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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-06
Wn the DAYS News

Oscar w. Underwood of Alabama
the new Democratic leader in the
United States senate is 5S years old
today, having been born May G. 1862,
at Louisville Ky. Although serving
his first term in the senate, Mr.. I'M
derwood is a Veteran in the public
service He has been cited as the
strangest example in modern times OF
a thoroughly modest man getting
reputation without going after 1t. For
sixteen years he sat in the lower
house OF Congress doing splendid
work and never getting his name into
the papers. Finally the crash came,
the democrats carried Congress, and
from sheer merit and nothing else the
quiet man from alabama was made
floor leader and put in charge OF the
party's tariff bill, And he so acQuit
ted himself that within month he be-
came national figure and in 1912
he loomed as formidable candidate
for the presidential nomination. The
Senator is graduate Of the Univcr.
sity of Virginia and lawyer by pro-
fession.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-06
NORTH WHITE CREEK

Miss Celia Morrissey spent Satur-
day in Troy.
Mrs. Amer,a Baldwin, who has
been i'll with grip is Slowly imp oy-
ing.
Quite few from here attended
the dance Friday evening at Center
Cambridge.
Mrs. Charles Bennett is on The SEX
list and under the care of DR. Leon
ard of Cambridge
Nh and Mrs. Wilmer Luke Ct
Schenectady visited his parents, M.
and Mrs. William Luke recent ,
John Luke and sister, Mrs Warren
Whitcomb spent Sunday with Mrs,
Robert Hamilton of Center Cam
bridge.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-06
From Here and There.

Coal prices in Berlin are 1900 per
cent higher than before the war
Great Britain has some 10000 troops
still stationed in France as guard to
dumps of war material.
a huge buffalo with enormous horns
is conspicuous in prehistoric rock
drawings recently found In Algeria,
Although on y two peaks of the Alps
are more than $4,000 feet in height,
there arc dozens exceeding 1000 feet,
An English medical scientist recon-
mends a visit to a museum as an ex-
cellcnt remedy for scholars brain
lag,
Irelands greatest bog is the Bog of
Allen, which has an area of about
100000 acres, aud extends into four
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-06

Today is the tenth anniversary of
the accession of King George V. to the
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-06
Today's Events l


Today is the tenth anniversary Of
the accession of King George Y. to the
throne.
The Louisville May Music Festival
one of the most notable in the middle
west, will be opened today.
New York State delegates to the
Democratic national convention are to
meet for conference al Albany today.
Democrats of Connecticut are to
meet in State convention today to sell.
ect their delegates to the national con
lyention.
The four delegates-at-large from
Colorado to the Republican national
convention will be named at State
convention at Pueblo today,
3, Rhode islands ten delegates to the
Democratic national convention will
be dec ded upon at State and congress
sional conventions in Providence to-
day.
Miners, officials and operators indie
ated after participation in the strike
of the bituminous coal fields last No
vember, are to be arraigned in the
United States District Court at Indian
apolis today.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-06
Never Saw Anything Better

For colds that hang on" and for
lingering coughs that 70 low the flu y ,
there is one safe family cough medi-
cine sold from the Atlantic to the Pa
ciic, Mrs. A. b. Griffith, Box 15i, An
drews. Ind, writes Last white my
family all had the 'Gu' TIED Foley's
Honey and Tar and never saw any
thing better From now on | VIII not
be without it in the house Don't let
children suffer from Group or Whoop'
ing cough when this reliable remedy
can be so easily procured, Sold
Everywhere.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-06

says: Il calcuate that ] have slept in
at lea9t'S 5000 beds during my forty odd
years on the road, and | have slept
well in them all.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-06
SLOW
DEATH

Aches, pains, nervousness, diff
Guilty in urinating, often mean
serious disorders. The worlds
standard remedy for kidney, liver,
bladder and uric acid troubles
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-14
TO PERPETUATE
 NAMES OF MANY
 SUNKEN VESSELS
Cunard Line to Use Old Names For Some of Its
 New Boats

Liverpool, Feb. 14.-Names of sev- eral large Cunard ocean liners sunk by enemy submarines during the war are to be perpetuated in new vessels now under construction, it is an- nounced by the Cunard Company. The company has nearly 500, 0,000 tons of passenger ships now building.
 Of the vessels whose names are given none will approach the size Of the -Mauretania or Aquitania, but they will be big liners of intermediate type, ranging from 520 to 600 feet in length. They will have spacious accommodation for passengers, and will also be able to carry large quan- titles of cargo.
 There are four ships of the 600- foot class, the Franconia, the La conia, the Scythia, and the Samaria. There is only one vessel under con- struction in the 550-foot class, the Iii b4e1lia, a name which appears for 1 the first time among the company's | ships.
 l The 52O-foot class comprises seven vessels, the AIaunia, Ardania, Au. | rania, Ausonia, Ascaria, Albania and Antonia Of these the first five arc
 the names of vessels lost in the war
 and the Antonia appears for the frs time.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-14
HUN TARGET
 RANGE WILL BE
 USED FOR FARM

American Headquarters. Cob1enz, Germany, Feb 14--Am old target range where German axEny recruits were taught to shoot and where young Germans were drilled in the use of the baypnet Is soon to be turned over to the Americans for agricultural purposes as part of a plan of the American forces in Ger many to teach farming to soldiers desiring to take up such 8 course The old range ts near Fort Alexander, on a hill overlooking Coblenz on the Rhine. Agricultural text books have been ordered from Washington
 A new educational program being worked out at army headquarters embraces opening of unit schools of instruction for every distinct organ faztion of the American Forces in Germany. T9aus the Motor Transpdrt Corps is to have a school for auto mobile mechanics in Metternich, neal Coblerz, the signal corps will have . school for the study of telegTahpy and wireless, the quarterrnaster! corps will have a school for cook and bakers, and the engineers vii have a school of tE1eir own at som point near Cob5enz. It is planned to have uraat schools at first and great central school in Coblenz later
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-14
COngre ess Fails To Progress IIl
 Past IA Months
No Constructive Legislation During That Time Rumor Gains Strength That Body Will Adjourn In June and Let Work Go Until Next Christmas-No Word On Reducing Taxes

Washington, Feb. 14.---It has been IA months since 8 piece of construct i've legislation came out of the halls of Congress and those who qualify as statesmen and the other type known here as legislators who will have to answer to an electing country next fall are beginning to ask how much longer it will be before Congress gets on the job. One rumor here, that is growing daily stronger, makes the bold statement that 1t will be exactly 25 months from the day the last Democratic Congress adjourned until the next piece of real legislation may be expected.
 For months the rumor has pervad- ed the hooks and crannies of the old Capitol building that this Congress intended to do nothing. This has been cut down several times as only partly true, in view of the circum- stances confronting both houses of our legislative body. In the past few days, however. there have been cer- tain ominous signs and now from some of those who know what is going on in Congress comes the news that it is the intention of the present Republ-
 
 June and Jet the legislation on the
 calendar wait until next Christmas rolls around.
 So far just two real measures have come before Congress, the one the railroad bill and the other the army reorganization bill. In addition there is the sedition bill in the ofhng, but not yet completed by the committee. Nothing has been done on the living cost, the peace treaty or in the inter- est of the returned soldiers. A mum Der of political investigations have
 been conducted, costing somewhere in excess of $77,oOO,00O, a number of appropriations have been made cost ing money, and after boaSting of all they had saved the Republicans have and are now engaged in passing further deficien2y appropriation bills
 costing more money. They were go- ing ito reduce tho faxes. So far they have spent money, and moro money They have wasted monay in two long drawn out session of id1eness and po- 1itiica1 investigations, but no word about reducing taxes
 In its present state the railroad biI | may be hagg1ed ovet drBti next sum l mer and then put on the shelf unti 1 December. The Senate has given il 1 on It's anti-strike clause and tn, | House conferees have tried to bint 1 the House to a support of the road! | for two years to come. The RepubH 1 can conferees betrayed the House ant l. forsook their Democratic colleague ] on this provision and there is stronl i evidence that the body of the Hous. | will never agree to the arrangement. | This would mean that tEe Hous
 would drag the bill out endlessly o
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-14
USE AIRPLANES TO MAKE SURVEY
 OF N. Y. STATE
Topographic Maps To Bf Revised from Birdseye
 Photographs.

Albany, Feb. 14.-That the states topographic maps may be revised through the use of surveys made in airplanes by the federal authorities is the statement made by State En- gineer Frank M. Williams. This state ment was made almost simultaneous ly with the announcement that S2O,- GOO will be asked of the legislature to conduct the states part of the Uni ted States Geological Survey.
 According to the information re- ceived by MT. Williams, the United States Engineering Corps, in 1918, by working in conjunction with the air service, succeeded in photographing approximately 50 per cent of Long Island. By taking additional photo graphs of a few smaller areas not in cIu6ed in existing views, 1t would be possible to readily revise the maps covering the Brooklyn, Oyster Bay, Hampstead, Northport, and Fire Is- land sections.
 State Engineer Williams has already directed the division engineers in the eastern, western and middle divisions of the state to start relocating the features on the maps at points where changes have been made as the re- suit of the construction of the barge canal There are, however, many sec tions in the state where conditions have changed since the survey has been made and 1t Is believed that at these points the most economical method of revising the topographic maps Is by means of aerial photo graphs.
 H. c. Birdseye, chief typographical engineer of the U. S. Geological Sur vey, says that the greatest problem -io1 El that of obtaining a sufficient number of aviation fields and landing sta tions It is imperative before the authorities set out to make the air plane survey that stations be prop erly distributed so that it will be pos sibIe to reach all sections to be cov- cred.
 Mr. Birdseye believes that these stations should bel coated in every block 100 by 100 miles in size or thereabouts so as to cover an area of 10000 square miles. In the case of the New York Survey, however, he suggests that eight or ten stations be established, or one to every 5000 or 5000 square miles To establish these there should be complete cooperation between the state, its cities, towns and communities, the specifications for the field, etc, being supplied by the United States Air Service
 The estimated cost of photograph ing, revising and printing the topo- grapic maps in editions of 1000 cop ies has been placed at between $5 and $1o per square mile This, however can be reduced as the work progress eS
 -'~ The state of New York Is now be ing completed, approximately 90 pel cent of it's area being covered MT Williams believes that if $2o,0Oo is set aside to continue the work this year, and for each thereafter, the federal authorities will expend a like sum and the work can be finished in 1922
 The areas remaining to be surveyed consist of parts of St Lawrence Franklin, Delaware, Su11icvan, Catta- ragus, A1legany, Steuben, Erie and Wyoming counties.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-14

send it again to weeks or months of conference.
 The President asked for this 1egisla- ton so that he might return the roads the first of the year just past. Decem- Der came and Congress had refused to give him the needed legislation. NOW he will return the roads in March There is far from any assurance that Congress, even after the stay granted them by the President, will have the necessary legislation ready.
 The new military bill, demanded as the great military lesson of the last war, would naturally have been or primary importance even in the special session which began last May, but there was no action on it. Now it is in. conference tied up over the principle of universal military train ing and the size of the army, The House and Senate are about to con- sider the conference report with every evidence that this measure is also doomed to long debate and argu- ment. In addition the Senate is about to take up a>-in the League of Ma tions
 With the country suffering from at tempted political violence and anarchy
 Congress was asked to pass sedition legislation that would enable the
 Justice Department to properly han dle those who would overthrow the
 government by force. Instead they framed a measure that would subju- gate all principles of human liberty It will be months before such a meas l ure can be ref1tted and made pre- | sentable for passage.
 As for the soldiers, Congress has 1 within the past week seen fit to pas. a bill granting 60 days pre- eference tc 1 former service men for making entries on public lands before they opened tt the general public. This piece of leg i is;latfon, introduced by Representative 1 Ferris, chairman of the Democratit 1 Congressonal Committee, and approv 1 ed by the Secretary of the Interior, 1: 1 the first measure passed in the direc l interest of all the men who served
 in the war since the $60 bonus wa l given them by a. Democratic Congres 1 two years ago.
 l With national legislation standini
 as it does; with no measure even con | ceived for relieving the tax burdel l and with the expenditure Af publi
 moneys being piled up by its neglec of action and waste, the present Con SreSS Is now making preparations get away in June. Of course, 1t
 members will want to go to the DO litical conventions. Then the Repub
 lican leaders figure they can fram another program during the summe
 of what ought to be done for tn l country and come back next De cenlber, after the Presidential cleo l tions, to do what they please withou
 the fear of doing something tha might influence these elections.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-14
DISCOvERER OF OLD MANUSCRIPT
 DEAD IN LONDON

London, Feb. 1.-The death is re- ported of Mrs. Margaret Dunlop Gib- son, who in 1896, after six visits to Mount Sinai, brought to England the first leaf of what is known as the Hebrew Ecclesiasticus.
 With her twin sister, Mrs. Agnes Lewis, she shared tho distinction of discovering in 1892 the famous Syriac pa1impset of the Gospels in the monastery on Mount Sinai. It was very dirty, and it's leaves were nearly all stuck together, through their hav- ing remained unturned probably since the last Syrian monk had died in the monastery centuries before. The sisters took about 400 photo graphs of it When they returned to England it was identified by Profes- sors Burkitt and Bensley of Cam bridge University as the Curetonian manuscript one of the oldest yer sions of the Gospels extant in any l language. Another expedition was sent to Sinai and the text was copied Its publication of the text tn 1S94
 marked an epoch in the history ot | Biblical criticism.
 | Mrs Gibson was the widow o1 1 Reverend James Young Gibson, a noted translator of CervanteS poetry
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-14
BODY OF CoRTEz FOUND IN CHURCH
 IN MEXICO CITY
Hundred Year Search Final ly Brings Forth Definite
 Proof.

Mexico City, Feb. 14.-After almost one hundred years of search it now appears that the remains of Herman do Cortez, Spanish conqueror of Mex ico, have been definitely located in the Temple of Jesus, one of the many Catholic churches in Mexico City.
 A gold key. which can unlock the marble vault containing the dust of 'eThe Conquistador'', and the funeral garments in which he was buried, Is said to be in possession of Sonora Borneque de la Barra, resident of Paris, and efforts are being made to obtain it.
 Newspapers here are agreed in crediting the testimony of a direct descendant of the keeper of the Hos pita1 of Jesus, an annex to the tenn pie of that name.
 He says he has documentary evil dencc that in 1923, when patriotic zealots planned to taKe possession of Cortez's remains, they were saved from violation and later returned to their resting place beneath the main altar of the temple.
 It was this sequestratfon in 1928 that caused the students to conduct a search for the hiding place, many asserting it was in old Spain and i others in Naples, Italy. The restlessness which drove Cor | tez, Spanish courier, to New Spain and culminated in the conquest o1 Mexico, from the Aztecs in 1521, af- i ter one of the most brilliant cam pagins in all history, apparently con | tinued after his death near Seville l Spain, in 1547.
 He was buried in the chapel of z monastery near Seville, put in 1862 in accordance with his will and b! order of his son, the remains were | taken to Mexico. not to the Mexico City suburb of Coyoacan, which hai been his headquarters during tn
 siege of Mexico City, but to tn
 monastery of St. Francis in Tezcuco another village near the Mexican cap ital.
 The remains were moved again il 1 1929, this time to the Church of St
 fer was accompanied by the most la
 wish religious pomp and ceremon
 ever seen in the country. l In 1794, the remains were agai
 given a new resting pIace-the Hos
 pita1 of Jesus of Nazareth, an insti
 tuition founded and endowed by Cor
 tez.
 It is in this hospital, or churcT
 as it is now, that the historic cryste coffin, secured by bars and plates C
 silver and containing the dust C
 Cortez wrapped in linen, embroidere
 with gold, was deposited
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-14
EVERYBODY BUYING DIAMONDS

So read 8, newspaper headline. It tells how though diamonos are be- coming higher priced every year, yet it was never so easy to sell them. The wage earner without a dollar saved, is just as likely to buy one as anybody. In his bouyant heart he knows he Is going to get there. He thinks his bride will then look queer, in her automobiles and furs, if she has no diamond to match their lux ury.
 There is something rather fine in this spirit of self confidence. Yet there is a certain falseness of basis when a young couple are betrothed with a diamond ring, and yet are paying for furniture on the install ment plan, as most often be the case Buying expensive things, when there is no reserve on hand for sickness no nest egg of future capital accumu- lating, has an element of insincerity It is trying to pass for something diff ferent than what you are.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-14
Can Live Like King IIl
 Berlin On Small Amount
$5,0o0 There Buys More Than $3oOOO Here - PeoV
 Flocking There to Live

Bersfn, Feb 14-In Berlin today one can live like a Fifth avenue mil nonaire yet not spend more than modest resident of the Bronx One can live comfortably for a year on what it costs to spend a gay week at Atlantic City Thousands of hard-up Russians, SEedes, Danes, Dutchmen. Norwegians, Portuguese and Turks are Hooking into niracu1ousIy cheap Berlin
 This Is all due to that mysterious thing, foreign exchange. Today In Berlin you can buy for s5,0O0 more housing, food, service, clothes. shoes, manufactured goods, motor cars and recreadons than you could buy there with $20, ,0e0 before the war And, with $5,oeo, you can buy more of the commodities mentioned than you could buy with 30,o00 in the United States.
 The German mark collapse has
 gone much further than the most pessir1astic German expected When you change American dollars into
 German marks you get about twelve
 times as many marks as you did
 before the war This collapse of the mark exchange is even more stikine than the collapse Of the Russian ruble, for, whereas Russia is bank rupt and you can buy nothing witt
 Russian rubles, Germany is still sol vent and the mark has a very higf buying power. Yet further down tht l mark exchange goes.
 l In peace time the marks par va1ut
 was 2S.2 cents, United States cur l rency; which means you could bu, l one mark with a little under 24 cents | in 1917, at the lowest quotation o I the year, a mark could be bought fo 1S.41- cents.
 l Export prophets declared that l could not possibly go lower. But il February, 1919, the mark could b l bought for 9.90 cents; ir July fo 6e5 cents, and on December 4 las for fraction over 2 cents. Rough ly, one can reckon a mark as wort
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-14

one-hftieth of a dollar instead of one-fourth-
 This is a tragic circumstance for the German who wants to buy things in America; for the American who wants to buy things in Germany, or live in Germany, it works quite the other way For, although the cost Of living and prices of all commodities have risen heavily in Germany since the beginning of the war, they have not risen anywhere near as much as the dollar and the other undepreciat- ed units of foreign currency have risen.
 The cost of living in Germany has ueb1ed since 1914, but, as an Aneri- can gets twelve times as many marks for the dollar as in 1914, it follows that the cost of living in Germany is about One-fourth what it was before the war and about one-eighth what it is in America And there are certain things, such as apartments, which, in Berlin today, cost not much more | than one-fftieth of what they cost in any first class American city. Berlin is the city where the Ameri- can with S1,500 a year, or any other foreigner with the equivalent, ca1 1 live with his family in d big apart 1nent in a good street, keep two or | three servants, eat as well as 1t is possible to eat in Germany, cloths | himself tolerab1y, amuse himself vio- 1ently and, in general, live in wha1 | Europe usually calls an "upper mid de class way That is why. from | countries with high exchanges, es-
 pecial1y from Scandinavia, Denmark and Switzerland, people are flockins
 to Berlin Russians also flock there
 mostly men who have escaped iron | Soviet Russia with the equivalent of
 say, S5,000- On this they could live
 tolerab1y in Stockholm or Copea
 hagen for a year; after that the,
 would starve. By coming to chea1
 Berlin, they see themselves secured
 against starvation and guarantee:
 high comfort for at least five years
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-14
U. 5. TEACHERS
 BEING SOUGHT
 BY PHILIPPINES

Washington, Feb. 14.-To carry out it's new school programme, in volving an expenditure of $15 00o,- 900 in four ye;lrs, the Philippine gov ernment is seeking 15o American school teachers, including high school instructors, and specialists for nor nal school, commercial, agricultural and physical educational work
 Two-year contracts are required and applicants must be prepared to begin work with the opening of the Philippine school year in June, says the Philippine mission press bureau here.
 A general entrance salary of $1,2o0 a year with a per cent bonus is tc be paid, with higher rates for special qualifications. Travelling expenses tc Manila will be paid.
 Applications are being handled through the Bureau of Insular Al. fairs and the Civil Service Commis sion here.