no
less than the tree OF life whose fruit
Tconfers Immortality on all who ent of it.
"Yet In the actual story of the fall this
wonderful tree plays no part. It's fruit
?hangs there on the boughs ready to be
'plucked: unlike the tree OF knowledge, II
is hedged about by no divine prohibition,
yet no one thinks 1t worth while to taste
oof the luscious fruit and live forever.
lathe eyes of the actors are all turned
on the tree of knowledge; they appear not
to see the tree OF life. Only when all is
over does God bethink himself Of the won
drous tree standing there, neglected, with
all it's infinite possibilities in the midst OF
The garden, and fearing lest man, who
has become like Him In knowledge by
eating of the one tree, should become like
Him in Immortality by eating Of the other,
lie drives him from the garden and sets
rs6'n angelic squadron, with flaming swords,
TO guard the approach to the tree OF life,
that none henceforth may eat of It's magic
'fruit and live forever"
!' in support Of HIS statement that there
was "a tree of life" as well as "a tree OF
knowledge Frazer cites Genesis, Chapter
iii, 22 to "a.
He then argues that the tree Of life"
must have played a more important role
In an earlier version, that the tree OF
knowledge" was really the tree OF
death" and that God intended man TO eat
'of the tree of life" when he told him he
could eat of every tree but one. The
original story was composed to explain
bow death came among mankind. The
name Of "the tree of death" has been
changed into tree of the knowledge of
good and evil" in the Bible.
The serpent persuaded Eve To partako
OF the tree OF death" in order tbst be
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with sign Of frightfulness and shame,
the former according better with the prim.
tive estimate Of a murderer's status in
society. The usual Interpretation that God
affixed the mark to Cain to save him from
human assailants 10 unreasonable, because
there was nobody to assail him, since the
earth was inhabited only by the murderer
himself and his parents"
Frazer tells us that the story of the
finding Of Moses In the bulrushes and his
subsequent upbringing presents features
which may reasonably be suspected OF be-
longing to the realm OF folklore rather
than OF history. The Bible tells us that
Moses was doomed by Pharaoh 10 be de-
stroyed with other Hebrew children at
birth, that an Egyptian woman took pity
on him and hid him by the Niles brink,
where Pharaoh's daughter found him and
brought him up. Frazer proves that many
primitive races had legends Of early
horoes, like King Gilgamesh OF the Baby.
lonlans, who were left by cruel persons to
die in Infancy and then mirsculously
rescued.
"ft has been conjectured." says tho
author. that in stories like that of the
exposure OF the infant Moses on the water
we have a reminiscence Of an old custom
OF testing the legitimacy of children by
throwing them into the water and leaving
thom TO swim or sink, the infants which
swan 0Nng accepted as legitimate and
those which sank being rejected a. illeSiti-
zoe
The famous story OF Jacob apd Esaa Is
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England's Greatest Anthropologist Asserts
That Jehovah Only Meant to Protect
.AbePs Slayer from His Brothers Ghost
and Reverses the
Accepted Interpretation
of Many Bible Stories

Frazer quotes the myths OF the
Phoenicians and many ancient
peoples to show that they at.
tributed extraordinary wisdom
and longevity to the serpent.
Then the author makes the
remarkable discovery that the
brand set upon Cain was not a
disgrace, but perhaps a form
OF protection or a tribal dis
tlnction. When Cain was
driven o t Of society for mur-
dering his brother Abel, the
Bible tells US God "set a mark
upon Cain, lest any finding him
should kill him." Some writer's
think that this mark was some
badge used by fighting tribes
indicating that he belonged to
a community that would
avenge his murder. Among
the fierce Bedouins to-day one
OF the chief tribal badges is
a way Of wearing the hair.
Frazer, however, believes
that Jehovah was really kindly
disposed toward Cain-"this
first Mr.. Smith, for Cain means
Smith," as the author tells us.
Cain was probably protected
by the Lark set upon him from
his victims ghost, not branded
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-07-19
BEATS ANY BURGLAR ALARM
Exceedingly Unlikely That Thieves
viii Ever Rife the National
Treasury Of AMMAN.

A Frenchman returned with an ac-
count Of singular national treasury
IN AMMAN If the story is true-and
II presents no essential improbnblity-
the treasury is In no danger of rob
berry and Is destined to become ia
nous.
Now, in AMMAN iron safes OF good
resisting power are for the most
part unknown, and, unfortunately,
adrolt thieves are not. To defend his
most costly treasures the native ruler
had to resort to some means In hnr-
muny with the natuFal circumstances
Of the country.
Armed guards he could not fully
trust. Animals do not steal money,
and nature had supplied the ruler with
n creature that could not be wheedled
nor killed except with great deal Of
trouble The crocodile is such an ami
NAL, The ruler would have the crocO-
die guard his specie reserve.
Yet to avail himself of the services
of the crocodile he must keep his
money In a place where crocodiles are
at home, Nothing was more simple,
In the interior OF bis palace the ruler
caused to be constructed large tank
or basin, which he kept filed with
water. Then he took several teak logs,
which he had bored with holes, and
into these he put his specie reserve of
gold and silver The holes were closed
up and the logs put into the tank,
Then some crocodiles of the largest
and fiercest description were installed
I'm the tank and maintained there-not
being fed, however, with such a super
fluffy rs to interfere with their natu-
raj ferocity. Any person who should
undertake to reach the treasure-laden
logs would surely he eaten by the
crocodiles. And any one who should
undertake. to put the saurians out of
the way would have to make noise
enough to attract the attention Of the
human guards and of the ruler him.
self, for he, by AMMAN custom, is re.
qured to remain very closely In his
palace.
At any rate the royal crocodile treas
ury has never been robbed-and il
cannot burn.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-07-19
KAISER'S YOUNGEST SON
KILLED HIMSELF SUNDAY
Most Popular Member of Former
Ruling Family and the Only One
Wounded During the War

Berlin, July Is. CBy the Associated
Press) Prince Joachim OF Hohenzo-
ern, youngest son Of former Emperor
William, committed suicide today in
Potsdam
Joachim is believed to have been In
financial straits. He recently was di-
yorced.
Prince Joachim was born December
II. 1890 in Berlin. He served in the
late war on both the western and east
ern fronts. During the first year OF
the war he was wounded in the fight
ing in France and for a long time 1t
was feared that he would not recover
When he did recover he was trans
ferred to the Russian front, where he
had several narrow escapes from cap
Iture and afterwards suffered a serious
illness.
After the defeat OF the Germans,
there were rumors that Emperor vii
Ham would abdicatc in favor of
joachim ''
| Joachim was married in 1916 to Prin
cess Marie Augustine Of Anhalt, who
then was Just II years old. 4 dispatch
from Paris early In the present year
IHad Joachim had brought a suit fol
divorce.
! The prince during the war ranked
as popular hero in Germany. Since
the end Of the war little has been
heard Of Joachim. One report was tC
the erect that he hoped to come to the
United States after the peace treaty
was signed.
! Later adyices say Prince Joachim
shot himself Saturday While in hi.
Ire idenco the villa Leignitz, Pots
dam. He was removed to St. Joseph,
hospital where he died a few hour.
tlater.
Joachim recently had been suffer
ing from great mental depression
The only member OF the former i'm
lperial flmily now in Potsdam is Eita
Frederick, the former emperors sec
ond son.
Prince Eitel, questioned as to thu
motive for his brothers suicide, de
clined to make any statement, refer
ring the correspondent at the sam
time to the official announcement tha
Joachim was suffering from "a fit 0
Iexce3siye dementia."
The body was transferred to Pots
dam chapel this morning Prime
Joachim was the least talented of TIL
emperor's sons. He held the rank @
captain but. according to statement
now made, he was never actively a
the front He leaves one son.
The whereabouts of Prince Ade
bert, Prince August William an
! Prince Oscar are unknown. The fo
mer crown princess is sjreported to b
staying on Rugen Island.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-07-19
WILSON AND COX TALK
ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN
After the Interview President Says
Their Views Accord Relative to
League of Nations.

Washington, July 18.-(By The
Associated ss).-Complete agree
ment on the league Of nations ques-
tion and unity in their partys cause
was declared today by President
Wilson and Governor Cox Ohio,
Democratic presidential candidate,
after a conference at the White
House.
Meeting for the first time since the
San Francisco convention, the Presi-
dent and the governor together
with Franklin d. Roosevelt, the vice
presidential nominee, spent an hour
on the south porch of the executive
mansion, discussing the league and
other campaign issues. All three
afterwlrd issued formal statements
yoicng solidarity of purpose. None
made reference to recently pub
Hshed reports that the chief eXecu-
tive and the presidential candidate
were far apart on the league
issue.
The President declared that he and
Governor Cox were absolutely one
with regard to the great issue Of
the league of nations" and that the
nominee 'is ready to be the cham
pion of the honor of the nation and
the secure peace of the world" The
party choice, the President added,
will have the vigorous support of
an absolutely united party, and, l am
confident, also, Of an absolutely
united nation
Governor Cox, declared in his
statement that he and Mr.. Wilson
were agreed as to the meaning and
suficiency OF the party platform and
the duty of the party in the face of
threatened bad faith to the world in
the name of America" He declared
that he would give all his strength to
the promises made by President VIII
son to those who sacrificed in the
great war.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-07-19
MOUNTAINEER POLES
BEATEN BY BOLSHEVIKI
Russians Occupy Ida Fifty Miles
South Of Wilma and Continue
Advance

Warsaw, Sunday uly 1S.-The oc-
cupation of Ida, so miles south OF
Wilma, by the Bolsheyiki after severe
fighting, is reported in the commune
qua issued by the war Office today
In southern Polesia the Bolsheyiki
have driven out the Polish mountain
GERS and have occupied the village OF
Dabrowic.
Strong Bolsheviki attacks have
been repulsed around Hunsiatyn and
Arzmonac and in the region of Dubno
The Bolsheviki are reported to be
for a drive on Koyel.
London uly 1S,-The BolsheViM
according to the Sunday Moscow com
munique are energetically pursuing
the Poles southwest of Wilma.
In the direction of Ida and Bar
'anoyitshi, the Bolsheyild say they
have reached important points east
ward of Baranoyitshi
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-07-19
CASE Of TOO MUCH
WALL LINGFORD IN
SATURDAY CAME
Bennington Unable to Find
Green Island Pitcher
WON FROM BEAVERS Is TO 5
George Wheeler, Who Caught for Ben.
nlneton's First "Pro" Team,
Here Saturday.

Bennington lost and won in the
weekend baseball games at Allen A
field. Saturday afternoon the home
team was beaten by the Knights OF
Columbus Of Green Island by a score
OF to /. Sunday Bennington de-
feated the Beavers of North Adams
Is to 5.
The Bennington boys were out
cassed in Saturdays game. Dockum
had poor control and hit fairly hard,
particularly in the fifth inning when
Green Island punched four hits Dur.
ing this stanza Docaum made a pair
OF wild heaves and pair of ground.
Iers went through short. The five
runs scored by Green Island In this
period were more than enough to win
the game.
Bennington played good defensive
ball in spots Polly" Greenwood
pulled down two difficult fly balls in
the early part Of the games and Miner
covered the dizzy corner like a yeter-
an Some OF the hot grounders that
were shot into this territory were
hard to handle but the ball was clean
ly delivered to first base without a
slip,
F. Walingford, who pitched for
Green Island, had the game in hand
from the start Three widely scat,
tered hits was the best that Benning
Iton could do with his twisters.
George Wheeler, who caught for
the first professional team maintained
in Bennington nearly dozen years
ago, was behind The bat for Green Is
Hand. He is much heavier than when
he played here and his wing has
lost some Of its power He caught
a good game, however and was fast
on the bases The score:
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-07-19
General Woods First Battle.

When Geronimo, the last Of the
great Apache chieftains, began mur-
dering American women and most
hideously torturing American children
In New Mexico and Arizona, Leonard
Wood, then an army surgeon, eXchang-
ing his surgeons scalpel for a rifle
became one Of a famous little com
pany which chased the monster over
the sandy and. burning plains Of the
Southwest and northern Mexico, and
did not deSist until the enemy surren-
dered. The reports Of Generals Law
ton and Miles witness to the healthy
minded zeal which Wood manifested
toward the barbarans who wreaked
their sayagery on American women
and children; and the fNct that Wood
received that greatest of all military
distinctions for his efficient bravery
in this campaign--the medal of con
gress-ls testimony OF the same kind
Burton J. Hendrick in the Worlds
Work.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-07-19
PROF. ArHEARN's ADDRESS
Enjoyed by Large Audience at the
Methodist Church.

Prof Walter S. Athearn, dean of
the College Of Religious Education of
Boston University, spoke last evening
at the Methodist church. He analys'
ed in his address and diagrammed on
Ia blackboard the processes Of mind
development from babyhood to ma'
turity, the age Of twentyfour.
After showing how the mind rip
ems into certain activity and thought
at certain years, the professor ex-
planned how the public school fitted
It's program OF secular education to
the mind. Then he demonstrated
how the new movement in religious
education and the graded Sunday
school lessons were a scientific meth
cd of adapting the material of the
Bible and other religious knowledge
to the various stages of development
.of the mind.
He said that the argument for the
graded public school and the graded
Bible school alike was Gods graded
ch lid. The church was wellhlled as
the Baptist church united its service
with the Methodist
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-07-19
GEN. BUEL0W'S SON KILLED
Shot in Attempt to Escape from Rou-
manian War Prison, Says
Budapest Dispatch.

Vienna.-A son of General Buelow
of the German army has been killed
while trying to escape from Roumanla,
where he was a prisoner of war, ac-
cording to a Budapest dispatch.
Two Roumanian soldiers had been
bribed by young Buelow to take him
and companion across the Maros rtg-
err it is said. When the boat was in
midstream the soldiers attacked their
passengers.
The assaiant Of Buelow's comrade
was disabled, but in the struggle the
boat was capsized. While struggling
In the water Buelow was shot dead.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-07-19
-FOUR SOLDIERS
h.
HOME VETERANS
ROBBED Of MONEY
Thief May Have Gotten Away
with $50
NIGHT NURSE SUSPECTED
Charles Garrison and Wife Disappear
ed from Institution Early Sun
day Morning.

-Four veterans at the Vermont sol.
Idiers' home were the victims Satur-
day night Of pickpocket who may
have gotten away with $3.50. One Of
1.-THE men robbed says that he had 800
In his pockets when he went to bed,
another had $40 and the other two
had smaller sums A man, who gave
! his name as Charles Garrison and
who had been employed at the home
as nurse, has disappeared and is
suspected Of having taken the veter,
JAMS money.
Sunday morning the veterans who
| had been robbed reported their losses
to the superintendent who at once
notified States Attorney Collins M.
Graves. Officers, however, were un-
able to find any trace OF the suspect
ed Garrison who has undoubtedly
put some distance between himself
and Bennington.
Garrison came to Bennington from
Poultney and was accompanied by a
woman who he introduced as his wife.
He made his arrangements for EN-.
lployment as nurse at the home over
the telephone and in response TO a
newspaper advertisement. The couple
arrived at the home Thursday noon
and they were assigned to a room on
lie third floor Garrison went on
duty at noon and was released by the
IOther nurse at midnight
Suspicion was not directed toward
Garrison when the thefts were first
/ discovered for the reason that he was
! supposed to be in bed. Later in the
forenoon, however, one of the veter.
ans who said he was unable to sleep
and who was sitting in the smoking
room reported that he had seen Gar
rison and the woman leave the build
ing at 1.30 o'clock Sunday morning.
They were carrying their hand bag
gage, the veteran said.
/ Garrison and the woman were
found TO have left their room some
thine during the night Some of their
personal effects We're left behind in.
/ Icluding steamer trunk which was
lnearly new and number of toilet ar.
Iticles. There is not much of any.
Ithing in the trunk.
! II Garrison and the woman left the
home at 1880 daylight saving time
they could have taken either of the
night trains and could have gone
NOR h or south,
Garrison is described as a man OF
medium height weighing about $50
pounds His hair and mustache are
dark The woman stated that she had
applied for employment at the Put
nam house but had come to the con
clusion that she would wait until
1.-The nurses home at the hospital was
completed and then enter the training
lclass for nurses.
The officials at the home have made
every possible efior, to guard the vet
erans against theft of this nature
They have constantly advised the old
soldiers not to carry more than small
sums on their persons The inmates
like most people, however, prefer tC
have their money where they can put
their hands upon it,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-07-19
Arabs Bow to Airplanes.

Some Of the most modern kinds of
warfare have been used in regions
where modern civilization had hardly
penetrated before. 1t Is an interest
ing fact that the Arab, who had re
NAMED unconquered while all the
great empires Of the world rose and
fell, is at last succumblng before the
airplane. He has never admitted al
Iegance TO anyone but Allah and him
self, and has threateped the lines OF
communication Of all the empires
Babylonan, Persian. Greek, Roman
and British. Even at the height Of
their power they could not oyertake
his swift horses when he returned to
the desert after a raid.
But even the Arab horse has nc
chance against the airplane. British
planes are now able to protect all
parts of the line from Suez to India
The French have been using aviators
whose nerves went to pieces on tht
western front to chase the wild tribes
men in the interior of Algeria. An(
the Mad Mullah," when recently he
began to preach another Mohammedar
holy war, was routed by an expedition
Of British and Italians, who used bou
alrplanes and tanks.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-07-19
Woman "caIIedD Enver Pasha.

Enyer Pashq, the most autocraic
and arrogant of the committee of un-
ion and progress, was obliged to listen
to the protests of Turkish women
against the large number of casualties
in the Dardanelles and Bagdad cam,
paigns. He called together the be-
reayed mothers and reminded them
that their sons were among the faith
full in paradise, and that they should
be proud and pleased to be the moth
ers of such brave patriots.
One poor mother, bent with age and
beyond caring for herself, dared to cry
back to the man more feared by Turk
and Christian alike than anyone else in
the empire: "Marshallah, effendi MAY
It please God, your excellency), that
your mother may soon have this same
pride and pleasure that we haye."--
Barnett Miller in Asia