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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-09-21

Or. A. NJ. Townsend, pastor OF the
Baptist church. has gone
East on an Important business trip.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-09-21

4 Prof L. f. Branch has returned from
his vacation spent In Chicago, Detroit
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-09-21

Another sizzling auto thriller. BY
the author of Wallace keid oisges'
hits, 1.-THE Roaring Road ana Ia
cuse My Dust"
A romance of love, business and
whizzing racers. And of numbering
motor trucks that helped make a
speed demon human.
ADAPTED from 1.-THE Hippopotamous
Parade" in the Saturday Evening
POST by Byron Morgan.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-09-21

he-touching story of youths folly and womanhood realities
Adapted 9TH" WomanTis Man., by Avery HopWood
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-09-21

T. o. Fuller, Jr., left for Shaw uni
versity, Raleigh, n. c., Monday night,
to resume his studies where his father
graduated.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-11
GOOD BOUTS PROMISED
Bennington Athletic Club Holds
Smoker This Evening.

The Bennington Athleaic club will
hold smoker this evening at Union
Hall Two local boys will appear in
the preliminary which will be called
sharply at $50 o'clock,
The main bout, a ten-round affair
will bring together Young Nelson of
Adams and Sailor Joe Young OF Bos'
ton. Nelson has been in Bennington
twice during the season but has not
yet been able to demonstrate how good
he Is. His bout with Hook Sol of AL
bany did not go single round. The
last time he came to Bennington the
bout was called off because the main
bout artists refused to go on because
of the small amount of gate money in
sight. Young is said to be a fast box
er and should make Nelson go his best
Spider Kelley, the local flyweight, is
matched with Young Kippey OF North
Adams in the semi-final. Kelley made
an excellent impression upon the North
Adams fans week ago when he ap
peared in semi.final in that city.
1t is expected that Shotsey Shana-
han of North Adams will be the third
man in the ring.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-11
NEW TROLLEY BILL
Gives Berkshire TO Trustees and
Makes Current SaiIabIe.s

North Adams, May 10.--The first
draft of a tentative trolley bill for re-
lief of the present trolley situation in
Berkshire county has been drawn by
the joint legislative committee on
street railways of which Representa-
tive William H. Woodhead of this city
is a member.
The bill in its present state pro-
vides for the appointment of three
trustees for five year terms by the
governor. One of these trustees is
to be from the northern end of the
county, another from the Pittsfield
district and third from southern
Berkshire. The bill provides that
Berkshire county be made a trans.
portation area and that the trustees
have charge OF the management OF
the street railway system fix fares
and schedules and have sole author
ity to issue notes bonds and mort
cages in connection with the system.
The board is to remain in charge
of the trolley situation until the
need for their services has passed.
They would under the provisions Of
the bill, be empowered to sell electric
current to individuals and corpora
tions.
The trustees cannot discontinue
any of the present lines of the Berk-
shire company or add any new lines
without the consent of the Berkshire
company but they are granted the
right to sell power and light to firms
and individuals as they see fit with
the APPROVAL of the public utilities
commission. II any deficit should be
met under the trusteeship Of the
Berkshire company an assessment
would be levied upon all towns and
cities in the county regardless Of
whether or not they are served by
the trolley company
Under the terms of the proposed
bill no debts of the Berkshire com
pany with the exception of the bonds
would be considered by the trustees.
The bill Is at present only in a
tentative shape and before it is fin
ally drafted It will have to be shown
| to the officials of the Berkshire
Street Railway company and receive
their assent Should the Berkshire
company approve the bill an en-.
deavor will then be made to have the
lpeople of the. county give their APP
proval Should the Berkshire com
pany withhold approval from the
bill it would not be presented to the
Legislature.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-11
100000 GIFT FOR
TEACHER TRAINING
Nearly 100000 More in Sight to
Provide for Construction Of
BUILDINGS

Montpelier, May 9.--Dr. NJ. b. Hill
Negas. commissioner of education, an
nounced today that the commission
has received a gift of 100000 to be
used toward a central teacher train.
ing school and that Prof. w. C. Bagley
of Columbia university will arrive
here soon to start the survey Of the
state relative to the location and
equipment of such school, The
gift of 100000 is conditional upon an
additional sum sufficient to secure
proper buildings, etc, being secured.
The entire amount will be something
like 100000 and the commission has
been assured of quite portion OF the
additional sum above referred to.
Prof Bagley is an expert on teacher
training and will recommend to the
board what location seems best and
the best plan for conducting the
school. Mr. Bagley's report will be a
large factor in the determining OF the
location and character of the institu-
tion, The purpose being to secure
the best service possible for the train
ing of the young people to become
teachers in Vermont.
A committee from the state board
of education has recently completed
an extensive survey Of the teacher
training instruction as carried on in
the different states, the primary pur'
pose of the trip being to investigate
plans aud methods for advancing the
rural schools of the state. Members
of the commission believe that the new
school should give its first efforts to
the rural school problems.
This matter was referred to the
commission at the last session of the
Legislature and DR., Hillegas has been
working on the plans for some time.
From time to time he has allowed his
audiences to know that there was to
be an improvement, but It was not un-
I'll Tuesday that the amount of the
gift was released for publication, nor
was the fact known that the remain.
ing 100000 is we'll nigh obtained.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-11
SOCIALIST ROW
IN CONVENTION
MAKES TROUBLE
Radicals Attack Conservatives
at Chicago
PLATFORM is ASSAILED
PLATFORM is AssAILED
HlIIquit Is Accused OF Trying TO Put
Platform Through Without
Discussion.

New York, May 10--Shouting for
the radicalism Of German, French,
Italian and Russian Socialism, the
Illinois delegation to the convention
of the Socialist party Of America to-
day launched concerted attack on
conservative" leaders and heir
platform demands for popular admin
istration of private property for the
benefit of all"
Following introduction of dec
laration OF principles" and party
plaform drafted under the leader
ship OF Morris Hillquit. the fight.
ing minority fron Chicago led their
states representatives into what
may develop into party warfare of
threatening aspect, il was stated 10
night.
j. Louis Engdahl, Samuel II. Hol-
land and William f. Kluse, al OF
Chicago, and the last two under SEN
tences for violation of the wartime
espionage act, captalned the radical
elements troops today. When the
"Hillquit platform" was submit ed
with the motion that II be adopted,
Holland gained the floor amid q
tumult Of waving hands and shouts.
81 don't like this platform at all,
he cried. 1T contains nothing but
nice phrases We have had no op-
portuni.y to consider it, Yet Hill
quit has the audacity to move its
adoption. What are they trying To
do th ow 1t down our throats."
Walter NJ. Cook OF New York and
Benjamin Glassberk OF Brooklyn
sided with the Illinois minority
caustically arraigning the New Yorl,
delegation for ''railroading methods.
Hllquit, given the floor when the
previous ues Jon was asked for
stated he was following ordinary
parliamentary rGes in moving. the
adoption of his ecnmittee's program
thus opening the way for debate on
it. He said fhe programs of the in
dependent Socialist parties of Ger
many, France, Italy and Russia had
been studied. with resultant elmi
nations until the tentative platform
submitted had been brought down "a
its y. esent size and shape ito meet
the needs of America in 1890
Htllquit, sharply arraigned the
casting of suspicion by one delegation
upon another without concre cause
as an act of obstructionists instead
of the radicals.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-11

ISSUE DANCER
FOR DEMOCRATS
Prompt Answer to Appeal of
the President
BRYAN WIRES HIS VIEWS
Mr.. Bryan Favors Ratification But
Would Accept the Senate
Reservations.

Washington, May 10.-Presdent
Wilson'S call to the Democratic party
to carry the treaty ratification issue
into the campaign drew expression to
day from two members of his own par
ty, William j. Bryan and Senator
Reed of Missouri, and also from SEN
ator JohG5on CT California, leader of
the Republican irreconcilable group
in the Senate treaty battle.
Senator Reed in statement de-
clared thai such platform would
mean for the Democrats the loss OF
every state north cf the Mason and
Dixon Mne and the breaking Of the
solid south" Senator Johnson also
in statement said he could respect
the Presidents consistent advocacy
of unreseryed ratification but had no
respect for men whose views shifted
with the varying popular winds" ;"
Mr.. Bryan, at his home Tn Florida, Ie-
affirmed his declaration for immedi'
ate ratification by joint action of Re
publican and Democratic treaty
friends in order to take the issue ou.
of the campaign.
THE Presidents demand that the
treaty shall be accepted exactly as
he brought it from Versailles is the
finest scheme OF premed.tated polii-
cal suicide yet devised" Senator Reed
said. ION such a platform as the
President demands, it is my opinion
that we will lose every state north
OF Mason and Dixon's line and that
the solid south will be broken"
Every member Of the Senate. ex
cept six, Mr.. Reed stated, voted for
one or more of the Lodge reserva-
tions denounced by the President.
The President or Democratic senator's
who voted for rservatcns will face
reputation at San Francisco, he ad.
ded.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-11
GASOLENE TAKES
Nl
ANOTHER JUMP
OIL ALSO IS UP
Standard Oil Company Increases
Its Price List
RETAIL PRICE WILL RISE
Total Advances In the Price OF Case.
lene Since January tst 10 u.
22 per cent. ,sG5

New York, May 10.--Motorists to.
day became the latest victims OF ad-
vancing prices.
The Standard Oil company OF New
York announced that the price of gaso
| lene to garages would be raised to 80
cents a gallon, an increase OF l 1-2
cents while independents were report
ed to be quoting gas" as high as 80
cents This. ii was said, would mean
that the retail price would be at least
81 cents. Today's advance brings ad-
vances since January to % per cent.
But price advances for oil products
were not confined solely to gasolene.
Prices on virtually all oil products con-
tinued to rise in various sections of
the country based on an extension OF
the long sustained demand.
Reports from the middle west and
south west as received in the financial
district, indicated further upward re-
vision of price schedules for practi-
cally all grades of crude and refined
products. In the drug and chemical
trades il was said that prices of oil by
products also were tending higher.
An authority in the oil trade was
quoted in effect as declaring that the
present domestic supply Of all oils is
far below demand and that the require
ments OF motor cars and trucks in
Parts of the United States call for
about SO per cent of present production
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-11
A Real Hair Saver
Found at Last Partisan Sage Shows
Resulta In Three Days.

II you are rapidly losing your hair
and fear badness, W. l.. Gokay wants
you to try Partisan sage at their risk.
1t will quickly stop the excessive loss
Of hair and make your hair and scalp
look and feel 100 per cent. better, or
money refunded.
Hundreds OF men and women have
written telling OF the wonderful re-
suits obtained by using Partisan sage.
People who we're getting bald say
they now glory in their beautiful hair.
Others who have had dandruff for
years and the head itched like mad
say they had a clean. healthy scalp
after just few applications of this
splendid home treatment.
No matter whether bothered with
falling hair, gray hair, stringy, dull,
brittle, oily hair, dandruff or itching
scalp, try Partisan sage today on this
money back offer. A large bottle is
inexpensive at drug stores every
where, and il your hair is worth saw
ing Parisian sage is surely worth try
Ing.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-11
POPULATION INCREASES
Hartford and Bridgeport, Conn, Make
Great Gains.

Washington, May TO- Hartford,
capital of Connecticut and third arg-
est municipality in the state, ranking
as fifty.first city of the country in 1910
has outgrown Nashville, Tenn, and Al
bany, forty-fifth and fiftieth cities, re-
spectively, in 1910. Hartford's popular
tilon, announced today by the Census
Bureau, is 13S,036, an increase of 1916
per cent, compared with an increase
of 23.9 per cent in 1900.
Nashville reported 1882, an in
crease of TO per cent, and Albany
1884, an increase of 13. per- cent.
Bridgeport, Conn, ranking above
Hartford as forty-ninth city in 1910,
reported 1882 people this year. an
increase of 43.7 per cent, thereby at
least retaining its rank as second Con-
nectlcut city
The 1920 population of New Haven,
first city of the state with 1S3,6O5 in
1910, has not yet been reported
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-11
SUBSTITUTE To
Be OFFERED D FOR
SOLDIER BONUS
Service Men in This Country TO
Get 81 Per Day
sl.25 FOR FOREIGN DUTY
Leaders In Congress Figure That
Change viii Reduce Cost
BY 100000, 900

Washington, May 10.--RepubIican
members of the House Ways and
Means committe agreed today to bring
in substitute for the soldier bonus
bill with the proposal for a one per
cent tax on sales eliminated as a
means OF raising the necessary funds.
Other tax provisions of the bill would
be extended over three years under
the new agreement.
Under the new bill compensation for
home service is reduced from $125 to
81 for each day of service while pay
ments for foreign service remain at
$l.25 day. Payments would be made
for service from April 6, 1917 to July
/, 1919. under the new bill instead of
from April 6, 1917 to January l. 1920
as under the pending measure.
Payments Of the cash bonus would
begin April /, 1921, and be continued
in IL quarterly installments. The four
options for the cash bonus. home or
farm aid, paid up insurance and tut.
tion for education, would have a 45 per
cent increase in value over the cash
bonus, under the substitute measure,
instead of being determined on basis
OF $175 day for each day of service.
The plan for reclamation of lands so
as to provide farms was changed in
the substitute bill to eliminate the
$1,000 loan and also to reduce the
authorization for carrying out the
scheme from s3O0,00O,000 to S250,O00
600.
The Republicans estimated that ap-
proximately s40O.000OO0 in the cost
OF the original measure has been eli
minated and that the remodeled bill
would call for total expenditure of
81, 1,400, 100000. Taxes levied by the
bill would become effective next De-
cember and would include the increase
on incomes, tobacco and real estate
sales and a new levy on steek and
grain exchange transactions.
Chairman Fordney of the committee
said tonight that the new bill would
remove much of the opposition in Re-
publican ranks resulting from the or
iginal proposal to raise some of the
revenues through a sales tax. The
new measure will be offered to the
House as compromise and Mr., Ford
ney said caucus probably would be
necessary.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-11
LAWRENCE STRIKE ENDS
Textile Engineers Went Back to Work
Today.

Lawrence, Mass, May 10-Union
stationary engineers employed in the
mills Of the American Woolen COM
pany here, who went on strike last
Thursday for a forty-eight hour week
and a minimum wage of from $40 to
$50 week, returned to work today.
No reason was given by Agent
James F. Hughes for the decision to
return and company officials said they
had not granted the demands in whole
or in part.
Engineers in several other textile
mills struck at the same time as those
employed by the American Woolen
company, union leaders placing the
number at about sixty, and the com.
pany officials claiming a much small
er number. 1t was estimated that
about one.half of those who walked out
were employed in the mills of the
American Woolen company.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-11
5RACkETT-cARPENTER
Detroit Young Man Marries Well
Known Bennington Girl.

Miss Helen NJ. Carpenter, only daug-
hter OF Mr.. and Mrs. ]. r. Carpenter,
and Elmer G. Bracket Of Detroit were
quietly united in marriage Friday, May
Z, at O'Clock in the Albany street
Methodist parsonage, Schenectady. by
Rev. Albert ID. Angel.
The young people were attended by
the brides mother, Mrs. Sarah Carpen-
ter and brother, j. Russell Carpenter.
Miss Carpenter is one of the popu-
lar young women of Bennington. She
is a graduate of the Bennington high
school and for some time has been EN-.
ployed as stenographer in the office of
the Black Cat Eextiles company.
Mr.. Bracket, through his various
visits to town, has made many ac-
quaintances here. He is employed by
the United States Tire company with
headquarters at the Morgan &c Wright
offices in Detroit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bracket have the best
wishes ia host of friends.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-11
BACK TO FRANCE AND
HIS ONE GLASS OF WINE
Noted New York Art Dealer Sells
His Business Because of
Prohibition.

New York, May Ill believe am
as good an American as lives" said
j.. l.. Audrain, noted art dealer, yes
terday. IT had hoped to end my bust
ness career and my days in this
country But l am so disgusted with
constitutional prohibition that have
sold my stock of goods and am go.
ing to France to live."
Audrain, senior member OF A. L.
Audrain & Co., art dealers, added EN-.
phatically;
u am not going abroad simply be
cause cannot get a drink when
want it. Never have drunk more
than a glass of wine at dinner. 1t
agreed with me and like it. But
now | cannot get it unless | am will
ing to become criminal, and tha. |
will not do IL never have a glass ct
wine until Gabriel blows his trumpet.
ut is the principaN involved and not
the thing prohibited that disgusts
me"
Mr. Audrain will sail for France as
soon as he can book his passage over
seas and get passport.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-11
TROUT FOR LAKE MANSFIELD
Special Order OF Yearings Raised at
Bennington Hatchery.

About six months ago the officials
of the Lake Mansfield Trout club
made arrangements with Fish and
Game Commissioner Linus Leavens
for quantity of yearling brock trout
to be raised at the Bennington state
hatchery.
The fishing at fhe clubs preserve in
the town Of Stowe has not been OF the
best during the past two years and
the officials determined 70 try the ex-
pertinent Of stocking with yearlings.
Last week w. B. Stiatton CT Mont
pelier, a member of the fish CON-
mitee OF the club, came to Bennilig-
ton and with S. B. Hawks, custodian
OF the hatchery, transported 500 or
the yearlngs to Stowe. The fish.
most of them between six and seven
inches long and some larger were car
red in 20 cans and made the difficult
trip in excellent shape. Every one
of the 600 fish except one reached the
preserve alive. 1t Is believed that
the single trout that failed to survive
was pinched in the can by piece Of
ice.
Some time this week the remainder
of the order, about seven hundred.
will be shipped to Lake Mansfield
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-11

At a dinner given in New York in
1912 to do honor to William Dean
Howells upon his 18th birthday, Will
liam Howard Taft, then President OF
the United States, lauded the guest
as the greatest living American
writer and novelist"
Beginning his first book, Poems of
Two Friends" just before the C.vil
War, Mr.. Howells had completed and
published II volumes at the time Of
his death, besides acting az editor of
various publications, crossing the
ocean eighteen times in search Of ma
terial for his moves, and writing ar
Ucles.
Born in Martins Ferry, o., in 1887,
he served his literary apprenticeship
as compositor, reporter and editor
on his fathers newspaper.
When 20 years o'd he travelled to
Boston to make the acquaintance Of
Longfellow, Hawthorne, Emerson,
Holmes and Lowell Though boy
among masters, he became their init
mate, learning their literary tradi-
tions and preserving many of them
throughout his long life.
At the age OF "a he was appointed
by President Lincoln as United
States consul at Venice. He COM
bined his consular duties with liter
AIRY wo.k. and produced his celebra :
ed book, ''Venitian Life"
Four years later, in 1865, he came
to New York with his wife, who was
Hinor G. Mead. of Vermont, and
whom he had married in Paris in
1852. For two years he wrote edi.
orials for the New York Nation, the
Times and the Tribune, and then
moved to Boston where as assistant
editor he began his association with
the Atlantic Monthly, succeeding
James Russell Lowell as editor in
1872. AT the age OF "A he retired to
devote himself to his novels, which
he produced for many years at the
ra'e of two year
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-11
SAYS SIMS FAVORED BRITISH
Attempt to Rob American Navy Of
Credit, Says Daniels.

Washington, May 1.-THE establish
ment of the North Sea mine barrage
was delayed six months because the
opinions of Admiral Sims and the Brit.
ish admiralty did not agree, Secretary
Daniels stated today in presenting
the second part of his counter charges
before the Senate Investigating Com.
mittee, and in which he is refuting
the claim of Admiral Sims that the
war was unnecessarily delayed
through the failure of the American
navy to fully cooperate at the begin
ming of the conflict
The secretary also charged that Ad-
miral Sims had attempted in his test,
mony TO rob the American navy of its
share of credit in this project and give
1t to the British
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-11
SCORES FOUR POINTS
mIddIebury College In Eastern Inter
Collegiate Track Meet.

Middlebury. May 11.-Middlebury
college scored four points at the sec.
ond annual Eastern Intercollegiate
Track Meet at Springfield Mass, Sat
urday Robinson finished second in
the 120.yard low hurdles and Potratz
took fourth in the hammer throw, with
throw OF 105 feet.
Darby was an easy second in one
heat OF the quarter mile. but was un-
able to obtain a place in the finals.
Tatro, the other entrant, also was
unable to score.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-11
WILSON'S POSITION
DENOUNCED BY TAFT
Declares That Presidents insistence
Is Making the Acceptance Of
League impossible.

Chicago, May 11.-Denunciation CT
President Wilson's appeal to the
Democratic party TO back the league
OF nations past as it was brought
from Versailles, as most destructive
letter" was the basis OF the state
ment made by former Pres. Taft on
his arrival here yesterday
81 am strong advocate of the
league" he said, "but why destroy q
whole instrument because you can't
get everything you want in it? The
president is playing the part OF a
great cbstructionist by taking the
step he has. He insists on retain
in features that make the acceptance
OF the treaty impossible"
Commenting on Atty Gen Palm.
er's nationwide May day scare, Mr.
Taft said that he didn't believe II
got him anywhere" He denied that
he was taking any part in Republican
politics